Do the young people of today realize they are being sold a " bill of goods" by the music industry?

Question

It isn't necessary for people to accept the poor quality of music (?) being produced today. In the last ten years, the quality of top 40 music, rock and roll, whatever genre you want to call it, has steadily deteriorated. I want to be able to listen to good music on the radio again, don't you? I know you people have strong feelings about this, so let me know how you feel. And, please, let's have decent, intelligent responses to this.

Answer 1

Back in the laste 80's with the advent of Acid House the record industry realised that they didn't need to produce good music - they were able to sell music based purely on the culture to which it belonged.

Around the same time they started dictating radio station playlists. Prior to that most music that was played on radio was that which had been requested by the listeners, nowadays radio stations play what they're told to play. Our current local station has to play Scissor Sisters each and every hour of the day - I like the song but not 24 times a day.

Because genres such as RnB and Hip Hop are much cheaper to produce and require far less talent, the music industry pushes this type of music onto the listning public. If you go to websites that monitor the music people CHOOSE to listen to as opposed to what is played on the radio there's a big difference.

The current top 10 based on listeners choice is... Panic at the Disco, Gnarls Barkly, Postal Service, Muse, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Muse (again), Snow Patrol, Oasis, Death Cab for Cutie and Muse (yet again). Very different from the 'top 40' played on the radio.

The natural progression of music goes in approximately 5 year cycles (1950's = Crooners & Rock n Roll, 60's = Merseybeat and Flower Power, 70's = Glam and Punk, 80's = Electro and Dance) but since the late 80's this progression has been stifled by the music industry. Dance music in all it's forms should have died out in the early 90's to be replaced by whatever the mood dictated at the time.

Because the record companies are making more money than ever for doing less than ever things aren't going to change. You'll have to dig beneath the surface to find the music you like.