I mean, r&b, rap, country. Its all sung to preorchestrated music by nameless, faceless musicians. Even old school rap had talent in the way it was spoken, country USED to have bands, r&b USED to not sing about "drop a d*ck off in that b*tch". Where has the talent gone? Why aren't people recognizing that they're listening to the same crap to a different beat? Why does the talentless get popular and rich, while the real talent claws its ways through bar gigs and birthday parties, mostly to fail and have to drop their dreams to survive?
2006-09-29 16:16:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The whole music industry went to hell when it was sucked up by corporate America and then given the final death blow by MTV. Quality gave way to quantity, imagination to mindless video, and compilations to one hit wonders. Music can go from its release to a television commercial before you even know who the artist is. The music awards have turned into just another nite out for the Hollywood jet set with more emphasis on clothing style and the winner of the latest reality talent(?) show. Commercial radio also got into the corporate mode, cramming the same 10 songs down your throat every hour on the hour. It's all about the money now. But if you dig deep enough, under the commercial crust, you will find the real stuff. Just keep digging!
2006-09-29 17:28:52 · answer #1 · answered by taboobiker73 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rock..needing talent? For awhile there about 2 years ago, almost all of the new rock was starting to become the same style different singer... They are starting to branch out again...
Each format has it's problem with that... something works and sells, and we get a wave of the same crap different packaging with a even prettier face
Country music, it depends upon what you are listening to.. Some is formulatic, but the same dull-ness came to country and some newer artists are trying to change the formula a little on mainstream country.... but the best non-formula music in country is actually the alternative country scene with artists from Texas leading the charge (in that they are the most visable of the scene such as Jack ingram and Randy Rogers band who are starting to crack the mainstream charts with a bite..)
The talent of today have some talent, but they have everything else that the machine things will sell..mainly the looks of a star.. some like rascall flatts on country music you can tell is almost engineered.
2006-09-29 18:00:30 · answer #2 · answered by gearbox 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rock requires talent to become popular because it is MELODIC singing boogie-woogie, and the melody has to be clever, because rock is about freedom! This is true of some R&B also.
But rap, country, and most gospel are about setting a mood as background music for people pretending to have a good time. Rap, for example, is really background music for reckless driving. Gospel is for standing and swaying in church. Country, I can't say, because there's only one country song, a whiny guitar number about being lonely, on the wrong side of the tracks, and hoping for pay day without any comfort from mother.
Music should be about quality but it isn't. That music continues to promote talent and invention amazes me, it's certainly the worst-taught and dullest dud of classes taught in public school. But music at the professional level is a vow of poverty.
Maybe we need a new dominant genre? South American techno?!
2006-09-29 16:26:09 · answer #3 · answered by urbancoyote 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The music industry discovered that a musician with a strong image and no talent will sell more records than a musician with a great deal of talent, and no image. That was the death knell for music as an art form. Nowadays, music has been reduced to a campy money-making scheme.
2006-09-29 16:23:30 · answer #4 · answered by Lunarsight 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because these producers and such at record lables know that idiot people will buy that sort of junk.
even some rock is crap. but mostly the music industry goes through phases. first it was the rap and r & b, then it was the rock, then pop, and now it's slowly coming back to rock and and hiphop/rap, whatever, and it's just the lables trying to promote what they think people will buy at the time.
right now, rock is big, pop rock is big.. and there are tons of bands and musicians out there who DO have talent, but to actually cut a record is hard to do unless you agree to the lables terms..
so that's why you hear alot of junk, because many musicians who start out, dont get the chance to make what they want to make because the head assholes decide for them
2006-09-29 16:21:07 · answer #5 · answered by seriously, yo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's sad to say but that is what sells today. Myself I prefer to listen to the older stuff. There are very few bands out now that I can listen to so I stick to what I know and like though my ears are always open ...listening for new talent.
2006-09-29 16:22:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How 'bout jazz and classical? Aren't they mainstream? I see your point, though.
2006-09-29 16:19:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rock rocks, always and forever.
2006-09-29 16:21:42 · answer #8 · answered by glimlach 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
not quite true!!!!
did you ever listen to EUROPE
2006-09-29 16:24:42 · answer #9 · answered by siona 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ummm, because your gay?
2006-09-29 16:24:38 · answer #10 · answered by xteamjacob 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋