its like they have NOTHING to say!!! its incredibly boring when i switch on the radio and the song is going to be: moaning lovesong (come back to me, don't fly away, blah, blah, blah) or stupid crap based around a catchy hook (just about any song that isn't the first one) so we pay our big radio artists tons of cash, and THIS IS WHAT WE GET?!?!?! **** it, i'm going to listen to Bad religion.
2007-07-12 05:42:23 · 24 answers · asked by jimmy j 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Because it's mainstream radio. What else did you expect?
2007-07-12 05:52:09 · answer #1 · answered by I want my *old* MTV 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because nobody cares about the message anymore, it's all about what is catchy. If you can learn all the words and sing along to it the first time through even better. Mainstream listeners want to hear what they know. It sucks, but that's the way it is. At least you can always find solace in the bands you love that say something, such as Bad Religion.
2007-07-12 09:50:57 · answer #2 · answered by ♫ՖքØØķ¥♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The kind of creativity required for all the things we look for in songs can be quite exhausting.
Even the best in music history and the long lived bands find it hard to difficult to create music that is not eclipsed by their early works.
Art is supported by money. Starving artists tend to be really hard to get real commitment from so they don't usually get record deals.
As long as there is money in Hip Hop, dance music, country pop, etc... we will have to listen to it, unless we follow the advice of Karen (see above). I listen to SO LITTLE radio because I don't like the talk that I probably miss a lot of what's out there, good or bad.
Karen makes a great point, too.
2007-07-12 05:52:51 · answer #3 · answered by KenlKoff 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel exactly the same way when I turn on the radio. BORED!!!! The music sounds the same as well as the lyrics and even the singing. It's as if bad band members are cloning themselves to make more aweful music. Trust me this recipe seems to work well with teens, and the music industry wants to target young audiences that will fall for any bit of crap and call it music so they can spend their parents money on buying these cds. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!
2007-07-12 05:49:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because teens like it. They're brainwashed into liking whatever the radio offers. Then when we introduce them to songs with meaningful lyrics, they say its a load of crap.
And besides, if mainstream lyrics DID have some meaning, it would offend some people in some weird way.
2007-07-12 17:29:08 · answer #5 · answered by WTP 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude your amazing im so glad other people thing that mainstream is ****. Alright the simple answer to this one is that basically none of the mainstream rock bands right their own lyrics. So the people who write their lyrics are looking to appeal to the millions, they write simple lyrics that the American population will get, most of it now is based of "love" or now the big thing is emo. People who listen to mainstream rock bands don't want to have to figure out a story behind lyrics.
2007-07-12 06:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by macgradywade13 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bad Religion is a good answer. Also Muse, except not the newest one.
I would also suggest not listening to mainstream radio altogether. Get an account on Live365 (it doesn't cost anything if you don't mind interuptions) and there are tons of stations to choose from. It streams live on the 'puter and if your on it alot like I am, it's pretty cool.
2007-07-12 05:48:07 · answer #7 · answered by anonevyl 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
hell yeah to the bad religion. the problem with radio or pop music today is that it isn't art. music is, in its essence an art form. pop artists aren't trying to write a timeless work of art. they want something that will make them money and make them famous fast. many of them lack talent too. there is an underground movement of artists that approach music as art. i feel that i am part of it as a musician if only a small part. the movement spans all styles of music too so whatever you like you can find something. you just have to look harder and the radio probably isn't the place to start. i consider the greatest lyricists to be jim morrison from the doors and billy corgan from the smashing pumkins both of who were first and foremost poets
2007-07-12 06:42:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
music labels only promote short term suckers.. they don't persue long term deals anymore.. so the music is disposable.
the radio stations make money by satisfying advertisers
there are only 5 media companies in the USA.. so its the same song fr the same advertisers nation wide.
lastly.. 'cause of MTV
ohh yeah and 'cause **** us, what are we gonna do about it?
2007-07-12 05:59:44 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They stopped promoting actual talented musicians.. it's all Karoke and dance routines and unabashed lyrics refitted to riffs and melody's of past classic Rock & Pop music. They keep putting out a yearly CD, called, "Now, That's what i call music"...No IT'S NOT, thats what I call Crap!
Will S
2007-07-12 05:52:39 · answer #10 · answered by Boy Blue 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would say firstly that most, if not all, mainstream ANYTHING is ****. The popular stuff is crap for the idiot masses to feed on, because its the same thing they've been fed for generations. Not gonna change, anytime soon.
Secondly, right on about Bad Religion, brother. Any 21st Century digital boy knows good tunes.......
2007-07-12 05:49:02 · answer #11 · answered by Prop Forward 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋