Too Much Of Today’S Pop Music Is Miserable

[thesshhh]

If the music on the BRIT Awards are anything to go by, it’s a wonder the suicide rate hasn’t risen dramatically in the last two hours. Whatever happened to good tunes?

[RATTER15]

Im sure every generation has said exactly the same and will continue to do so.

[andy-hughes]

I find the majority of modern pop is formulaic, which is fine, no change there from any era of pop.

My personal issue is that the formula is not to my taste - anonymous girl singers in the main, making too many breath noises, singing down their noses, and the track is over-produced to within an inch of its life.

It feels like music made by a computer programme, which takes the basic ingredients and re-hashes them changing things very slightly, but basically making everything sound seriously similar.

I feel the absence of musicians who write their songs, craft them and hone them, record them, and take them out on the road to play live.

Now we have anonymous teams of producers churning out machine-produced music with utterly anonymous vocalists on top, there is no soul, no passion, and no feeling in any of it.

Until recently, you could identify a pop star by their look and sound, now any one of them could be any other one.

It only bothers me when I DJ and play that type of music, but the people it is aimed at sit on their phones and ignore me. It;s when I play the classics from the 60's to the 80's that people actually get up and dance.

There is a message there I am sure.

[Mamyalynne]

Write some new stuff and get it out there.

[maggiebee]

My mum used to despair because I loved Leonard Cohen back in the 60s.

[andy-hughes]

Mamya - // Write some new stuff and get it out there. //

If I could, I would!

I have met literally hundreds of genius songwriters and musicians and discussed their art with them, and remain utterly astounded at their gifts for melody and lyric, and putting them together in a way that chimes with millions of people around the world.

[andy-hughes]

Maggie - I have been a LC fan for approaching fifty years, and it is to my eternal regret that I never got to see him play live.

I still can't believe he is gone.

[vulcan42]

It's traditional that the previous generation dislikes the next generations music, only the reasons have changed. I don't like this generations music but for a reason never used before, I find it totally boring.

[maggiebee]

Agree AH, I would have loved to see him live. Play his CDs in the car most days.

[fender62]

the day the music died, resonates.

[Arksided]

I have to admit... I don't know any of them.

[Mamyalynne]

My reply was to the OP, should have been clearer.

I have mixed with musicians too, both players and writers - I haven't got sufficient talent to do it.

There is as much fun and lively stuff out there as there is dark and heavy.

One BRITS Award show doesn't say it all.

[Arksided]

JLS are reforming... come on we all have to be exited about that.

[Cloverjo]

I don’t know if current music is miserable. It all sounds a bit ‘blah’ and boring to me. (I know, I’m an oldie.)
The only singer I can distinguish from the rest is Adele, and she sounds like a parody of herself now.

I’m listening to the great David Bowie right now. Will there ever be anyone to reach his heights again?

[thesshhh]

Andy Hughes, these days LC stands for Lewis Capaldi. I got to see Leonard Cohen live, in Surrey about 10 years ago, but it was outdoors and chucking it down so not quite the dream gig hoped for

[thesshhh]

Lordy, Rod Stewart sounds horrendous at the BRITS right now. Some old singers need to know when to pack it in

[thesshhh]

I assumed Sir Rod would be getting a lifetime achievement award. If not, why have him on? The BRITS audience will surely not be enjoying this

[royfromaus]

''I’m listening to the great David Bowie right now. Will there ever be anyone to reach his heights again?''



I think Harry Styles is trying to emulate Bowie. I can only see a poundland copy though.

[Cloverjo]

Oh dear. I feel quite sad about that, royfromaus