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- Oct 27, 2017
common, yet illogical argument. Music wasn’t better then and it isn’t worse now. You just don’t enjoy what the popular stuff of today. All that rock and hair metal? Yeah. That was the same pop music then that hip hop and club music is today. And just like now, there were people in our age group saying “music today sucks” while listening to older music rather than taking the effort to find acts they would enjoy.
I see what you're trying to say, but I disagree.
I'm in no way inherently predisposed to hate the "popular" music that comes out these days, if hard pressed I could probably even name a recent song or two I thought was alright... It's just that the main trend in music a few years ago was *literally* playing fart sounds into your ears while the people who produced it (presumably) laughed at the idiots of the day that ate it up. It's not my fault that while "popular music" has admittedly changed slightly, it still hasn't managed to get much better than that. (now it's people lazily mumbling random rhyming shit into your ears while barely audible fart music plays in the background) and I'm even that old.
Me thinking that kind of music is dumb is *not* the same thing as pre-boomers squawking that rock and roll was "The Devil's Music", and "you will go to hell if you listen to it/society will crumble because Elvis Presley is swinging his hips and singing 'black' music." I'm not passing any sort of moral judgement onto music today, or the people who enjoy it, I just happen to think it's mostly shit. But hey, if that floats your boat more power to you...