Is Music Consuming Different These Days?

Its like no one care about the actual music. It's all about the lyrics, if that. Like no one says, "you heard that guitar solo or those drums?". That sucks. The whole buying albums thing has already been discussed.

I wish the actual music became the main thing again. I miss music that had specific beats, you know? Different snares and whatnot.

 

What?

 

Nice to know that people care about lyrics again.

 

Good one, haha

 

It's not a difficult question lol.

 

Yes. It's all about getting as I expensively as possible and not paying the musicians what they are worth. Oh wait...the latter hasn't changed all that much.

 

Sorry for all the spell errors, haha. A little...occupied.

 

Wow..you're associating with the wrong folk!! To me, the music ALWAYS did and always will come first. After that, it's overall sound quality of the recording and then we get to the TONE textures of every single instrument..from each guitar, to the snares, bass drums, cymbals...you name it...as well as what each instrument is actually playing..what makes the solo great even if it's a total of 3 notes or whatever...i think I left out vocal textures...what makes one vocal gret over another...what makes an IMPERFECT vocal BETTER than a "perfect" one....I can go on till I bore you dead, my friend.

But maybe it matters than I'm in my late 50's...maybe us Classic Rock geezers are more apt to care about such things..............

 

See that is what I'm saying. The younger generation doesn't care about what instruments are being played. The older generation pays attention to the actual music.

 

Where?

 

The older generation didn't either, when they were younger. At least your average music listener didn't.

Don't go by this forum...we're not normal.

 

I mean, I doubt my generation would've cared about Jimi solos, or the "Stairway to Heaven" solo.

 

Would that be Generation X, Y, or Z?

 

They might have, if they were born a few decades earlier. Or they could have cared about Donny Osmond or Debby Boone...totally depends on their musical tastes, and what they were exposed to.

 

It's all about the lyrics ? Really ?! I thought that the last time people actually cared about the lyrics was when Dylan wrote Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

 

While lyrical content does mean something to music listeners I wouldn't discredit a large population of music consumers as not caring about the technical aspect of instrumentation.

 

This made me think of the movie Music and Lyrics

 

Generalizing and painting with broad strokes never works for me. I know PLENTY of young people who very much care about the nuances of the actual music.

 

I don't either, and I'm older generation. I'll take mid-Sixties pop tunes, you can (more or less) keep the guitar heroes.

 

Mass quantities!

 

Please don't speak for our generation. You're only making us look worse.

 

If it's too loud, you're too...

Nevermind.

And I think musicianship is alive and well, if not in the Top 40. Listen to Holy Fire by Foals, or Singles by Future Islands, or even Meir from Kvelertak. Or Big Black Coat from Junior Boys. It's definitely still out there.

 

I actually think that you have a point there. Perhaps the fact that you can "make" music today without the help of a real music instrument has done something that has created this no care about instruments and musical settings, styles, sounds etc. so much. Or no care, that's perhaps a bit too much. Less care would probably be better...