In my view, music is one of the most interesting concepts out there. It's just air vibrating, changes in air pressure that we perceive and react to. How beautiful is it that air vibrating has the power to not only change your mental state through mood and emotions, but also your physical state by changing your blood pressure and heart beat. Ever get goosebumps just by listening to music? This vibrating air can communicates ideas and thoughts to you without the use of any tangible language. It sounds corny, but I'm constantly blown away that there groups of people that get together for the sole purpose of creating sounds, just because we think that they're beautiful. That's the purest form of art.
And here you guys are, using this topic to trade bull**** insults to each other. Stop.
@Deco, I will tell you EXACTLY how it happened. It is due to a little chemical that is heavily overused and kills youngsters braincells. Talking about alcohol obviously. Oh and retarded TV cartoons like SpongeBob. But seriously I think that the music that people started listening to in clubs and stuff started degenerating along with the increase support regarding the idea of "getting smashed" or obscenely drunk 'till a person can not remember anything that happened while in that state as an awesome thing to do. People acting stupid like it is the best thing in the world to get like that, I simply can not understand it and never will. But the beats started reflecting more of a trance state where your brain doesn't really need a lot of function to "boogie", just bob your head and throw your fists up, so that even the most drunk person can do it while maintaining balance...
Deverz said:
It's nothing to do with cartoons, it's all substance abuse.
The beat in alot of older music matches a heart beat (Or so I was told) So does new "music"... when you've popped a few pills. And when you're high who cares about sounds
I don't think it has anything to do with alcohol, and certainly nothing to do with cartoons. Do you think that alcohol and drugs were not popular with young people during the 60's, 70's, 80's, or whatever era of mainstream music you like? Because all I can think is that Woodstock says hi. I think part of it is nostalgia, but part of it is also that only the best music of any given era is remembered. Today we're not exposed to the worst of the mainstream music from the 70's, where as today we're exposed to the all the music that the mainstream has to offer right now. In 30 years, they won't be playing the questionable hits from this era, only the best of it will be remembered.
I think part of it is also that the music has simply changed. I have nothing to back this up, but it's my pet theory that music is a disease that you catch when you're young. The music you like is the music you're exposed to, mostly the music you're exposed to when you're young. Once you're sufficiently exposed to a certain type of music enough, it can become hard to adapt and enjoy other types of music.
But why does mainstream music suck? I don't know, does it suck? I don't listen to mainstream music, but I'm not going to claim that it's terrible, music is highly subjective and mainstream music just doesn't happen to be the type of music that I enjoy. I can claim mainstream music sucks, but that claim will be no more valid than someone who enjoys mainstream music claiming that the music I like sucks. The song why can't we be friends should probably be played in the background right about now.
I want to know why people like music. What is it inside our brain that causes us to like it. Do any other animals enjoy music? For how long have our ancestors been creating and enjoying music? Why do different people like different types of music? So many questions.