[redvinoandambien]

I used to agree with you, as most of my favourite artists are of the older generation and are known for their deep meaningful lyrics, and I would only listen to them. But then one day I thought, lighten up why not, in all aspects of my life...and now whilst I still enjoy meaningful songs I also love random dance tracks just because they're fun. Just forget what everyone else thinks about the music, forget why it's popular and just try to see the lighter side to it. It's a much better way to live.

[frankieboy]

(Original post by AspiringGenius)
Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run

The dubstep version wasn't bad.

[burgerrr]

A lot of "popular" music is cheesy with no proper tune in my opinion.
Sure you do get some that stand out a bit, but i'd rather listen to stuff a bit older which is actually good.

[tbcl]

Because, sadly most people buy what they are told to buy.

[emi_sarb]

Pop music is all about making money. Most of the artists don't write their own songs and probably don't even care about the lyrics as the way they look seems to be far more important. What I don't get is why so many people laugh at Rebecca Black when Friday isn't much different to a lot of other pop songs. Look at these lyrics by Black Eyed Peas

Spoiler:

Show

I got a feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good good night wooh hoo (x4)

Tonight’s the night night
Let’s live it up
I got my f**kin' money
Let’s spend it up
go out and smash it
let go o' my guard
Jump off that sofa
Let’s get get this bitch up



I know that we’ll have a ball
if we get down
and go out
and just f**kin' lose it all

I feel stressed out
I wanna let it go
Lets go way out spaced out
and losing all control

Fill up my cup
Mazeltov
Look at her dancing
just take it off
Lets paint the town
We’ll shut it down
Let’s burn the roof
and then we’ll do it again

Let's Do it and do it and do it 1
and do it and do it 2
and do it and do it and live it 3
up and do it, do it
4
do it, do it, and do it 5
and do it and do it and do it 6
and do it and do it and 7

i gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good good night (x2)

Tonight’s the night
let’s live it up
I got my money
Lets spend it up

Go out and smash it (smash it)
Like Oh My God (like oh my god)
Jump off that sofa (cmon)
Lets kick it up

Fill up my cup (Drink)
Mazel tov!(le haim)
Look at her dancing (Move it Move it)
Just take it off

Lets paint the town (paint the town)
We’ll shut it down (shut it down)
Lets burn the roof
and then we’ll do it again

count to 7 and start singing again
shut the f**k up, up, up

Here we come
here we go
we gotta rock rock
rock rock rock

Easy come
easy go
now we on top
top top top top

Feel the shot
body rock
Rock it don’t stop stop
stop stop

Round and round
up and down
around the clock clock clock clock

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Friday, Saturday, Saturday to Sunday

we keep keep keep keep going up
we know what we say say
party everyday
p-p-p-party every f**kin' day

got a feeling (ooooooo ooooooo)
that tonights gonna be a good night
that tonights gonna be a good night
that tonights gonna be a good good night
(oooooooooooo ooooooooooo)

They've used far too much autotune and the days of the week are randomly in there. Is it really any better than Rebecca Black?

[VBQ]

(Original post by Bulbasaur)
I see your point OP, and I agreed until you used those bands as examples of good music. In fact, they are some of the bands I'm pretty disillusioned with and are proabably a part of the problem of decreasing "quality" of music if you like. If you wanted a good example, I think something from Rush (you probably don't even know who they are, no offence), Pink Floyd, The Manic Street Preachers or even John Mayer would back your point up far more, particularly when these actually combine good music with meaningful lyrics. Your examples are mediocre at best, to be fair.

Now that's over with, I'm not actually saying that there's anything wrong with listening to this sort of stuff, I do myself (though not really those bands in particular, some are probably worse). But if you're going to be elitest about it, at least make your pont valid I guess.



Pretty much I guess. The 90s would be an ideal decade for "now". But it's got to the point where the top 40 represents a minority (though this is probably due to the fact it is the same minority who actually pay for the majority of their music!)

But again, I'm not going to pretend there isn't some brilliant music still out there. Some of my favourite bands are very modern. Take the Reign of Kindo for example (hardly anybody knows them), they formed just a few years ago. Another obscure example, a blues band called Vintage Trouble formed fairly recently, it's just that a lot of "good" or "meaningful" music tends to be hidden away...

I acknowledge my examples were not great, I used them as they are the bands I commonly taking the most criticism. I know there are much better examples, rage got in the way a little aha.

As for the point about rush, I don't understand why you'd assume I've never heard of them, of course I have!

[Entangled]

Meaning is subjective. I'd take issue with the subjects, myself.

[goape]

IMO music has never been both as bad and as good as it has been today, simultaneously, i.e. the mainstream is worse than ever but beyond the mainstream things are getting better and more varied.

[goape]

(Original post by Entangled)
Meaning is subjective. I'd take issue with the subjects, myself.

The meaning of Stupid Hoe is the expression of anger over the rise of the price of Freddos.

[DotComBoom]

I think the key thing for me with the pop music industry is that it's fun and I don't take it seriously BUT the lack of meaning in songs just seems to me to be because you have writers who churn out song after song for groups and artists who then just record said songs.