eh its not all shit there is some good stuff out from nowadays and yea i'd say older things like the 80s/90s and early 2000s was really good
idk music is music,always gonna find good and shit in it no matter what time "era" or genre, everyone has there opinions and what u dont like someone out there is bound to be a fan of it
its all bout taste

lol im not from the 80s, also infant in the 90s but my mom plays it round the house so much its what we listen to
and yea it does sound better
i prefer rock gerne thats just me but pop is ok sometimes i guess
i like all kinds of music XD

It's not all shit - you just have to search a bit harder for the good stuff. The songs that get released as singles are not usually the best songs on an album - they're the ones that either sound appealing to a wider audience (code for cliche) or they're the ones that are the easiest to censor.

yup good point

Todays music promoted by the media is mostly garbage

Good music is still all around beyond that though

Well, they're still talented, for instance Bruno Mars surely is.

Pop is too mainstream nowadays, and there are so many listeners out there, so many singers divert towards that path. Taylor Swift for example, got famous through country music, but she's doing half-pop right now.

The music decades ago, like ballad, is great and well-known. I was lucky to be influenced by my dad.

I think there's great music today. Simple plan, Ed Sheeran, New Medicine, ECT. They have lyrics that actually mean something. I get what you mean though, like "ass ass ass ass ass ass ass now shake that mfin ass" Doesn't touch my soul like ed sheeran's "I could do without a tan, on my left hand, where my fourth finger meets my knuckle" I also happen to love Bruno Mars, He's amazing, and i don't think he falls in the same category as Katy Perry or Rihanna.

This.

Some of my favorite bands are rather new. You can't generalize and entire generation of music based on the shitty manufactured talent that comes out of the pop media that buys it way to the top of the lists.

There's a lot of good music these days, it's just most of it is underground. Pop and RnB hit their peak in the 80's and early 90's but it's in a fairly bad place now. The problem with those genres is that they became driven by record labels that decided to constantly try to churn out identical acts of "vocal prodigies" that could sing and dance, but couldn't write their own songs, or sing/dance with the passion of the artists they were mirroring (Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna). That's not to say that Pop is bad these days, there are artists out there that make music that's challenging and interesting (Lady Gaga's music is definitely unique in the sense that it has it's own personality but is also catchy and pop at the same time) but most music sounds the same overall. I remember reading this study last year about how most pop music from the passed few years (2010-2012) actually all used similar chord progressions and drum kits/ synth patches, pretty much affirming that most pop music is prepackaged now.

But some great groups/artists out there are:
The Flaming Lips
Frank Ocean
Bruno Mars (at least his album sounds unique and uses real instruments :P)
Tegan and Sara
Neon Indian
MGMT

I like some music from all of these singers/groups: Bieber, 1D, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Carly Rae Jepson...but then, I just recently got into current music and I can be very 'average teen girl' about these kind of things.

Anyone heard of The Cab? As far as I know some of their songs are really meaningful.

Nope. Maybe in the mainstream, yes, but if you want really good music, you've gotta dig a little deeper.

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Music that's popular is popular because the music industry makes money off of it. People keep buying it so they keep making it.

Anyone who thinks today's music is garbage is a fucking moron. People only look back at the older generation's music so fondly because only the classics are remembered from any given time period. In 50 years people will look back at this generation's classics and lament their current music.

There's definitely some great music out there, its just unfortunate that the bad vastly overshadows it (both in quantity and general popularity).

AGREE! You didn't even mention country music.

Listen to electro-swing or my podcast Airshipwrecked instead.

I think it is garbage..they just talk about money and bitches...old school will always be the best..