I haven’t watched that video yet but it’s on my list.
It’s sad but I like jobs your piece is not dour. Time marches on and things change. We just have to deal with it. The good thing is is that the music is still there and that it’s still being made. Maybe it’s not as culturally important as it once was, but hey, neither is jazz or orchestral music and they’re still around. Being niche isn’t the worst fate in the world.
not sure i agree. 50's were a mix of jazz, blues, very early pop. 60's were folk, singer songwriter, some 'pop' and still some very jazzy and blues elements. pop/rock was late 60's to early 70's. Then a softer pop was there for a while. But late 60's to early 70's was also a time country/bluegrass style started come back mixing with country/pop to make what is now thought of as country. Then 80's had metal and more 'hard rock' for a while but it was well mixed with the rise of pop-country. Even disco showed up big. The early 90's had a huge folk revival along with a change to less 'social' context for a lot of songs outside that, but still there are plenty.
I don't think there was ever an era of 'one type' of music, It's always a mix, and always changing. Sometimes I hear songs from the 20's or 30's I've never heard that are just as fresh as music of today. You can listen to someone like Miley Cyrus - she does folk, power ballads, pure rock and roll, country, light pop, and everything else. And does it really well. It's certainly not gone. And there are a lot of folks with that kind of range. New ones show up all the time. Great time for music I think.
-Dave (over 60 so I've lived through some of it!).
I do agree that mainstream music is very dead, but the underground is still very much alive. Great works are still being made. You just need to put in the effort to look for them.
I haven’t watched that video yet but it’s on my list.
It’s sad but I like jobs your piece is not dour. Time marches on and things change. We just have to deal with it. The good thing is is that the music is still there and that it’s still being made. Maybe it’s not as culturally important as it once was, but hey, neither is jazz or orchestral music and they’re still around. Being niche isn’t the worst fate in the world.
not sure i agree. 50's were a mix of jazz, blues, very early pop. 60's were folk, singer songwriter, some 'pop' and still some very jazzy and blues elements. pop/rock was late 60's to early 70's. Then a softer pop was there for a while. But late 60's to early 70's was also a time country/bluegrass style started come back mixing with country/pop to make what is now thought of as country. Then 80's had metal and more 'hard rock' for a while but it was well mixed with the rise of pop-country. Even disco showed up big. The early 90's had a huge folk revival along with a change to less 'social' context for a lot of songs outside that, but still there are plenty.
I don't think there was ever an era of 'one type' of music, It's always a mix, and always changing. Sometimes I hear songs from the 20's or 30's I've never heard that are just as fresh as music of today. You can listen to someone like Miley Cyrus - she does folk, power ballads, pure rock and roll, country, light pop, and everything else. And does it really well. It's certainly not gone. And there are a lot of folks with that kind of range. New ones show up all the time. Great time for music I think.
-Dave (over 60 so I've lived through some of it!).
Metalheads being told music cultism over personality is ended: "I'll ignore that."
I do agree that mainstream music is very dead, but the underground is still very much alive. Great works are still being made. You just need to put in the effort to look for them.