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AIBU?

to feel sorry for young people and the boring music that is popular

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entiledornot · 09/02/2015 20:21

There are three guys who I always switch stations when they come on, and they come on a lot. They are the three that had the biggest sales last year and all sing through their noses and are average / below average looking.

Its hardly rock n roll. Aibu to think they are rubbish music stars?

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Justanotherlurker · 09/02/2015 20:29

Think you are just becoming of age, i can garuntee what you followed in your youth would also be considered below par by your peers.

Although I may be giving you a bit to much credit as you have brought 'looks' into it...

EatShitDerek · 09/02/2015 20:32

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entiledornot · 09/02/2015 20:35

Well to be honest I think bland crap sells, like mild cheddar is the most popular cheese and Carling is the most popular beer.

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Charlotte3333 · 09/02/2015 20:36

Oh come on, some of the most popular musicians of the 60's, 70's and 80's weren't handsome devils to start with and ended up with faces like bags of spanners.

I have a particularly large soft spot for the man-child Ed Sheeran and have disgusted myself recently by feeling that old cliche 'if I was ten years younger' applies to him. When I was a kid it was only really old folk who said stuff like that. Apparently I'm now really old.

entiledornot · 09/02/2015 20:36

I think 1ds recent stuff is much better than the three bland guys that sing through their nose

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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 09/02/2015 20:37

God, yes. Though I'm not the best judge. When you're raised just after arguably the best two decades for rock music anything new will pale into insignificance.

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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 09/02/2015 20:40

Who are the three bland guys?! Are you afraid they'll hunt you down if you mention their names?

GiddyOnZackHunt · 09/02/2015 20:40

They're choosing it. Back in my yoof you could buy what was in Smiths or the funny little record shop and listen to hardly any radio stations.
Now people can download practically anything so if they're choosing this stuff it's really by choice. So don't feel sorry for them

CuddlesfromChickens · 09/02/2015 20:40

I'm afraid it's a sign of age. Ask your Mum/Mil or Aunties - I bet they felt the same way.

Not sure what good looks has to do with musical ability though...

entiledornot · 09/02/2015 20:40

www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-top-40-biggest-selling-artist-albums-of-2014-3387/

Five or bsb never really sold many albums at all.

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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 09/02/2015 20:42

If it's a sign of age, I've been an old person my entire life.

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Justanotherlurker · 09/02/2015 20:46

Bland crap has always sold, the problem is your judging manufactured chart crap with real music.

Depending how much you like music, you are in the spectrum of being fed new music via the major commercial channels, or your a hipster who bought there first ep and saw them in the dog and duck and feel they have sold out.

It was ever thus, and will be the same.

Wotsitsareafterme · 09/02/2015 20:46

Yanbu. In any way.

Hulababy · 09/02/2015 20:46

Definitely a sign of your age.

Our parents will have thought the same of the music we listened to.
Likewise their parents will have thought similar.

Anyone remember the mutterings of "but its got no tune?" etc.

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AlpacaLypse · 09/02/2015 20:50

I'm not entirely certain what you're talking about.

Both my teenagers are lusting like nobody's business about Hozier. I haven't dared tell them that their mother (and several of their friends' mother's too) are also lusting dreadfully after him. Sexy and a great song... what's not to like?

revealall · 09/02/2015 20:50

I think music is MUCH better now. I can remember hating pretty much everything in the 1980's aside from a bit of rock. The70's and 90's had some interesting orginal stuff but nothing compared to today.

OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 09/02/2015 20:53

Depending how much you like music, you are in the spectrum of being fed new music via the major commercial channels, or your a hipster who bought there first ep and saw them in the dog and duck and feel they have sold out.

True dat.

says the hipster

ValentinesDay · 09/02/2015 20:53

Ezra, Sheeran and Smith tunes just blend into one big dull song.

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PrincessPilolevuofTONGA · 09/02/2015 20:55

The kids don't listen to radio. They've got the whole of the internetted world to explore, rather than the few compliant artists chosen by big corporations. YABU. I hear far more diversity and creativity now I can choose who to listen to.

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entiledornot · 09/02/2015 21:00

Ezra, Sheeran and Smith tunes just blend into one big dull song.

Exactly. I'm sure sheeran has had strippers / pole dancers in some of his videos anyway.

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