I hate every single modern song and I can’t put my finger on why!

I listen to Radio 2 on an evening. Jo Whiley (7pm- 9pm) always puts some good music on that I’m frequently Shazaming!

Also Liza Tarbuck on Saturday’s at 6pm (also Radio 2). Quite obscure old stuff sometimes too but good!

Recent Shazams:

Purple Snowfkakes - Say She She
Candyman - Muireann Bradley
Don’t Fall Asleep- Jacob Alon
Speyside - Bon Iver

I always think this to myself!
In fact I’ve started listening to more jazz and soul because I can’t find much new music I like 😂 honestly I think it’s a rubbish standard and it all sounds the same. Also I still loathe how modern music objectifies women.

I meant to add I think the drugs being used also come out in the music

Coke and ket = angry

I think music reflects the zeitgeist of the time, and today’s music has violent, angry, nihilistic vibes to it

It’s not happy like ABBA or sad and reflective like Amy Winehouse….its angry

For those on this thread who have found 'new' music that they love, can you tell me how? Where do you hear it? My kids want to listen to radio 1 but that is full of absolute crap. I don't want to be one of those middle aged people who insist that music was better 'in my day' but my spotify is full of bands I've been listening to for at least 15 years and the music it suggests I might like is often even older!
I like indie bands - they seem to have faded in popularity in recent years.

There is a lot of AI involvement in modern music and too many cases of someone who just had to press all the buttons. Pet hate is hyperactive drum machines. Just plain irritating.

There is some fabulous music out there, too, though. I keep a little stack of my CDs next to my stereo that I swap out from my collection, occasionally, and currently, in amongst the King Crimson, Radiohead, PJ Harvey and The Smiths are a couple by Public Service broadcasting - largely electronic but far from soulless - and The Waeve.

I think it’s the robotic element too - everything sounds sort of tinny, fake and over processed - like the aural equivalent of UPFs in food. There’s no real heart/depth to most current mainstream music. I do still like some of the newer more niche stuff that gets played on 6Music though.

Have a listen to radio 2 at the weekend. POTP Sunday evening for example.

i agree with another poster. My DC late 20s/30s like a mix of music and were brought up with 60/70/80 as well, as the current stuff that was around

That surprises me because of the way music is listened to now

Everyone is lost in their earbuds listening on their own

So I grew up listening to my parents and older siblings choices plus whatever was on the radio. So I was listening to music from the 1950s-70s
Then when I had my children it was the 80s-90s

Then I regressed and only listen to the music I like from there with very rare hearings of 'new' stuff - like Teddy Swims

I have never liked or understood rap or anything else that doesn't have a tune and words I understand. And obviously it' not written for people of my age

My daughter has no idea about any chart music. It’s all 80s and alternative!

Dua Lipa has to be the most overrated artist. Not a very pleasant voice and auto tuned to death.
Cannot believe she headlined Glastonbury last year either!

Deacon Blue have new stuff out - I love their single Late ‘88.

I hate anything with Autotune. It really detracts from the voice, it makes voices sound similar, and there's a strange distortion that I hear.

I miss the days when songs were written by one or two people!

Top of the Pops was ace - you could get Sisters of Mercy, Sonia, Bon Jovi, Kim Wilde, Sinitta and Iron Maiden all on the same show. They should bring it back!

Okay, not universally embarrassing. But look at this lot... There are maybe 10 of this Top50 - Bowie, Slade, I'd probably admit to liking Mud - that wouldn't cause me to put a pillow over my head. But it's hardly representative of the best new music of the year.

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19731111/7501/

but Suzie Quattro was so inspiring for girls like me.

Thanks to this thread now listening to Sam Fender.

I get lazy with music. I have Spotify but tend to listen to my favourites, or my all women playlist (have crowdsourced some of that - it is eye opening)

It galls me that i like rock music (thanks, mum) i love really good pop too. But mostly what i listen to are male voices. But the little girl breathy thing gets on my nerves.

Listened to a couple you list. And I'll quote Jack Good the man who created itvs first pop music programme, Oh Boy! "they didnt even play in tune before I came along". Like the people who produced those songs, he missed the point, the excitement, the spontaneity, the ooomphh has been taken out of them. They are polished, rounded off and sound like a thousand other songs from the last 25 years.

Rubber Bullets and Can The Can weren’t embarrassing!!

You can’t hate Sabrina Carpenter ‘Espresso’

you just can’t !!

Yes. And they still do.

Pop music is no longer merely about what's current. There's a canon - a heritage and a cultural history - that goes back sixty years. My kids and all their friends who hang out at our house - 19 to 23ish - are as familiar with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Motown, Blur, Chic, Arctic Monkeys as they are with the music being made today. And there's a lot of good music being made today.

However, because of the way that music is consumed today (neither of my daughters has ever paid for music in a shop) the charts aren't necessarily representative of new music as a whole.

Actually they never were. I recently looked at the Top20 for 1973 - the year of some of the most successful albums ever released - and the singles chart, I have to tell you, was really embarrassing.

Not the point of the post but how do people know what is currently popular with the youth?

I only know one of the songs listed in the OP 😳

I have 6 music on the radio a lot but it’s mostly stuff targeted at middle aged folks like myself.

How do I find out what, say, mainstream and less mainstream 17-year-olds are into?

I think it's auto tune - I've seen people on youtube do comparisons with auto tuned and non auto tuned verions of songs. No auto tuning you can hear that singer uniqueness and a lot more emotion.

DD2 16 had small party in exam period and they were dancing to songs - many of which shocking I tend to listen to via alexa when doing jobs - Rip tide was one - 2013 - summertime sadness 2012. So not as old as many suggest but not really recent last few year songs.

One of her friends who really into music listens to Green Day - but more their older stuff - which nearly 20 years.

I suspect there's good stuff out there but it's finding it and many TV ads or you tube clips use older songs now.

I've also seen documenataries where old musician pin point period when corporate money took over industry and people on yotube pointing out lack of bands these days - as apparently music industry not so keen on them at moment.

There are clearly problems and I think it's more than MN getting old - but as other posters have said there issue in american film indurtry - I'd say in TV land and in book publishing.

Try BBC Radio 6 Music
lots of good indie/alternative stuff

They were, the Beatles and stones. Status Quo took the BBC to court because they were removed from the play list in the mid 90s. At the same time the BBC sacked the older, original djs and only played current music from them on.

but where do you look and how do you find?

it's all very well saying that, but do you have recs?

I've recently been seeing (because she was support for other artists i like) Amy Montgomery. She is old-school rocky. Her band is called Preyers. If you like rockier music give her a go.