to think that popular music was better in "my day"

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DS1 is fast approaching adolescence with DD not far behind and they are both beginning to develop an interest in contemporary popular music. However, it all sounds like a terrible racket to me - hardly any of it seems to have a proper tune or lyrics and the artists all appear to have very silly names. When I was a teenager, I remember enjoying music by musicians like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Wham! and Culture Club. I am beginning to dread the next few years of having to listen to this appalling cocophany with accompanying booming bass line and obscene lyrics. My Dcs however tell me that I am just being old and boring and am a "loser". Surely IANBU to thing that music should have a tune?

My son used to pinch my '90s cds a few years back. I remember a friend of his asking me if I had heard of Nine Inch Nails. I told him they were my favourite band, he started laughing. Ds leaned over to him and said "Actually they are. My Mum has the best CD collection I've ever seen". I grinned a lot at his friend's blushes.

Agreed, therer was loads of rubbish in 80's and 90's. sam fox, touch me, touch me, I mean come on !!
Or black box, ride on time. what a fab track.

There is loads of fab mysic out there at he moment. I even like Jessie J and katy Perry 'baby you're a firework'. my 2 yr old and 6 yr old think this is the best thing ever. my 2 year old like "ianna, ianna" = rhianna !!

you sold like a right old foggie. totally out of touch. sorry.

YABU - popular music of the 70s ("my dy") was better than the 80s!!!

is it Estelle (??) thta is making it big in the US, at the mo ? almost unheard of thta. she has a fab voice.

i like that firework song but it's so stylised

need more gritty bands that actually play all their instruments and have something to say

As a music teacher and a mum what I hate about the pop music today (I was a Duranie by the way!) is the endless need for overdubbing and production to the nth degree...also, the rapping for verses, looped melody for chorus obsession...its crap!!!!!

blimey must be bad for a duran duran fan to say that

...oh and the use of the word 'shit' all over the place...thanks Katy Perry et al for getting my 11 year old son to sing that in the car

Well if by popular music you mean pop OP it has always been and always be shite.

Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Wham! ?? They were good?? They were the pap of my youth

Nothing changes. Listen up people and listen HARD!

It is our right, nay our DUTY to find the popular music of today shite. It's what we've been doing for generations- maybe different words, different reasons, but it's all the same.

"X factor crap. Style over substance"

"Women are all strumpets nowadays."

"They don't even play their own instruments"

"Can't tell if it's a boy or a girl"

"They should get their hair cut"

"Can't even tell what they're saying"

"It's just noise"

"Piano music? Piano? Learn to play the bloody harpsichord, then I may take you seriously"

"Harpsichord- in my day, you played a lyre, now that's music"

etc etc :o