to be sad about music nowadays...

[MamIAMoon]

Or has it always been this way?

Has there always been so much shite mass produced music about?

I'm 27 so born in 90s. I remember growing up with Madonna - Ray of Light, Michael Jackson, some proper classics. I don't recall hundreds of artists singing about sex and ex boyfriends in the way they do now... at least Spice Girls and Britney had a bit of something about them!!

AIBU to feel a bit sad about the music industry in its current form? It has it always been this way and I've just not noticed in my childhood/teen years?

Or not it!

Just to add, I know there's a tonne of great music out there (by great, I mean put together well, with thought, and without the mass production esque sound), but I just feel a little sad that kids (my DSS included) are listening to such nonsense in such huge amounts! I listened to some of the little mix lyrics the other day and wanted to pull my eardrums out!

Totally agree, modern music is crap

It's just nostalgia, there's loads of good stuff out there, just probably not in the mainstream

There was a load of shite in the 90s too. Aqua, 2 Unlimited, Ace of base...

You're just remembering the good stuff.

No it’s not always been the case.
It’s just the way the world is changing and how technology is a bigger influence in music.
In the same way talking about sex and swearing is becoming more acceptable. Don’t forget years ago you couldn’t even swear on here (and even talking about Scunthorpe would mean part of your post was )
Good music is still very much out there though! Play it more and it’ll possible influence your kids tastes (its worked with mine at least).

Well I can remember the Adults around saying that music had gone crap, in the early 80's. As every generation does.

I think you've got to go outside the Pop/Charts.

I agree.
I’m a fan of crappy pop music too, I think it has its place but stuff these days is miserable.
I miss the 00’s when crappy pop was fun and weird.

@StopTheHistrionics erm, the bands you mentioned are amazing!

Or maybe that's just my 90s nostalgia!

My DS is 14 and also despairs of mainstream chart music because it's so formulaic. So I don't think it's necessarily a generational thing. If you listen to, say, Pick of the Pops you realise how varied the charts used to be compared to today.

You don’t think that Britney, spice girls and Madonna are shite music? I think you may be looking back on this with rose tinted glasses.

That's exactly what DH said last night. We only recall the good stuff from our own era. We watched TOTP from the 1980s and remembered how much unmemorable crap there was too!

@boyskeepswining the charts are no longer indicative of what most young people listen to. It’s more a reflection on what goes on the radio which most people my age don’t listen to. Some of the most popular songs amongst my age group in the past decade never made it into the charts. The way that people listen to music has just changed.

Me and DH were having this exact conversation yesterday.
I'm no prude but I don't understand why so many songs have to be so bloody vulgar!

People have been saying this since Mozart was around. It's part of 'Back in my day' nostalgia.

I'm your age and remember my parents saying the same about my music in the 90s and early 00s and their parents probably said the same about the music in the 70s. Everyone hates the music in the era when they become an adult, and reminisces about the music when they were children/ teens. It's just the power of nostalgia!

I loved Ace of Bace.

The 80s and early 90s were full of crap mass produced music courtesy of Stock Aitken and Waterman.

You do know The spice girls were also mass produced, as was Britney?

I'm in my 50s and I think there's lots of fanatastic music these days. I buy CDs regularly and listen to BBC radio 6 all the time.

Op agree with others - you don't remember the dross just the good stuff!

I'm going ignore three misogynist goading, pathetic.

@EnoughAlready999 you know it was probably someone else who suggested they dress like that. And fyi their dress sense doesn't determine how they are sexually so calling them 'stupid little sluts' because they were nude at some point or dressed as 'prostitutes' is very offensive

Tinatsarina I'm offended looking at them. Musical performers whose fans are young girls should not be semi-naked.

I find I have to look outside the mainstream for new music I enjoy now, unlike in the 80s/90s. I don't really know whether there's such a thing as the Top 40 any more, but if ever I hear music on Radio 1 (which I assume still has the same 'mainstream' remit as it did 20/30 years ago) I find it - well, pretty awful really.

Possibly I am 'too old' for it, but I don't like the emphasis on dance beats and the sort of electronically 'mangled' vocals you have nowadays.

Anecdotally, I don't think it's necessarily the case that you always prefer the music of your own young days - back in the 80s and 90s, my mum, who would have been in her 40s/50s, used to like 'chart' music as much as I did.

Op, you are turning into your mother.

Sorry to have to be the one to break it to you.