To think current pop music is telling us something very disturbing about the nation’s youth?

[DonaldTwain]

Watching the Brit awards (I know, why).
Ed Sheehan. Calvin Harris. Sam Smith. All of whom in my day (hitches bosom) would have been pure radio two fodder.
Only grime gives me hope. What the fuck is wrong with kids today? Not enough class As?

I am very sad we have gone so bland. No real fashion or music shape this millennium.

It was unbelievably dull.
And that’s me being generous.

The guy singing with Pink is lead singer of Bastille but he was so bad and showed up by Pink. I enjoyed Pink but the rest.... nah.

Reaction to the previous generation a la Ab Fab?

We are so cool we forced them to submit to boringness

I'm just watching it on repeat - so many artists I have never heard of or wouldn't recognise if you showed me a photo

The Lead singer of The 1975 is the offspring of Tim Healy and Denise Welch

WTF!

Prefer them to the bitches/hoes/money type of crap.

That stuff makes me really worried.

Also dislike the drake style of flat whingy elevator too cool to sung properly type crap where “rhyming” involves using the same word on the end of every sentence.

I dunno it seemed pretty wild at DD’s uni. Lots and lots of class As and getting off your face at dirty warehouse events. House parties consisted of graftiing the entire cellar and fitting it out with sound system and lighting and getting a DJ. Off yeah and more class As.

On the whole I’d have slept far easier if she’d been mooching around at home listening to Adele.

They are a product of their upbringing.

We did this. Blame yourselves.

Youths at work "We went to London at the weekend"
Me "ooh was it mayhem?"
Youths "Yes, we went on the London Eye and it was really busy"

I also hate the lack of imagination in today's song lyrics, it's all very literal. "I went to the club, you were there" or Bruno Mars and his snuggly blankey. Metaphors would be nice hmmm?

I misread it as LOOKS LIKE the offspring of til Healy and Denise Welsh and was trying to figure what that person would look like...then the penny dropped...

I wasn’t convinced by the Healy/Welch boy’s misogyny message- he looked unsure what misogyny was but thought it sounded quite cool.

Now That's What I Call Meh

Do you lot really look down on your own kids for not doing class A drugs?! Wow

Younguns are all in the gym in skimpy clothes. Then they bugger off and have a juice somewhere with an avocado toastie.

Surely the Brits has always showcased the mainstream dirge? I can't remember a time when it has ever been particularly cool or edgy. Nothing's changed as far as I can tell.

Ah feck I wish I'd watched the bloody thing now. It sounds like a hoot.

Oh god it's so sad, I really do despair! The yoothes now frown upon a "wasted" £100 night out getting off ones tits and snogging unsuitable young men. They must be so bored. Weeknights are a no-go in towns, they're all at home shaving their fannies and saving for mortgages. Youth is no longer wasted on the young, they have rebelled. Can I have mine back if they don't want theirs??

At least we weren’t subjected to women grinding their pelvis and spreading their legs in skimpy outfits like Cardi B’s mob at the Grammys.

I remember thinking the brits was rubbish when I was a teenager and that it had "old people" on it! (i'm not sure the brits has ever been down with the kids?) Me and DH quite liked it! (although I usually like Jack whitehall (presenter) but I didn't find him great as a presenter.

Watched in bed and sucked my teeth at the dull young things. George Ezra is rather sweet - I know, I know I am old and he needs mothering.

Remembers the heady days of being a New Romantic and parading around the London clubs in a blue ensemble straight from the Pears Bubbles advert

Little Mix give me the rage as well, what our family describe as Silly Bitch Alerts

This thread made me .

Why is Sam Smith duetting with a woman? I'd have more respect for his music if he was true to his own sexuality.

Music is far too safe these days.