AIBU to think that style of tuneless music you get today is terrible?!

[bluewanda]

Someone is listening to it on our street right now. I don’t know how to describe it but it sounds like the singer’s voice is distorted with some special effect or something? I hear loads of music like this blasting from people’s cars and it all sounds utterly tuneless and exactly the same. There’s no discernable melody and it’s frankly just awful!

AIBU or am I just getting old?

Everything sounds like there trying to be Rihanna. I just hear her lovely Barbados (I think) accent on everything and sounds so try hard

YANBU

I can't understand why Billie Eilish is so successful. Tuneless, mumbling moany songs. DD is a big fan unfortunately

I apm jolly fed up of this.
I changed the radio station at work today before my brain fully turned to mash!
I cannot stand it anymore!

Autotune, blame autotune...

Autotune hurts my ears. I don’t care if it makes me old, I hate it.

The only thing that makes you old is complaining about the music of today’s youth.
Congrats!

I never really liked the music of my own youth, let alone the present stuff! Autotune and the pop video/YouTube channels have allowed the truly talentless to take over. It's got that 'uncanny valley' thing life-like robots have. Your brain knows it's wrong!

Yep. Definitely old.

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

YANBU

I can't understand why Billie Eilish is so successful. Tuneless, mumbling moany songs. DD is a big fan unfortunately

She is definitely one of the worst singers around IMHO. She just looks like she's permanently drugged up with those droopy eyes, bright hair and hideously long nails. She's so young, yet never smiles 😏

YANBU. I feel like it's the same old shit for the last 10 years. I flick the radio on and it's always "I got a bed but I'd rather be in yours tonight..." don't know any of the other lyrics. Hate to sound like my dad but modern music is crap. I miss the Noughties

I think most generations say that about the next one's music. Am sure many in your parents generation said the same about the music of your yoof! So, yes, I'm sorry to inform you that makes you 'old'. I'm old too. DD was informing me of a tik tok trend about a song called WAP (wet as pussy) and I realised I'm well and truly out of the loop.

Gen X, is that you there, railing piteously at the dying of the light?

*ass, not az

@Meredusoleil YY, dare I say it she also looks like she smells a bit musty and would benefit from a really long hot bath 🙊

Yep. I miss the 70s

It's bland autotuned hogwash. The charts are dominated by greedy plutocrats who churn out recycled muzak. Parents used to find their kids music edgy, now it's the other way round!

You are getting old my dear. Go and listen to radio 2.

There are some decent stuff around done by youngsters like “Girl in Red” but the vast majority are autotune to death and they are shite.
It’s like Stock, Aitken, Waterman but worst.

Why should she smile? She’s got judgemental comments like yours following her wherever she goes.

Oops. I was trying to quote this:
“She's so young, yet never smiles” about Billie Eilish.

Every generation complains about the music of the one below, its a massive generalisation because you've heard a few songs you don't like

YANBU but this is exactly what our parents said about the pop music we listened to as children. Their parents will have complained about their music. What's more, Great Great Grandma probably thought the Jazz Age to be terribly unsuitable.

YANBU but this is exactly what our parents said about the pop music we listened to as children.

I agree, but at least the music of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s had a tune. Today’s music (the style that I’m talking about at least) has no melody, it all sounds exactly the same!

Literally every generation says this about the previous generations music. There is plenty of good music if you look, it’s just what is popular is never going to cater to everyone’s taste.

I think much of it is very sexualised and some is aggressive