re: Today’s music sucks, that’s why!

No genre of music has suffered the fall like rock and country.

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Creativity is dead.

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you guys are clearly only listening to top 40 radio


There is so much good stuff coming out

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you guys are clearly only listening to top 40 radio


There is so much good stuff coming out

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Now tell us how great contemporary movies are.

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Movies, and indeed all entertainment, is facing a similar problem. There has been MASSIVE consolidation in the movie studio, and distribution markets. The studios don't really compete anymore, they collude. They have seen shrinking market share relative to the overall entertainment dollar. The reaction to that shrinking market has been to become increasingly risk averse. This is the same thing that has happened in music, and it shouldn't be surprising because they have the same parent companies.

Unlike music, however, is that while the costs associated with making a quality recording have absolutely plummeted to the point that great albums can be made in peoples' bedrooms, the same is not really true for movies. While costs have dropped, the ability to actually make cinema quality movies has risen substantially, making that whole issue of underground filmmaking MORE difficult.

In addition, politics and technology have made comedies more difficult to make. So many classic comedy tropes and plots have been rendered obsolete by the smart phone, to the point that it has become a trope for every main character's phone to suddenly be made unusable at the start of a film's main plot in order for it to happen. Without the typical misunderstanding and communication breakdown shenanigans upon which so many old plots relied, the only material a creatively bankrupt Hollywood machine has left are tired cultural "fish out of water" observations which are likely to be too "controversial" to be used unless they're making fun of straight white Christian males.

So, studios invest all of their money in tentpole existing IPs, streaming services churn out bulk shoe-string budget rom coms that suck, and the few remaining indie film makers stick to oscar bait dramas or low-budget horror films.

The current era of filmmaking produces some pretty solid indie horror films, the occasional absolute slam dunk of a nostalgia trip that uses an existing IP and actually tells a good story, and occasional good psychological thrillers that usually aren't big box office successes.

What's missing from this formula, like rock n roll in current mainstream music, are dumb comedies, historical epics, and action films. Action films and action comedies have largely been replaced by Superhero films, and historical epics have been converted to 5-10 part miniseries on streaming or premium cable subscription channels. Comedies, however, much like rock, will need a major change in economic/political environment to make a comeback.

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Old man yells at sky

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And old man is right.

I've been hating for years


..been telling everyone.

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Old man yells at sky


And old man is right.

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Even if he is, he's not right for the reasons he thinks he is.

Did you not read the part where I basically said that it doesn't matter if the music is crap because it's associated with core memories now. Thus, it will always have a nostalgic draw no matter how crappy it is. The same goes for the music when anyone was young. That's how nostalgia works.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the music I hated as a teen in the 2000's. When I think about that era, unless I try to separate myself from the nostalgia, I tend to think only about the songs that I liked because those are the ones associated with those core memories. I don't think about all the crap music that was everywhere until I take off the nostalgia blinders.

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you lost me at the "80s were like 99% awful".

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Then maybe you should read the whole thing before you jump to conclusions.