re: Am I just getting older, or does popular culture really suck as much as it seems?

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Mumble Rap is the god damn worst

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Cardi B and all her ilk should be strapped to artillery before it is fired

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We had Alice in Chains and Nirvana.

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Yeah...those two above fell way short for someone older than you who grew up on AC/DC and Van Halen. To me, the comparison isn't close.

Yes, you are getting older.

Pop culture is defined as what young people get excited about. Per the OT, these days that's ink and piercings, soy, hip-hop, Civics w annoying exhaust, etc. But who cares? Let em have their fun.

popular culture, especially music, is more and more geared toward people who may not even speak english. it's why you'll hear a lot of pop songs using less than 40-50 unique words. radio, television, etc are all dying industries trying to cut costs and expand their consumer base. the result is cheap, shitty content made for a less discerning audience.

kids these days aren't to blame for any of that. the internet has fractured the alternative scene into a thousand niche communities. a kid that would have been into grunge in the 90s now listens to math rock or norwegian melodic doom metal or something. instead of cool shows making it on public access or adult swim people have podcasts and youtube.

I guess I’m the old virgin man without a life but I still dig the 1980’s. I can hear a random 80’s song and can tell you what year it came out and what my life was up to at that time. I guess being young attracts you to the emotions and sounds of that particular time in your life.

There's still good new music coming out but it's more under the radar stuff than it used to be.

And let's not pretend pop music in the 80's and 90's was exactly great (insufferable R&B, boy bands, dance music like C&C Music Factory, a lot of REALLY bad hair metal bands, etc.).

The thing I actually envy the kids about these days is their ability to find new music. Back in our day, you either heard it on the radio, word of mouth, or maybe someone shoots you a mix tape with some stuff on it. Now? Sheeeiiitttt....they literally run algorithms on these streaming services to identify your mood/taste and choose songs matching those signatures. It's insane. I use Tidal...I can play a short personal playlist and, when it's over, Tidal's algo takes over and feeds me a bunch of songs I've never heard before that I actually like and add to my favorites. It's insane.

TV is definitely better now than it was when we were young.

Movies absolutely suck now.

Social media is the debil.

Most fashion today is just recycling the shite older generations wore.

So, yeah, pop culture absolutely sucks now but I think music is one of the areas that sucks the least.

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I hate what American culture has become. We have become soft as a people, and our pop culture reflects it.

My family likes The Voice and America's Got Talent. I'll sit and watched it sometimes, and it's sob story after sob story, and everybody is racing to virtue signal. At this point, if a male performer doesn't shed extreme crocodile tears for some reason, he stands out. Shows are full of overt leftist propaganda, and satanic symbolism. It's gotten out of hand.

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a lot of REALLY bad hair metal bands, etc.).

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Hey there was some good ones also. Poison, Bon Jovi, Cinderella were legit. If you consider GnR and Tesla hair bands, them also, of course, Motley Cru and Skid Row also.

My dad is in his mid 70s. When I was an infant my grandad came over and noticed a Led Zeppelin record in the house. Mom and dad both told me he blew a head gasket and started screaming at my dad that he’d have devil music in the house with a newborn, that it was time to grow up

I use to make fun of my younger brother n law, he’s about 40, for listening to Lincoln Park back in his college years, now I listen to them all the time

American pop culture is trash outside of College football, NFL football, and College Basketball.

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We had Alice in Chains

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And you considered this a GOOD thing?