re: Most Streamed & listened to Artists in the US 2020.

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TL:DW: Music today is much more precise with all the beat machines and the precision is off putting to the old heads.

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That’s an oversimplification of what Rick means about modern music. He is very direct in his channel about how music nowadays (and since the early 2000s) is terrible due to quantizing everything that gets recorded. Throw in auto tune and you have a heartless, soulless culture of music that is creating a vapid generation of youth.

jclem11 a few minutes ago on the MSB:

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Go to bed boomer.

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This has to be a 13 year old kid.

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Rock and roll is largely responsible for the moral decline of America

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I have come curiously close to the end, down Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole Defeated, I concede and Move closer I may find comfort here I may find peace within the emptiness How pitiful

It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me

And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping The moon tells me a secret, my confidant As full and bright as I am This light is not my own and A million light reflections pass over me Its source is bright and endless She resuscitates the hopeless Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt Don't want to be down here soothing my narcissism I must crucify the ego before it's far too late I pray the light lifts me out

Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away

So crucify the ego, before it's far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason

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You’re right. Not quite as morally responsible as;

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I said, certified freak Seven days a week Wet-arse pussy Make that pull-out game weak, woo Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, you fricking with some wet-arse pussy Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet-arse pussy Give me everything you got for this wet-arse pussy Beat it up, ****, catch a charge Extra large and extra hard Put this pussy right in your face Swipe your nose like a credit card Hop on top, I wanna ride I do a kegel while it's inside Spit in my mouth, look in my eyes This pussy is wet, come take a dive Tie me up like I'm surprised Let's role play, I'll wear a disguise I want you to park that big Mack truck Right in this little garage Make it cream, make me scream Out in public, make a scene I don't cook, I don't clean But let me tell you how I got this ring…

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I have a different take on hip hop in general. As a genre I’d say it’s entered into the equivalent of the hair band era. The golden age of hip hop in the mid 90’s early 2000’s has given way to this cartoonish version of its former self. The lyricism and word play has been replaced by mumbling and non sense. The beats are pretty generic too. If it stays on this trajectory, it might end up where rock n roll is today.

All of the lyrics from those rappers all have a common theme.....But no one calls them out for "inciting violence"

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As a genre I’d say it’s entered into the equivalent of the hair band era.

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It has the same reputation. 18 year old chicks dug hair metal in 1985 too.

However there were some amazing musicians who proceeded through the hair band era. Today its primarily a tech enhanced reproduction of music.

I have a 13 year old granddaughter living with me. She mainly listens to 80's college rock and early 90's rock. She hates the modern stuff.

I thought hair bands were a shitty evolution when they happened myself, but there were a few songs I enjoyed. The "Grunge" era was very happily received.

Pop music was always an abomination and geared toward teens, however there were always one or two classics on the chart pre 1995. Streaming music killed mainstream music.

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I have a 13 year old granddaughter living with me. She mainly listens to 80's college rock and early 90's rock. She hates the modern stuff.

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My daughter is a year older but she listens to a lot of 15+ year old music too. I've introduced her to a lot of it. She listens to some modern stuff but it's mostly rock style.

The junk food of music.

The Weeknd makes good music

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The Weeknd makes good music

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