Poll of the Day > why are there like 0 instruments in popular music now?

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I_Always_Die
06/26/19 6:56:21 PM
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its just crappy beats and someone mumbling about how cool they are/how sad they are. and its not even exclusively rap music that does this. that Billie eyelash chick is the exact same thing: mumbling over computer generated beats with no actual instruments.

what the fuck is happening
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VeeVees
06/26/19 7:00:53 PM
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because it's easier
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I_Abibde
06/26/19 7:02:03 PM
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Because anybody can use Garage Band if they have an iSomething.
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OhhhJa
06/26/19 7:25:47 PM
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The industry is still pushing that crap but music streaming is allowing people to listen to what they want rather than what's in the radio now. For instance, wheeler walker jr would never be played on the radio but he was number one on iTunes. More and more people are realizing that mainstream pop music is a joke and full of talentless eye candy or people that are entertaining simply by trying to be the biggest fucking freakshow clown in the world
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wwinterj25
06/26/19 9:19:48 PM
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OhhhJa posted...
The industry is still pushing that crap but music streaming is allowing people to listen to what they want rather than what's in the radio now.


Yes. I mean the internet was never a thing until streaming came about so buying whatever music you want in physical media form was impossible. I haven't followed the radio since I were around 15. That was 17 years ago.
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aHappySacka
06/26/19 9:36:25 PM
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Well grandpa, you know that electronic music is widely popular because it can be synthesized to sound like anything while being easier to use right?
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TheWitchMorgana
06/26/19 10:09:28 PM
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synthesizers are instruments stop being a cranky old man
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Doctor Foxx
06/27/19 9:43:17 AM
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So it's just spoken word?

TheWitchMorgana posted...
synthesizers are instruments

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Mead
06/27/19 9:46:38 AM
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Well the good news is that theres more music nowadays of just about every genre and more ways to listen to it

Nobody says you need to only listen to pop
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GeoMaggs
06/27/19 9:56:03 AM
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Mead posted...
Nobody says you need to only listen to pop

The radio does.
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Lokarin
06/27/19 9:58:31 AM
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KeijiMaedaTiger
06/27/19 9:59:03 AM
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GeoMaggs posted...
Mead posted...
Nobody says you need to only listen to pop

The radio does.


Not really.
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thekingoftown
06/27/19 10:05:33 AM
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TheWitchMorgana posted...
synthesizers are instruments stop being a cranky old man


The 80s in a nutshell
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GeoMaggs
06/27/19 10:17:32 AM
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KeijiMaedaTiger posted...
GeoMaggs posted...
Mead posted...
Nobody says you need to only listen to pop

The radio does.


Not really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPXIgEAGe4U" data-time="

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KeijiMaedaTiger
06/27/19 10:19:29 AM
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GeoMaggs posted...
KeijiMaedaTiger posted...
GeoMaggs posted...
Mead posted...
Nobody says you need to only listen to pop

The radio does.


Not really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPXIgEAGe4U" data-time="


I mean, I have never heard that on the radio or otherwise. Maybe pick a better station?
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Mead
06/27/19 10:27:15 AM
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GeoMaggs posted...
Mead posted...
Nobody says you need to only listen to pop

The radio does.


Do you have access to the internet
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adjl
06/27/19 11:32:12 AM
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TheWitchMorgana posted...
synthesizers are instruments stop being a cranky old man


The voice is also an instrument, so...
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argonautweakend
06/27/19 12:07:29 PM
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Yeah, traditional instruments like real guitar and drums are becoming less and less in pop music but the way I see it is, with the entirety of recorded music at my fingertips, whatever modern pop music is doing is whatever and to me doesnt matter.
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GeoMaggs
06/27/19 12:08:11 PM
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KeijiMaedaTiger posted...
I mean, I have never heard that on the radio or otherwise. Maybe pick a better station?


Almost every radio station around here plays it at least 3 times a day. Except the country. After months of hearing it over and over . . .
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GeoMaggs
06/27/19 12:11:34 PM
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Mead posted...
GeoMaggs posted...
Mead posted...
Nobody says you need to only listen to pop

The radio does.


Do you have access to the internet

I do.

Only time I listen to music is at work. Can't use the internet for that stuff on a work computer, and I don't have a personal phone. Even if I did, I wouldn't pay to use data to stream music on a cell phone. I have way more important things to spend money on.

Too much work to set up a play list and DL it to my work phone too. I have very little time in my life to do anything, and setting up playlists is no longer a priority. I used to make CDs and shit all the time, but that was 20 years ago.
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Firewerx
06/27/19 3:34:57 PM
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Surprising number of artists who don't play, don't write, can't really sing, and instead pretty much get by on dance routines alone.
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Mead
06/27/19 3:40:21 PM
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GeoMaggs posted...
Mead posted...
GeoMaggs posted...
Mead posted...
Nobody says you need to only listen to pop

The radio does.


Do you have access to the internet

I do.

Only time I listen to music is at work. Can't use the internet for that stuff on a work computer, and I don't have a personal phone. Even if I did, I wouldn't pay to use data to stream music on a cell phone. I have way more important things to spend money on.

Too much work to set up a play list and DL it to my work phone too. I have very little time in my life to do anything, and setting up playlists is no longer a priority. I used to make CDs and shit all the time, but that was 20 years ago.


Whelp it sounds like youre hellbent and just listening to shitty pop songs on the radio, have fun
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adjl
06/27/19 3:41:58 PM
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Firewerx posted...
Surprising number of artists who don't play, don't write, can't really sing, and instead pretty much get by on dance routines alone.


And even the ones who can sing get autotuned to sound exactly like the ones that can't, since that's the sound that the industry wants right now and they're really just looking for a pretty face to attach it to.
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I_Always_Die
06/27/19 6:30:14 PM
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no shit a synth is an instrument, I love good synths.

these songs have literally no synth, just drum machine loops with samples of super strange noises
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Mead
06/27/19 6:31:08 PM
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Oh so now a super-stranglyphone isnt a real instrument?
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TheWitchMorgana
06/27/19 7:24:00 PM
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I_Always_Die posted...
no shit a synth is an instrument, I love good synths.

these songs have literally no synth, just drum machine loops with samples of super strange noises

youre gonna have to give an example here i literally dont know what youre talking about
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Fierce_Deity_08
07/05/19 9:47:03 AM
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thekingoftown posted...
TheWitchMorgana posted...
synthesizers are instruments stop being a cranky old man


The 80s in a nutshell

The 80s had stuff you could actually call music though.
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JOExHIGASHI
07/05/19 10:12:22 AM
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most radio is 70's and 80's
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EvilMegas
07/05/19 10:20:24 AM
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GeoMaggs posted...
Mead posted...
GeoMaggs posted...
Mead posted...
Nobody says you need to only listen to pop

The radio does.


Do you have access to the internet

I do.

Only time I listen to music is at work. Can't use the internet for that stuff on a work computer, and I don't have a personal phone. Even if I did, I wouldn't pay to use data to stream music on a cell phone. I have way more important things to spend money on.

Too much work to set up a play list and DL it to my work phone too. I have very little time in my life to do anything, and setting up playlists is no longer a priority. I used to make CDs and shit all the time, but that was 20 years ago.

1. You act like phones cost 9million dollars a month. They dont.
2. It's too much work to find/make a playlist but you can make long winded posts like this?

I'm too lazy to finish off why this is just nonsense.
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Muscles
07/05/19 11:13:48 AM
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Pop was always shitty and untalented as a whole with a few exceptions

But even then, it has gotten a lot lazier since the 90s or so since they just have a corporation that uses algorithms making every song on the top 40

Thera no talent, work ethic, or originality in pop music anymore, that's what happens when you choose corporations over artists though

Kids don't even learn real instruments anymore because they are lazy fucks that make millennials look like the greatest generation
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JOExHIGASHI
07/05/19 11:30:55 AM
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Muscles posted...
Pop was always shitty and untalented as a whole with a few exceptions

But even then, it has gotten a lot lazier since the 90s or so since they just have a corporation that uses algorithms making every song on the top 40

Thera no talent, work ethic, or originality in pop music anymore, that's what happens when you choose corporations over artists though

Kids don't even learn real instruments anymore because they are lazy fucks that make millennials look like the greatest generation

There are also really only 2 song writers in the industry. Lukasz Gottwald and Max Martin
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Wanded
07/05/19 1:20:39 PM
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adjl
07/05/19 3:15:31 PM
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Muscles posted...
Kids don't even learn real instruments anymore because they are lazy f***s that make millennials look like the greatest generation


Not to mention the fact that school boards everywhere are slashing the budget for any sort of music programs despite reams of evidence that making music education more accessible is an excellent predictor of academic success.
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EvilMegas
07/05/19 3:18:13 PM
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adjl posted...
Muscles posted...
Kids don't even learn real instruments anymore because they are lazy f***s that make millennials look like the greatest generation


Not to mention the fact that school boards everywhere are slashing the budget for any sort of music programs despite reams of evidence that making music education more accessible is an excellent predictor of academic success.

We have to learn more algebra 2, duh.
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Muscles
07/06/19 12:28:58 AM
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adjl posted...
Muscles posted...
Kids don't even learn real instruments anymore because they are lazy f***s that make millennials look like the greatest generation


Not to mention the fact that school boards everywhere are slashing the budget for any sort of music programs despite reams of evidence that making music education more accessible is an excellent predictor of academic success.

I mean its not even about that, I learned 2 instruments outside of school. They don't want to learn instruments on their own time either even though any instrument sounds 1,000,000 times better than a computer generated version of said instrument
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FatalAccident
07/06/19 1:32:31 AM
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TheWitchMorgana posted...
synthesizers are instruments stop being a cranky old man

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