Poll of the Day > Music was so much more important back in the day.

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Sarcasthma posted...

Slap Kim Jong-un's belly for me.

I thought he was dead and his sister just transitioned to replace him?

wolfy42 posted...

I thought he was dead and his sister just transitioned to replace him?

All the easier to slap his belly, then.

Sarcasthma posted...

Slap Kim Jong-un's belly for me.

Last time I tried that they punished me by tying me down and having his sister fart into my mouth

OhhhJa posted...

Last time I tried that they punished me by tying me down and having his sister fart into my mouth

Lucky

OhhhJa posted...

Last time I tried that they punished me by tying me down and having his sister fart into my mouth

Odd they'd use that as a punishment. I'm sure they've looked at your browsing history.

Sarcasthma posted...

Odd they'd use that as a punishment. I'm sure they've looked at your browsing history.

They didn't look at it. That's why they thought it was a punishment

Just imagine the 'punishments' you'll get next time!

Sarcasthma posted...

Just imagine the 'punishments' you'll get next time!

Maybe next time she'll change my diaper

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This thread went to a very unexpected place.

Sarcasthma posted...

Oh yeah, that's a good point.

Does my bringing it up bug you that much? I don't think I actually discuss it all that often, but I guess I don't have many other notable characteristics.

it does not bug me youre fine

Thanks, Kana.

I'm stuck in my ways and very rarely listen to anything out of what I've listened to for years.

Far-Queue posted...

Every generation seems to age out of the next generation's music.

Sure but its happening at a far faster rate than any precious generation. Modern music has become about profits first and the current generation cares more about novelty and branding than technical skill and emotional impact.

wolfy42 posted...

Was it better? Is getting old the reason why new music just doesn't have the same impact?

I can think of a few reasons why.

One is, yes, you're getting old and one of the side effects of that is you remember the more memorable music you experienced when you were younger while forgetting the overwhelming volume of garbage that was playing at the same time. Every once in a while I hear a song from my childhood that wasn't one of the "hits" that's stood the test of time and I think, "Oh, God, I remember this song. Fuck me, who thought this was a good idea?"

Another is that music (and pop culture in general) is a lot more fragmented today. Assuming you grew up in the pre-streaming era, we largely relied on radio stations to distill the massive amounts of new music down into a digestible amount and they would figure out what was popular (or what they were trying to make popular) and repeatedly play that. Contrast that to today, where you literally have access to more music than you could ever listen to in your lifetime, all available for free online. That flexibility is lovely, but it comes at a cost of a loss of cohesion and an inability for "big hits" to truly reach the public zeitgeist the way they used to. In the pre-internet and early internet eras, even when I was out of school I still knew what music/artists were popular, even if I didn't like them; today I don't even know what genre of music is popular, nevermind who the big names and songs are. I'm not even sure there *are* big names and songs anymore - at least, not in the way there used to be when I was younger.

bulbinking posted...

Sure but its happening at a far faster rate than any precious generation. Modern music has become about profits first and the current generation cares more about novelty and branding than technical skill and emotional impact.

Pop music has been profits-first since pop music was a thing. There have always been acts that are less about musicianship and sending a message through their music and more about filling venues and making a buck. I mean, KISS have been at it for like half a century.

Plenty of modern musicians are technically proficient but forego making avant-garde music in favor of accessibility and mass appeal.

And again, if the music doesn't resonate with you, it almost certainly resonates with someone else. Resonates meaning in part that it has emotional impact. Might not impact you, but other people feel certain lyrics and arrangements differently than you do.

People can experience music at certain key points in their life that can create an emotional element that otherwise wouldn't be there. For instance, my mother played guitar and sang and used to play Dust In The Wind by Kansas. She passed away when I was young. I personally don't give a flip about the song, but when I hear it I get a bit melancholy. Perhaps a better example would be Jane's Addiction. Fell in love with a girl in high school and we'd stay up all night talking and making out while she listened to Nothing's Shocking end-to-end. I still get nostalgic when I hear it, even though I'm not the biggest JD fan, and I've moved on from that relationship long ago.

You might not see the appeal in certain musuc, but other people can have an attachment to even the dumbest fucking songs. And that's been true since forever