Almost 90% of all mainstream music.

[Hor1zon]

I'm bored so I'm gunna rant.


I hate almost 90% of all mainstream music. Pop is total shit, most "mainstream" house is shit, most dubstep is shit, I can't stand rock and metal.

My reason for hating rock and metal is that it is all the same, for the most part. There are so many bands that all sound so similar.


Will music ever be saved? As long as there are so many retarded people who think lady gaga is good, meaningful music, then no.


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[Rmonik]

I agree about metal and dubstep and really anything that has an elitist group of people thinking they know everything about it, but pop usually meets my standards. It has to, to please that enormous crowd. Production has to be top notch, and you can get away with cheesy, but it has to have a personal touch.

Also, i think Lady Gaga is awesome. :3

[Hor1zon]

I agree about metal and dubstep and really anything that has an elitist group of people thinking they know everything about it, but pop usually meets my standards. It has to, to please that enormous crowd. Production has to be top notch, and you can get away with cheesy, but it has to have a personal touch.

Also, i think Lady Gaga is awesome. :3

Eh. Tbh the only lady gaga song I listen to is poker face. But no one can admit that her music has meaning. All I see is sex, sex, sex, drugs, and more sex.

[JannikR]

Lady Gaga is amazing. I think it's sad that she spends her her talent on doing half-naked shit like pokerface and all that crap, but I guess whatever keeps her money rolling is doing it for her. If I had been working like a stripper I would probably want to earn some real money too.

There is so much talent behind that retarded appearance.
Listen to her voice. Seriously.

[Rmonik]

I kinda like the appearance too. Every artist that wants to stick out of the crowd needs a retarted appearance. And loads of people have been doing it before her. Even veeery talented musicians. In fact, she took a lot of inspiration from Grace Jones i think, for music and for cloathing and appearance.

[Hor1zon]

Ok. I give up.

Lady gaga has a great voice. She does some good songs every once and a while, but for the most part, meaningless garbage.

[izotonik]

I think she shines in this kind of performances. and on the piano too.

some tracks have strange a production. I mean the instrumentals.. like Hair.
producers make the beats for her.

[ReSet]

I don't understand that video at all. They're saying that they found this awesome bassline (meh), and that the structure isn't 'normal' (it definitely is, it goes verse, chorus, break, into the next verse... O.o) and they're all like " OMG MAH HOMIE WE GOT IT THIS SHITS CRAZY", when it really isn't. There is no such thing as 'crazy' pop music, because then it wouldn't appeal to the masses. Aphex, Squarepusher, Forss, they're crazy artists who do weird stuff with music, and look how mainstream they are; not at all.

The thing that annoys me about GaGa is that she has loads of talent, as we've already discussed (she attended NYU's Tisch school of arts, which is pretty damn hard to get into...), but she spends all her efforts making pointlessly long and trivial videos and mediocre dance music. She has more talent than most in the mainstream charts, but squanders it on 4x4 dancey pop that we have too much of anyway.

But the thing I hate most with chart music is the image that you have to have and sustain. Back to GaGa, she claims to be eccentric and crazy, and on the surface, yes she is. I mean, no one in their right mind would literally wear meat, right? And her music videos, they're so profound and artsy. No. The weird fashion taste is an act, and the videos are as pointless and asinine as her music, as I've already said. Take telephone, for example. All this song can be about, is a telephone. In a club. I fail to find any hidden meanings here whatsoever, yet the video is about 20 mins long, involves murdering a load of randomers with food poisoning, and gaga and beyonce being oddly sexual with each other for no reason. What on earth that has to do with anything, least of all a telephone, I have no idea.

It's not just limited to gaga though. There's ke$ha (god i hate that dollar symbol s), the vapid bar skank who sings about clubs and drink and drugs in a very blunt, valley girl manner, who lacks any sort of real personality, and Katy Perry, the smug floozy who's more famous than she has any right to be, considering her complete inability to sing. The main reason she's successful is because she's every 15-27 year old male's poster girl, which is made even more annoying by her baffling ability to pen infuriatingly catchy songs. It's almost as if the last thing you require to make it as a singer these days is an actual singing voice...

Don't even get me started on this whole 'swagger, Mick Jagger' rhyme that everyone uses ad nauseum... eugh.

[Rmonik]

Well what's the problem with trying to appeal to the biggest part of humanity? If she would use her talent to make music with more depth, she wouldn't be nearly as popular, simple because pop is popular, hence the name. And somebody has to do it. I mean, if all talented people would make anything but pop, then pop wouldn't be popular anymore, since it would suck.

I kinda disagree with the norm that music has to be interesting, new, layered, ... to be good. Music needs to sound good. If it does, it does.

[izotonik]

I think that Gaga should have been a jazz singer. more eclectic. but she wanted to be pop... and now she's a kind of a slave, fulfilling the fetishes of her weird fashion designer friends!
whatever.

mainstream music is more business than art. the music quality speaks for itself most of the time. some is great, some is pure crap.
labels just want commercially viable artists. the more dynamic and the less opinative they are, the better.
sing baby sing.. and cash in