I'm 24 years old and I say music today is indeed horrifyingly, cataclysmically, apocalyptically craptacular. I've been saying that since I was a teenager, when post-Nirvana glory faded from view, hip hop took over the charts, and emo took over what passes for rock.
Every time I hear Fall Out Boy or anything like them, I feel like I just stepped in something. Every time I hear the mind-numbing mass-produced beats and lyrics of hip hop, I want to scream out "Why?! Why?!" I want to grab the nearest idiot listening to rap, shake them, and demand to know why they're listening to it; and why they're making me listen to it by playing it out loud in their car with the windows open.
Virtually all good music made in the past decade has come either from continuing '90s bands, or new bands created from the fusion of earlier artists (e.g., Audioslave). Mine is truly an aesthetically dead generation--they can never and will never create music with the sense of freedom, joy, and magic embodied in the best of previous decades. They're not "whippersnappers," they're hardwired post-human automatons who listen to "music-flavored product" for anesthesia.
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I'm 24 years old and I say music today is indeed horrifyingly, cataclysmically, apocalyptically craptacular. I've been saying that since I was a teenager, when post-Nirvana glory faded from view, hip hop took over the charts, and emo took over what passes for rock. Every time I hear Fall Out Boy or anything like them, I feel like I just stepped in something. Every time I hear the mind-numbing mass-produced beats and lyrics of hip hop, I want to scream out "Why?! Why?!" I want to grab the nearest idiot listening to rap, shake them, and demand to know why they're listening to it; and why they're making me listen to it by playing it out loud in their car with the windows open. Virtually all good music made in the past decade has come either from continuing '90s bands, or new bands created from the fusion of earlier artists (e.g., Audioslave). Mine is truly an aesthetically dead generation--they can never and will never create music with the sense of freedom, joy, and magic embodied in the best of previous decades. They're not "whippersnappers," they're hardwired post-human automatons who listen to "music-flavored product" for anesthesia.