Sorry but I called a spade a spade. Bad product is simply an opinion from the angry grandpa's of the world who think nothing good exists outside of their limited bubble. Old people not willing to progress. It's not that they can't, they just refuse to. There is a reason why businesses seek out younger less expensive talent in an array of industries and it's for this very reason.
Nonsense. I love Tame Impala, great band. But unlike my 14 year old son who thinks its something fresh and new I can trace their roots back through Radiohead to Jellyfish to Squeeze to World Party to ELO to The Beatles to Velvet Underground. Is Tame Impala good? Yes. Would I simply die if their music was taken away from me? No. It's not inventive. It's not hearing Elvis for the first time. It's Jellyfish 3.0. It's nice, it's not necessary. For my son, I've got no less than 100 fantastic songs that would satisfy his Tame Impala curiosity. I don't need to spend $120 a year for the privilege.
Genre's are just that labels. There was no EDM label put on songs before the 1990's. Rap and hip hop as a genre didn't exist before the 1980's. "Pop" music genre didn't exist before the Michael Jackson in the 1980's. So lets just stop with the whole all the genres are the same as before. Rock and Alternative and R&B is in HUGE decline in terms of radio audience as is R&B. EDM and HipHop and "Genre inspired Pop music" and Hip-Hop/EDM inspired R&B & Rap dominate radio now.
Thanks for proving my point. Your examples of "look at all the new genre's!" goes back to 1990 which was 25 years ago. And Rap and Hip Hop get 90% of their spark from ripping licks and phrases from songs going back 20 years before
that.
If the music in earlier generations was so great than the newer generations would buy it. Instead they aren't buying it or consuming it. They are consuming the newer music at a lower cost. The music business has to change. They went from charging way too much for music to charging way too little for it. I think Spotify came in too low devaluing other people's product and hard work. The entertainment industry is largely inept when it comes to technological advances. Spotify doesn't even make enough to pay its own bills let alone enough to feed the artists who create the content.
Stop with the "whoa the poor artists" stuff, it's completely misguided. The record industry used to use Radio as a way to promote their new music; today, what we call "Radio" is the actual product people want, not the physical media or file download. Pandora, iTunes Radio, iHeart Radio, YouTube, music is free because the record companies keep giving it away and consumers aren't dumb enough to buy the new Maroon 5 song because a) they know they can listen to it whenever they want for free and b) it sounds like hundreds of other pop/soul songs which they can listen to on a custom Pandora station for free.
Today's youth is marginally excited about new songs and new artists, not new genre's, considering no new genre's have emerged since 1990. And none of those artists can fill a stadium like in the old days. Today, young people go to these weekend festivals to do drugs and get laid, the music is just an excuse to hook up.
Add it all up and:
1. No new Genre's emerged since 1990.
2. There aren't grumpy old people who are against anything because there is no Elvis breaking barriers.
3. Record companies are stupid for giving their product away for free and expecting payment.
4. Today's music can be good but sounds exactly like last year's and last decades music.
5. Subscription "streaming services" is code for "paid radio" and that doesn't fly.
BJ
