Music was better when I used to look at the back of an album and the credits were like a dozen people. I’m sorry to people who like Beyonce, Gaga etc. But you look at their albums and they have hundreds of writers, engineers, producers, mixers, etc. What do these celebrities actually do anymore? Just show up and read the lines and the crew takes care of the rest? I’m sorry but that to me isn’t a good artist or musician, that’s just manufactured branding.
Video killed the radio star
Podcasts are literally a thing
Politics too
Beauty is, of course, in the eye of the beholder, but this is Richard Goodall. He’s a school janitor in my town of Terre Haute, Indiana and he just won America’s Got Talent. He will probably have at least a somewhat successful musical career after this. He really blew people away.
I’d like to thank this thread for reminding me to check out some new music. Just today, I have discovered MJ Lenderman and Still House Plants who both seem to be doing some cool stuff that’s right up my alley. There’s a new Mogwai track released a few days back and Sumac just released an amazing sludge metal album, even though I’m not really into sludge, it might convert me. A quick few image searches shows me that none of them are particularly attractive. Music has always been, and always will be awesome regardless of the physical appeal of the lead singers.
I want the milkman to deliver my milk… in the myorning.
Come to Daddy
They aren’t even ugly, they’re just beautiful in a different way than media accepts.
“Ugly” people still make music but apparently you don’t listen to it. Shameful, tbh.
Ugly people
are stillhave always been making it, pop acts have just make a pretty person pretend to sing it it sells better.I am convinced that producers go out with a company checkbook and standard boilerplate, find acts that have good songs, then buy the rights to those songs.
They then give the songs to larger pop artists and never credit the original artist because there is no need. They likely pay well for a decent song.
They pay song writers to create songs.
They do.
It’s extremely rare that people like Taylor Swift get as big as she is from writing her own songs.There are actual classes you can take on how to write pop songs, taught by people who made pop artists big.
just figured out, what? pop has always been pretty people…
“music was better when…”
Any version of this makes the speaker sound suuuper old and bitter. 😂
tbh we are all just snapshots of ourselves at different stage of the same cycle. The Simpsons did a whole thing about lolapalooza which starts with homer looking for his favourite artists in a record store, and the record store dude, and being directed to the oldies section.
The bands that feature in that episode are the smashing pumpkins, soundgarden , cypress Hill and Peter Frampton, all of whom appear in Spotify old school lists
Oh sure, everything new becomes old eventually, that’s just how time works. I’m more poking fun at those who let their nostalgia determine what is worthwhile.
My highschool music is better than your highschool music!
Music was way better when the musicians snorted the good ol yayo.
I had a luthier tell me how much was much better before the record. How artists would perform live and have to do their best in these performances.
Once records came around all the artists sold out and it has been downhill from there.
“Ok, can I have my guitar back, please…”
Nah, generally yes, but this particular follow up is hilarious. When ugly people made it haha
At least he doesnt like all newer music simply because the artist look better.
Shake hands with beef ;-)
Primus sucks
^ Uses 80s iconography to make fun of GenX’s parents.
Isn’t it ironic?
Depends if you ask a linguist or Alanis Morissette
Glad you caught the reference. Wouldn’t it technically be irony in both cases?
What do you mean? there are plenty of British recording artists
Ah yes, ugly singers like:
Elvis Presley
Frank Sinatra
John Bon Jovi
Freddie Mercury
Aretha FranklinDon’t forget Serge Gainsbourg
Smash
That is quite the name
Which one?
Yes