The Official "Music Was So Much Better in the Glorious Days of Yore" Thread

[MusicNewb1981]

Originally Posted by mordwyr

OK, I get your point...but I am artistic as well as analytical, lots of artists are by the way. I can post samples of my poetry and my music if you like. Here is a poem I'm writing off the top of my head:

Kindergaarten Baby Born in the Navy

Her smell was like that of the musk
of a gentrified mare in the August sun
Her skin was like a weathered scare crow
Dilapidated from months of humidity
The Scare crows not confusing it
For anything living
She was old and I was three
And this picture was placed under me
For me to wonder the nature of old age
And what it meant me
Was as frightening and incomprehensible
as Cyrillic to the Average American
During the Cold War

You see, that is poetry. I can create it and music like nothing.

My only goal is to reveal something about why current music is not appealing to most people. In fact, the most popular stations in any market in America are oldies stations--Classic Rock, Classic Rap, Classic Hip-Hop, Mo Town, Funk, R&B. I can look up stats on that. This wasn't true in previous generations and it's not accounted for by old people as I and many of piers and younger listen to is.

So, I say follow the money. There are solutions and people are doing them but I will write about that later.