Yet it just keeps finding ways to get worse.

"god damn where did we go wrong?/
Now there's a category for every song!" - Justin Furstenfeld

I agree people like categorise music too much. Kinda gets in the way of the piece. Though I think I've mentioned this before.

I always brace myself whenever I hear "this generation of music" or some variant of it used in a sentence, because I just know it's going to lead into a rant about how awful music is today and how "it just ain't what it used to be". And it's a teenager saying these things far more often than it should be. I feel like it's oh so very symptomatic of the obliviousness we as a collective generation have toward the tools we have at our disposal.

It's far too easy to take already-revered idols of the past, put them on a pedestal of your own, and wear them as a badge of social honor. I saw it all the time in high school with all the Led Zeppelin and Beatles t-shirts; there was so much of it that it practically came across to me as an unspoken courtship ritual. A lot of the "cool loser" types in high school I noticed loved to idolize old music.

Personally, while I have nothing but respect for my predecessors, a lot of music from decades ago just sort of falls flat for me. I suppose growing up with a family that worshiped classic rock didn't do me any favors on that front.

Complain all you want about how 00's music sucks next to the 50's and 60's, but keep in mind that the entire 20th century sucks next to the 1600s-1800s.

Carly Rae Jepsen is very good, mind you

If you're referring to her ass then sure.

It doesn't if you like Rock n Roll, or Jazz, or Blues, or Electronica, or Pop, or Metal or Punk, or Soul ....or quite a lot of things actually.

it's so lame to think like that though? lol. stop listening to the radio if you don't like it. we're in the technology era, it's not hard to go onto youtube and find something you like. and yeah, check out these inspiration and beautiful 2pac lyrics:
"First off, **** your bitch
And the clique you claim
West side when we ride
Come equipped with game
You claim to be a player
But I ****ed your wife"

i actually really like and i've never heard it until now, thanks for sharing it!


mainstream pop is pretty ****e (when hasn't it been?) but there's so much good music right now. Fleet Foxes, they're like a modern Beach Boys Pet Sounds era mixed with Crosby, Stills & Nash. Yeah Yeah Yeahs are like Blondie but better. Jack White is the guitarist of our generation. Alabama Shakes, they're new but they've got a cool blues thing going. City and Colour is a modern Neil Young. Adele has one of the greatest voices right now. The Black Keys are also obviously blues/rock n roll influenced. The Sheepdogs are southern rock... and there's countless others who have their own original sound, ie Florence + the Machine, The Kills, Beach House, The XX, Tegan and Sara, etc. not to mention there's tons of underground artists who rap about more than ****ing bitches and smoking weed. it's all there, you just have to look for it. i hate that people can't see that there are great artists right now and they're stuck in the past, what's worse is that 90% of the people with that mindset are teenagers. it's pretty pathetic lol. tl;dr this generation has awesome music.

I actually enjoy a lot of music that has been released in the last 10 to 12 years. Keep in mind that the 00's isn't all about mainstream music. There's been a bunch of my favorite bands like Theocracy, Trivium, Megadeth, and the like that have released albums during the 20th century and have kicked ass.