Anyone Else Mad at the Current State of the Music Industry?

I am a 15 year old guy and can't understand what most teens my age find so amazing about all this rap music. It just doesn't WOW me and i can't find any entertainment value from it. Sure i'll listen to tec and hip hop... at a dance, not while i'm sitting in my room on my computer. As a musician this also angers me, because I know for a fact that the people making this "music" are barely of any musical backround and just know how to rhyme a few curse words together about sex, drugs, or any other steriotypical **** that society is coming to accept as normal. I'd way rather listen to a solid album, like Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony",(Greatest Band Ever IMO), that expresses what the artist feels about life, and experiences, and what is truly important. What is even more depressing, is that kids younger than their teen years are looking up to artists like Kesha and not knowing what their songs really mean or the innuendos that are placed in them.

I know this may sound like a rant, which in a way it is, and i'm sorry if I have offended anyone who likes this kind of music, you're entitled to your own opinion. I just want to know if anyone is on my side?

Today's music is centered around one thing and one thing only........ Money

and this is why i stick to Classical and some kind of metal and such

no rap nor pop trash

None of it really gets to me, and if I find the world goes hip-hop mad and any other type of music comes to a sudden stop, then i'll make it myself. But we know that won't happen, because there are millions of people who would feel the same way, so I won't be alone, so the music won't stop.

Today's music is centered around one thing and one thing only........ Money

and this is why i stick to Classical and some kind of metal and such

no rap nor pop trash

Quaker-w00ts

As soon as Miss May I's new album comes out i'll be happy.

Nope, I happier than ever. Now is a great time to be a hip-hop fan, so many good artist getting out their names.

I am a 15 year old guy and can't understand what most teens my age find so amazing about all this rap music. It just doesn't WOW me and i can't find any entertainment value from it. Sure i'll listen to tec and hip hop... at a dance, not while i'm sitting in my room on my computer. As a musician this also angers me, because I know for a fact that the people making this "music" are barely of any musical backround and just know how to rhyme a few curse words together about sex, drugs, or any other steriotypical **** that society is coming to accept as normal. I'd way rather listen to a solid album, like Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony",(Greatest Band Ever IMO), that expresses what the artist feels about life, and experiences, and what is truly important. What is even more depressing, is that kids younger than their teen years are looking up to artists like Kesha and not knowing what their songs really mean or the innuendos that are placed in them.

I know this may sound like a rant, which in a way it is, and i'm sorry if I have offended anyone who likes this kind of music, you're entitled to your own opinion. I just want to know if anyone is on my side?

FALLENxANGEL84

There's so much good music out there you just need to look. It's not hard.

Seeing as how there is so much different varying genres out there now more than ever. I don't know what there is to complain about.

I was really agreeing with what you were saying until you got to that Breaking Benjamin point. :|auron_16

I am a 15 year old guy and can't understand what most teens my age find so amazing about all this rap music. It just doesn't WOW me and i can't find any entertainment value from it. Sure i'll listen to tec and hip hop... at a dance, not while i'm sitting in my room on my computer. As a musician this also angers me, because I know for a fact that the people making this "music" are barely of any musical backround and just know how to rhyme a few curse words together about sex, drugs, or any other steriotypical **** that society is coming to accept as normal. I'd way rather listen to a solid album, like Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony",(Greatest Band Ever IMO), that expresses what the artist feels about life, and experiences, and what is truly important. What is even more depressing, is that kids younger than their teen years are looking up to artists like Kesha and not knowing what their songs really mean or the innuendos that are placed in them.

I know this may sound like a rant, which in a way it is, and i'm sorry if I have offended anyone who likes this kind of music, you're entitled to your own opinion. I just want to know if anyone is on my side?

FALLENxANGEL84

That is where I lost you.

Their is some legitimate hip hop that has some artistic value (check out Nas and Marley's new album distant relatives) you just got to look.

Breaking Benjamin to me has the same problem that many artists of the hip hop genre have, obviously just for a different market. They would rather release the same album over and over focusing on all the same emotions because that is what will sell and make everyone a lot of money. I liked we are not alone, but everything I have heard since then sounds the exact same to me...

[QUOTE="auron_16"]I was really agreeing with what you were saying until you got to that Breaking Benjamin point. :|FALLENxANGEL84

[QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"]

I am a 15 year old guy and can't understand what most teens my age find so amazing about all this rap music. It just doesn't WOW me and i can't find any entertainment value from it. Sure i'll listen to tec and hip hop... at a dance, not while i'm sitting in my room on my computer. As a musician this also angers me, because I know for a fact that the people making this "music" are barely of any musical backround and just know how to rhyme a few curse words together about sex, drugs, or any other steriotypical **** that society is coming to accept as normal. I'd way rather listen to a solid album, like Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony",(Greatest Band Ever IMO), that expresses what the artist feels about life, and experiences, and what is truly important. What is even more depressing, is that kids younger than their teen years are looking up to artists like Kesha and not knowing what their songs really mean or the innuendos that are placed in them.

I know this may sound like a rant, which in a way it is, and i'm sorry if I have offended anyone who likes this kind of music, you're entitled to your own opinion. I just want to know if anyone is on my side?

Plzhelpmelearn

That is where I lost you.

Their is some legitimate hip hop that has some artistic value (check out Nas and Marley's new album distant relatives) you just got to look.

Breaking Benjamin to me has the same problem that many artists of the hip hop genre have, obviously just for a different market. They would rather release the same album over and over focusing on all the same emotions because that is what will sell and make everyone a lot of money.

You know what I hate? When people complain aboutcertain typesof music not being popular or accepted, but they pirate CDs. By you downloading CDsit hurts sales.

Less albums sold =bad business for record companies.

They're not going to promote something that they aren't going to make billions off of.

I am more tired of every song having the same exact kind of design. They all seem to have the same ups and downs and none of them seem to have any understandable lyrics.

I was just thinking, what are the current "classic" songs that we will hear on the oldies station in 30 years? Lady Gaga? :? Justin Beiber? :o Seriously, there doesn't seem to be anything of any real quality.

You know what I hate? When people complain aboutcertain typesof music not being popular or accepted, but they pirate CDs. By you downloading CDsit hurts sales.

Less albums sold =bad business for record companies.

They're not going to promote something that they aren't going to make billions off of.

bruinfan617

I am a 15 year old guy and can't understand what most teens my age find so amazing about all this rap music. It just doesn't WOW me and i can't find any entertainment value from it.

FALLENxANGEL84

Yeah, that's your opinion. Which is great and all, but just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it's crap.

[QUOTE="Plzhelpmelearn"]

[QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"]

I am a 15 year old guy and can't understand what most teens my age find so amazing about all this rap music. It just doesn't WOW me and i can't find any entertainment value from it. Sure i'll listen to tec and hip hop... at a dance, not while i'm sitting in my room on my computer. As a musician this also angers me, because I know for a fact that the people making this "music" are barely of any musical backround and just know how to rhyme a few curse words together about sex, drugs, or any other steriotypical **** that society is coming to accept as normal. I'd way rather listen to a solid album, like Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony",(Greatest Band Ever IMO), that expresses what the artist feels about life, and experiences, and what is truly important. What is even more depressing, is that kids younger than their teen years are looking up to artists like Kesha and not knowing what their songs really mean or the innuendos that are placed in them.

I know this may sound like a rant, which in a way it is, and i'm sorry if I have offended anyone who likes this kind of music, you're entitled to your own opinion. I just want to know if anyone is on my side?

FALLENxANGEL84

That is where I lost you.

Their is some legitimate hip hop that has some artistic value (check out Nas and Marley's new album distant relatives) you just got to look.

Breaking Benjamin to me has the same problem that many artists of the hip hop genre have, obviously just for a different market. They would rather release the same album over and over focusing on all the same emotions because that is what will sell and make everyone a lot of money.

Today, almost a vast majority (not all) of the music is bad.....in every genre, not just in rap.

I'd rather listen to glam rock hair bands I grew up on than today's rock and faux metal.

I am more tired of every song having the same exact kind of design. They all seem to have the same ups and downs and none of them seem to have any understandable lyrics.

I was just thinking, what are the current "classic" songs that we will hear on the oldies station in 30 years? Lady Gaga? :? Justin Beiber? :o Seriously, there doesn't seem to be anything of any real quality.

hoola

You know what I hate? When people complain aboutcertain typesof music not being popular or accepted, but they pirate CDs. By you downloading CDsit hurts sales.

Less albums sold =bad business for record companies.

They're not going to promote something that they aren't going to make billions off of.

[QUOTE="hoola"]

I am more tired of every song having the same exact kind of design. They all seem to have the same ups and downs and none of them seem to have any understandable lyrics.

I was just thinking, what are the current "classic" songs that we will hear on the oldies station in 30 years? Lady Gaga? :? Justin Beiber? :o Seriously, there doesn't seem to be anything of any real quality.

Plzhelpmelearn

[QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"][QUOTE="Plzhelpmelearn"]

That is where I lost you.

Their is some legitimate hip hop that has some artistic value (check out Nas and Marley's new album distant relatives) you just got to look.

Breaking Benjamin to me has the same problem that many artists of the hip hop genre have, obviously just for a different market. They would rather release the same album over and over focusing on all the same emotions because that is what will sell and make everyone a lot of money.

the_new_guy_92

[QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"]

I am a 15 year old guy and can't understand what most teens my age find so amazing about all this rap music. It just doesn't WOW me and i can't find any entertainment value from it.

MarioFan264

Yeah, that's your opinion. Which is great and all, but just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it's crap.

[QUOTE="MarioFan264"]

[QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"]

I am a 15 year old guy and can't understand what most teens my age find so amazing about all this rap music. It just doesn't WOW me and i can't find any entertainment value from it.

Plzhelpmelearn

Yeah, that's your opinion. Which is great and all, but just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it's crap.

[QUOTE="MarioFan264"]

[QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"]

I am a 15 year old guy and can't understand what most teens my age find so amazing about all this rap music. It just doesn't WOW me and i can't find any entertainment value from it.

Plzhelpmelearn

Yeah, that's your opinion. Which is great and all, but just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it's crap.

Apparently you aren't all for people having different opinions.

Opinions do not suck, until people start claiming they are fact, like you.

[QUOTE="Plzhelpmelearn"][QUOTE="MarioFan264"]

Yeah, that's your opinion. Which is great and all, but just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it's crap.

the_new_guy_92

[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"][QUOTE="Plzhelpmelearn"] It might....I'm all for people having different opinions, but if your opinion is that you enjoy the musical equivalent of leftover spam that is being fed to you for the third day in a row after being reheated in the microwave, then it is fair to say that your opinion sucks. FALLENxANGEL84

So I'm assuming you have listened to each and every one of them.

[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"][QUOTE="Plzhelpmelearn"] It might....I'm all for people having different opinions, but if your opinion is that you enjoy the musical equivalent of leftover spam that is being fed to you for the third day in a row after being reheated in the microwave, then it is fair to say that your opinion sucks. FALLENxANGEL84

Jay-Z - The Blueprint

Jay-Z - The Black Album

Nas - Stillmatic

Eminem - The Eminem Show

Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

and these are just from mainstream hip-hop artist, throw in the hundred underground acts making good music and you have tons of great music.

I think you're just going through your teen music elitist stage.

also LMFAO at a 15 year old complaining about "Every rap album that came out for the last 10 years"

you must have been like 5 when The chronic and Blueprint were released llollolol get out of here.

[QUOTE="Plzhelpmelearn"][QUOTE="MarioFan264"]

Yeah, that's your opinion. Which is great and all, but just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it's crap.

the_new_guy_92

Talented and creative musicianship

Creative songwriting: ex. melody, harmony, rhythm, etc

Thoughtful/meaningful lyrics

If you examine most of the music you hear on popular radio today you will find very little of any of that. Maybe "I hate everything about you. Why do I love you?" and "this is why I'm hot, I don't have to rap" strikes a chord in some, but it is usually easy to tell when a song has been crafted with care versus when it has been designed and produced to sell in mass quantities for the public consumption (spam)

[QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"]

[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"] what is the musical equivalent of spam?the_new_guy_92

[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"][QUOTE="Plzhelpmelearn"] It might....I'm all for people having different opinions, but if your opinion is that you enjoy the musical equivalent of leftover spam that is being fed to you for the third day in a row after being reheated in the microwave, then it is fair to say that your opinion sucks. Plzhelpmelearn

Talented and creative musicianship

Creative songwriting: ex. melody, harmony, rhythm, etc

Thoughtful/meaningful lyrics

If you examine most of the music you hear on popular radio today you will find very little of any of that. Maybe "I hate everything about you. Why do I love you?" and "this is why I'm hot, I don't have to rap" strikes a chord in some, but it is usually easy to tell when a song has been crafted with care versus when it has been designed and produced to sell in mass quantities for the public consumption (spam)

also LMFAO at a 15 year old complaining about "Every rap album that came out for the last 10 years"

you must have been like 5 when The chronic and Blueprint were released llollolol get out of here.

JPOBS

[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"][QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"] Every rap album that came out for the last 10 years

FALLENxANGEL84

[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"][QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"] Every rap album that came out for the last 10 years

FALLENxANGEL84

[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"][QUOTE="Plzhelpmelearn"] It might....I'm all for people having different opinions, but if your opinion is that you enjoy the musical equivalent of leftover spam that is being fed to you for the third day in a row after being reheated in the microwave, then it is fair to say that your opinion sucks. Plzhelpmelearn

Talented and creative musicianship

Creative songwriting: ex. melody, harmony, rhythm, etc

Thoughtful/meaningful lyrics

If you examine most of the music you hear on popular radio today you will find very little of any of that. Maybe "I hate everything about you. Why do I love you?" and "this is why I'm hot, I don't have to rap" strikes a chord in some, but it is usually easy to tell when a song has been crafted with care versus when it has been designed and produced to sell in mass quantities for the public consumption (spam)

Most of it is bad but you can still find alot of hidden gems out there.

[QUOTE="FALLENxANGEL84"][QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"] Please... Jay-Z - The Blueprint Jay-Z - The Black Album Nas - Stillmatic Eminem - The Eminem Show Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below and these are just from mainstream hip-hop artist, throw in the hundred underground acts making good music and you have tons of great music. I think you're just going through your teen music elitist stage.the_new_guy_92