What Are Your Opinions On The Current State of The Music Industry?

I turn on the radio and i'm embarassed as a muscian to call what i'm hearing music. Thats all i can really say about it. :(

It's enough to make someone go insane, the only decent radio station is the classic rock station.

90% sucks...

i still don't see how rap made it off the black board

i still don't see how rap made it off the black board

k2theswiss

Probably because it can be awesome sometimes.

i listen to the radio sometimes

its somewhat good

Why are most of the posts here assuming that radio = entire music industry? JML897

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heORiZ8l484

this ...

Too many artists are being restricted by their agencies and new artists are too eager to sign with them.

I only find good music on youtube.

As a classically trained musician, I find it horrible. Luckily it is kept alive with a few bands and such, but overall its just pitiful.

As a classically trained musician, I find it horrible. Luckily it is kept alive with a few bands and such, but overall its just pitiful.

Grodus5

i know BVB gutarist Jinxx is a classically-trained concert violinist.

and BVB is not really "liked"

so maybe its just different people like different things

All of the big record labels will either make massive changes or go extinct. In ten years, the way music is made and distributed will be much, much different. Also, the radio has never been very good. I don't know why people think that generic radio music is something new.

Some new acts are good. It depends on what radio stations you expose yourself to. I listen to BBC Radio 2 and every so often they'll play a track from a new artist that's really good. Thankfully they don't play much crap.

But yeah, a lot of what's hot in the charts seems to be R&B (yawn). I'm waiting for the trend of the late 80s/90s to return so we can get some rock/metal back on mainstream radio/TV.

Everything that is old is new again

Sad, horrifying, and wrong.

Most of it is garbage, but you can still find a new song every now and then that is really good.

I am disappoint.

It's no longer about the music, it's who can sell the most soft-core porn.

It's pretty good. Immortal, Burzum and Gorgoroth have released recent albums that were pretty good. Abbath is writing songs for the new I album-- so that's something to look forward to.

I don't listen to the Radio anymore, but yeah for the most part, its pretty terrible.C-Lee

[QUOTE="C-Lee"]I don't listen to the Radio anymore, but yeah for the most part, its pretty terrible.lightleggy

[QUOTE="lightleggy"][QUOTE="C-Lee"]I don't listen to the Radio anymore, but yeah for the most part, its pretty terrible.aaronmullan

Its really bad. Majority of the good bands are in their 40's/50's now as well, we need another wave of great bands to breakthrough or we're gonna be doomed pretty soon.

[QUOTE="aaronmullan"][QUOTE="lightleggy"] like greenday...omg I could say a bunch of bad things about green day but I believe I would get banned for saying it...lightleggy

In the defense of Green Day, every album up to "Insomniac" were quite good.

Music? Thats what they call it now adays?

That isn't music.

I don't listen to the radio anymore because the music pretty much sucks.

Music? Thats what they call it now adays?

That isn't music.

I don't listen to the radio anymore because the music pretty much sucks.

Ryan_Kitchen

The type of stuff played on the radio is a really small portion of all the music being released today.

As someone who listens to Spanish-language music, I don't like today's music. With some exceptions, I barely find songs worth looking over thanks to reggaeton and banda, but luckily the former is dying out.

It's clearly better than it's ever been before. Most of the music from the 80's and 70's was just noise made by druggies.

The music is alright, but the "It's Popular, Now/So It Sucks" creed makes me sick.

Most popular music is awful, that's why I listen to stuff that's not really on most people's radar. Music from people like Spoon, The Secret Handshake, MC Lars, and Shwayze.

"the music industry" is a pretty broad term. Some of it is is wonderful, some of it sucks I would say.

I don't know whyI have my radio on all the time and it's on the rap station playing mainstream music:|

I really prefer old school rap:x

Look into everything NOT on the radio. Foreign bands (outside of the US, i mean) are usually very good. Every generation had it's own share of crappy/overplayed music

One name: P. Diddy.

It's too single and digitally driven. It takes away from honest, creative songwriters who have yet to be discovered, as well as completely shuts out other genres of music. The fact that singles are the core of music sales keeps the music industry and mainstream artists stagnant by limiting what elements they can and cannot include in a single (usually it degenerates into an ababcba song structure with a hook in the first 30 seconds). It's really quite pathetic, especially the way the industry acts like they 'own' the music itself.