Shinedown seems like they at least make an attemp to write good songs. I can't say the same for Nickelback.

I don't think there is any way I could list just 10 for an entire decade.

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[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"] what is the musical equivalent of spam?FALLENxANGEL84

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)

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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.

MarioFan264

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

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)

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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.

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

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...

Meh, I think the state of eminem is much like the state of rap music at the moment....it just all feels pretty stale to me. I will say that I liked towards the end when the song fades out and then comes back, that was a little creative at least.