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<blockquote data-quote="RichardCranium" data-source="post: 1266673" data-attributes="member: 9162">Yes. 100% yes. Little background I'm 51 and have been a musician most of my life. Been making a living the past 8 years strictly from music and I've studied with several top teachers. Today's music is shit. I hate to think I'm turning into a crotchety old man going &quot;these kids today don't know music&quot; but you can't help it.&nbsp; It's been a couple of things that accelerated the downfall. There's always been good music and shit music but never like it is today.One thing is the advances in technology is now anyone can sit on her laptop now and create music. Back in the day you had to actually save up money and going to a real recording studio and that set the bar higher. Nowadays just about anyone can cut-and-paste a couple of things together and call it a song. The other thing is the popularity of rap, hip hop and electronic music has certainly done a number on quality listening. To watch the likes of Carly B and mumble rappers make it big when 20 years ago they would've just been absolutely laughed at and told go home and practice is absurd. They are literally the Karsashians of music and I really question the sanity of anybody that would listen to that dreck.I had a humbling conversation recently talking to a millennial kid he was probably 22-23. He asked me what I did and I said I'm a musician. He said &quot;Oh so you make beats?&quot; I said no I play guitar and play music. He was totally bewildered and had no idea what I was talking about. I literally had tho show him pictures going see there's me with my guitar, there's the drummer, there's the singer and we actually play music. He had no clue and I said at that moment oh man we're fucked. I can see him going &quot;that's cool but I don't listen to old people music&quot; but to literally not even have a clue about how music is made just really threw me for a loop.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RichardCranium, post: 1266673, member: 9162"] Yes. 100% yes. Little background I'm 51 and have been a musician most of my life. Been making a living the past 8 years strictly from music and I've studied with several top teachers. Today's music is shit. I hate to think I'm turning into a crotchety old man going "these kids today don't know music" but you can't help it. It's been a couple of things that accelerated the downfall. There's always been good music and shit music but never like it is today. One thing is the advances in technology is now anyone can sit on her laptop now and create music. Back in the day you had to actually save up money and going to a real recording studio and that set the bar higher. Nowadays just about anyone can cut-and-paste a couple of things together and call it a song. The other thing is the popularity of rap, hip hop and electronic music has certainly done a number on quality listening. To watch the likes of Carly B and mumble rappers make it big when 20 years ago they would've just been absolutely laughed at and told go home and practice is absurd. They are literally the Karsashians of music and I really question the sanity of anybody that would listen to that dreck. I had a humbling conversation recently talking to a millennial kid he was probably 22-23. He asked me what I did and I said I'm a musician. He said "Oh so you make beats?" I said no I play guitar and play music. He was totally bewildered and had no idea what I was talking about. I literally had tho show him pictures going see there's me with my guitar, there's the drummer, there's the singer and we actually play music. He had no clue and I said at that moment oh man we're fucked. I can see him going "that's cool but I don't listen to old people music" but to literally not even have a clue about how music is made just really threw me for a loop. [/QUOTE]

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