The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse!!


I'm not a big Beato fan but he makes some good points at time. This is one of those times IMO. I know some of the younger generation will disagree with the whole premise. Being born in 1951 the boomer gen was hit with the same  indictment about the new Rock & Roll music. There was some truth in it. But we didn't care because we liked R&R. I expect the same from some today who like today's music. but I think if you listen you may find some morsels which can be enlightening. This is especially true for musicians who may find they agree wholeheartedly..

The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse

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A lot of modern music is catchy, tuneful, danceable, and memorable.

 

It’s also pure crap production-wise. It’s pitch corrected, auto-tuned to an inch of its life, quantized without fail and is mechanical and lifeless.

Let’s now add artificial "drums", synthesized guitar, a bunch of programmed loops and every Pro-Tools "plug-in" imaginable and it becomes a certifiable dumpster fire.

 

Case in point is Billie Eilish. I love her songs. However, her music is almost un-listenable, production-wise. On a bluetooth speaker across the room it’s fine. On anything approaching hi-fi it’s a complete mess.

 

That’s my reason why modern music is garbage. It’s good songs ruined by crappy production.

This and several other recent threads beg to be answered with, "OK, Boomer." 

 

This has lost you all your credibility.  I'm not a boomer.

And the kids (or even adults) who start or finish their phrases with insult for the previous generations have no credibility to their arguments because at that point it degenerates to name calling.
There are a lot of valid points in the video and in here.  And make no mistake, today's music is absolute crap 99% of the time for many of the reasons cited in the video.  The biggest culprits to me are the new -tech "tools" that are abused and misused.  The tools are:

Auto-tune, pitch correction, quantization, Pro-Tools (and it's million plugins) and GarageBand, which makes every rank amateur musician a worse recording artist and even worse studio producer.

Think about it, most charting songs today are assembled in the studio as fragments from hundreds of takes, often times taking single notes from a take to insert into other takes and those songs are more assemblages of blocks than they are performances.  Every edit subtracts from the whole.  This has been the case since some clever studio engineer figured out how to splice tape.