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Originally Posted by hipster duck
That theory, while obviously very biased, is actually quite defensible. New music does suck, even when I try to keep an open mind about it. When I get a chance to talk to younger people about music, they usually talk about how great bands that predate them are, more so than young people did 15-20 years ago.
Music doesn't really anchor a generation as much as it used to, and it's much easier for youth to explore old music through the internet.
Whether bad contemporary music compels people to revisit old favorites, or whether the fact that the subset of youth who care about good music just explore old music, depriving good new artists of an audience and favoring the creation of bad stuff, is a bit of a chicken or egg question.
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My favourite music is from the 80s but lots of good stuff from every decade. There's lots of music I enjoy from the past decade: Grimes, Babymetal, Tamaryn, FKA Twigs, P.S. Eliot/Waxahatchee/Alison Crutchfield, Beach House, Voices from the Lake, Danny Brown, Arcade Fire, the list goes on.
We have a rose coloured glasses view of the past because the good stuff becomes more well-known but the bad stuff has become forgotten over time (as it should be). I grew up in the 90s and there was plenty of crappy music back then, but people don't focus on that crappy music, which is good. Just don't look at only the great music and say that represents all of the music back then, because it doesn't.
People always try too hard romanticise the past instead of enjoying the present. Toronto lost its character because the strip clubs are closing? C'mon... that's just pathetic.