[TOTW] Is mainstream music becoming worse?

I think one of the main differences between mainstream music today and older music is that the older stuff has more natural melodic and chordal tendencies. This makes it sound more composed and thus more respectable... but not always better.

Most mainstream music fights these natural tendencies in an attempt to sound more fresh.

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Also, the other main difference is musicianship... both in style and quality.

Last Edit: September 24, 2008, 01:00:07 am by Sine

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Ragnar

#64 September 24, 2008, 01:38:21 am

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what is a T-Pain

also a while back I listened to some 70's-60's retro station on Winamp and there were a bunch of bands nobody would know like who the hell were THE ORANGUTANS and they all sounded like hey I Wanna Hold Your Hand was a really cool song let's make every single one of our songs like that

Also I don't think it's so much the music itself that's annoying it's that it's fucking everywhere and it INSISTS UPON ITSELF I know Peter from Family Guy made that up but I think I know what he means

Edit: Seriously wtf is a T-Pain at least Ice-T was a real thing and it was clever wordplay

Last Edit: September 24, 2008, 01:42:27 am by Ragnar

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#65 September 24, 2008, 08:04:34 pm

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Quote from: Ragnar on September 24, 2008, 01:38:21 am

what is a T-Pain

a nickname. Who says all nicknames have to make sense or be some sort of 'clever' wordplay that everyone understands? It probably has something to do with the facts that he's from Tallahassee and at one point or another brought the pain.

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#66 September 25, 2008, 05:47:11 am

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Man, remember "beach" rock bands from the 60's? They are always featured in terrible vintage beach horror movies. A classic is the Horror Of Party Beach. Just looked it up, it was the Del-Aires.

Awful, awful stuff.

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#67 September 25, 2008, 01:00:06 pm

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Quote from: DietCoke on September 24, 2008, 08:04:34 pm

a nickname. Who says all nicknames have to make sense or be some sort of 'clever' wordplay that everyone understands? It probably has something to do with the facts that he's from Tallahassee and at one point or another brought the pain.

no rappers should all have puns like 2pac...um...how about Notorious B.I.G. ....um...

VANILLA ICE?????THE ICE IS WHITE???

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#68 September 25, 2008, 01:29:37 pm

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Maybe it's just that those are the ones I remember (rappers with puns in their names)

but even with your explanation I think T-pain sounds like MAX PAYNE or something

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#69 September 25, 2008, 01:31:54 pm

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you said ICE-T what other rappers have pun names.

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#70 September 25, 2008, 01:59:32 pm

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heh Big als got a thing or two to say about todays music....

oh you forgot retards attempting poetry........

hope yall got enlightened im out

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#71 September 25, 2008, 02:40:39 pm

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That fat cunt is fucking awful

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#72 September 25, 2008, 02:42:25 pm

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big al is racist a fuck. he actually made a video IM NOT RACIST BUT _____

pretty suiting that he is like the leader of anime and games on youtube

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#73 September 25, 2008, 03:03:33 pm

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T-Pain's music is beyond awful. I don't know if his singles are just an incredibly poor representation of his albums [it ][/it], but...ughh...everything he's ever been apart of just sounds like shit to me.

But I have to give him some credit. The dude has drive. I thought for sure he was going to end up being some random one-hit-wonder with "I'm Sprung," which is the only halfway decent song I've heard from him.

He and Akon are the worst. They sound almost exactly alike.

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#74 September 26, 2008, 11:40:48 pm

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Quote from: Pidgeotto221 on September 25, 2008, 01:31:54 pm

you said ICE-T what other rappers have pun names.

I dunno Snoop Doggy Dogg isn't really a pun but it's still a name that's sort of a joke and anybody will know the play on words right away

I was like 5 when rap came out ok

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#75 September 27, 2008, 03:31:35 am

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Quote from: Tophue on September 25, 2008, 01:59:32 pm

heh Big als got a thing or two to say about todays music....

oh you forgot retards attempting poetry........

hope yall got enlightened im out

I love how he thought his "they are emo because when i am listening to them it makes me want to kill myself." was really really funny.

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#76 September 27, 2008, 03:36:01 am

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Man, I am still watching it and he is such a terrible human.

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