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[djealnla]

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[thalbergmad]

I tend to listen to popular music about 30-40 years after it was popular.

Perhaps I am getting old, but has not popular music in the last 10 years hit an all time low??

Thal

[gerryjay]

Perhaps I am getting old, but has not popular music in the last 10 years hit an all time low??

Thal,
back in 2002 or 2003, I listen to many people say something like that: there was nothing in the nineties that worth listening to in popular music. The 60s were the time! The 70s were the time! And so on.

Back then, I made several times the 90s apology, but now...dude, I got completely tired of looking for something interesting years ago. The bands/composers/singers that survived the turn of the century went to boring paths (one example is Coldplay. I really like the first album, but what about the last one?!?). And the childs of the century... well, whatever, nevermind[/i].

Or am I missing something?

[djealnla]

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[thalbergmad]

In terms of any noticeable skill perhaps??

Thal

[djealnla]

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[vandermozart3]

I don't listen to much contemporary music, but I do love it (not quite as much as classical perhaps )

I find it enthralling how a pop artist can use such basic harmony, progression, rhythms, melodies, etc., to create something so catchy and fun to listen to.

For example (don't kill me here) Justin Bieber's Baby.
The chorus uses about 4 notes and a typical progression and a pretty ordinary rhythm, but it's just SO good! (I said don't kill me!) I mean, wow, how does he make something like that, something that you can't stop singing after hearing it once, when if I tried to do it I'd miserably fail?

Another example, Tic Toc by Kesha.
It is SO trashy and pathetic but I can't help loving it!

I'm ready to be shot from all directions now.... 

[ted]

I hardly ever listen to any popular music. The notable exceptions seem to be numbers which have a strong, clear melody which takes my fancy. It's melody which does it for me. Once that happens I will go on listening to it every once in a while from then on. This is the case for many of the Seekers' tunes, but not, for some reason, those of Presley, the Beatles and other famous groups.

Funnily enough, melody doesn't specially interest me in my own playing, my own music, although I have written and played hundreds of melodies in my piano music. Why I like a particular famous melody and cannot stand another, equally famous tune, is one of life's little mysteries.

[floydcramerfan]

I guess people like different things about different types of music.  I respect people who can listen to classical as well as popular music.  As for me, bluegrass is my favorite music, but I can usually find something to like about most all types of music, with the exception of most of the top 40 stuff they put out today.  Most of that makes me stabby, but I occasionally hear a song I like.