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These mainstream "musicians" that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on stage setups, big show productions, dancers, whathaveyou are basically over compensating for a lack of real musicianship. Whatever happened to just playing an instrument and feeling an emotional connection to the music? What happened to plain MUSIC? Music is a hollowshell of what it used to be.
I feel like putting in so much money into production of a video or stage set just demeans their music.
I wish more people thought like that but people who listen to the popular music nowadays don't care about music as much.
They care more about the "fun" aspect of everything and not the actual music.
It's just sad how real musicians nowadays barely get recognized or any notoriety for actual musical talent.
They always highlight a pretty face and a pretty voice.
Most of the time not even that!
Rappers, EDM, Country, and pop are the main hitmakers nowadays and their music is absolute garbage. It's either whiney or it's party music.
The Thing about it is that they have like one popular song per album and dont even care about the others
One big hit single nowadays can earn these terrible artists a royalty check for the rest of their lives.
They have to write a bunch of songs to give the impression that they're insightful musicians when in reality they make one hit single per album to keep them going.
I know Elvis didn't write most of his songs, I know The Monkees didn't play their own instruments but their music actually had some feeling and substance to it despite the producers.
Nowadays it takes a team of producers to make one stupid mindless party song and spend thousands doing it.
It's sort of like sex.
Sex is terrific. But nothing compared to sex with a girl!
You never saw James Brown live, did you? Michael Jackson? Pink Floyd? It all adds to the experience Cisco.
I LOVE JAMES BROWN! I LOVE MJ. Pink Floyd is good too.
They all have one thing in common, real passion to their craft
I'm mainly talking about modern music.
These mainstream pop artists spend more time focusing on what the performance looks like instead of what it sounds like or what emotions they're trying to convey.
OK, that I understand!
Spot-on. Modern mainstream music is more about quantity, not quality...
Music is a subset of entertainment these days. You can still find music in the format you prefer.