The 1960's saw the expansion of rock & roll to multiple sub-genres which would make up the new genre simply entitled 'rock'
The 1970's saw the disco boom and the early days of 'heavy metal'
The 1980's saw the music industry explode into literally hundreds of sub-genres
The 1990's saw the grunge movement and brit-pop
The 2000's saw... a bit of Indie and 200 metric tons of horse shit
As you can see by the lovely little list I have created for your viewing pleasure (grief), I am aware of a huge decline in the quality of music being produced in the past decade. Now this is just my opinion, but I'm sure there are plenty of others out there who support my point. Back in the 60s and 70s, creating music was an incredibly gruelling process, as everything was recorded to tape, making it incredibly difficult to edit the recordings in post-production.
Nowadays, however, a song could be created in one take, because the singer doesn't have to be able to sing, the keyboardist doesn't have to be able to play the keyboard, and the bassist has been told to go fuck himself, as he is no longer required in the aptly named 'drum & bass' sub-genre. The thing which angers me most is auto-tune; a piece of software which can either be used to modulate the singer's pitch if they hit a flat/sharp note, or can be used to distort the singer's voice to inhuman levels which shouldn't have to be heard by the regular human's auditory nerve.
On the lighter side, we have the hope that soon someone will step out from the crowd and create a new genre worthy of our listening. Here's to this hopeful thought
Alex Taylor
(Official Fail)
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