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In reply to the discussion: Is the music of today worse than it was 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago? Or am I just old? [View all]ProfessorGAC
(64,865 posts)I hear stuff i like and stuff that does nothing for me, because the song doesn't go anywhere. It's just kind of treading water.
My only real compliant about the most recent stuff (aside from rap which is really tone poetry, like 70's Gil Scott-Heron) is that there is a lack of stylish singers.
Plenty of people with good enough voices, but i don't hear people lagging the line or pushing the lyric, gritting it up for emphasis, doing vocal tricks, and so on.
Here and there, but it seems to be willfully de-emphasized and even the good, pitch solid singers are using autotune so there are zero rough edges.
Also, if you have autotune cranked up enough, one cannot intentional catch the note low and lag it into pitch. So, everyone has to hit the note dead on. Which goes back to stylish.