Modern Music Is Rubbish (not)
Oh no it’s not.
As Matt Stevens has already pointed out, this argument could
have been used at almost any point in pop’s history. Yes, there is a load of
tat in the charts, but there always has been.
Some of us, as regular readers will know, make music that
has been put together with effort and love for the craft. Listen to the
incredible diversity of music available to you and tell me it’s too formulaic.
Even in my little music appreciation corner I’ve heard fabulous, electric
violin playing in the modern classical tradition, alternative pop with brains
and feeling, jazz with so much life it could resuscitate a corpse and the
undefinable music of Centrozoon who surprise and delight with every release.
And that’s just what I’ve heard in the last ten days.
If you think modern music is rubbish you might want to check
and see if you’re using expressions like “in my day”. Because, guess what? Your
day is not over.
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