All emotion as been drained out, all meaning, long gone. Their new album that came out a few weeks ago sounds awful. Sadly Linkin Park's producer or manager or whatever decided it would be a good idea if they took a more pop approach. They had songs like "Hand Held High" and "Shadow of the Day" that were all very emotional and very good. A band that had a lot of emotion and feeling in their music WAS Linkin Park. Finding a good song now a days is like finding a diamond in the ruff. Now a days they give contract to anyone who can talk and us autotune, I'm not giving any names.Ke$ha. If you want frustration, anger, smashing things up and swearing without sounding theatrically camp, go to the lower-class areas. So, that's why those things are fairly bland and boring nowadays: because bland and boring are attributes of being middle-class. to be middle-class friendly) and in comedy, for the same reason. Skipping a long ramble cos i'm tired and slightly generalizing, i prefer the middle-classes to produce middle-class music and the lower-classes to produce lower-class music (the former would be more crafted and the latter more expressive).īut anyway, the same hijacking of popular culture can be seen in football which was originally a working-class affair and the current popularity entirely and purposely manufactured to appeal to a 'broader spectrum' (ie. like, he's done nothing much worthwhile since he's been out of the closet and his last decent effort of a general release, don't let the sun go down on me, was really george michael's song (his vocals stole it and nobody remembers the original) and he was in closet at the time. but he's also a good example of how it all goes awry in the pressence of wealth, comfort and acceptance. okay, okay, there are exceptions but, those exceptions are typified by their having a genuine angst (as opposed to the manufactured pop-teen-angst) and a good example is elton john, of course. What happened to music? the middle-classes hijacked it for commercial exploitation. In the words of U2 (God Part II, 1988): You glorify the past, the future dries up That may or may not be true, but new stuff tends to aggravate those who have been listening for a while to the forms that came before it. Who knows, perhaps if you were this age back in 1970, you may have dismissed that same Elton John song for the reasons we dismiss a lot of the music that comes out today. It's primarily about how many times you've heard it, and the gradual shifts in our culture. Good songs will remain good songs, no mater how old they get, most of the time. Seriously, I go into FYE and hear that music being played, and I really have to wonder how it could be deemed as enjoyable in anyone's mind. Now, especially in hip hop, it seems it's mostly about having a beat, and that's about it. Executives who guide these bands and pay their contracts started demanding different and newer styles. The reason music doesn't sound like that anymore is because it began to lose its profitability.
You may have to find them a little off the beaten track. Oh, good music is still being written and performed you just can't always rely upon the most commercially acclaimed bands to do that for you.