Old fogey opinions on modern popular music amnesty

[Cloo]

Go on, let out your inner fogey!

In my case, it's why are there are these aggressive-looking young men with face tattoos and neck tattoos looking like they should be rapping about fuck the police and smoking crack but actually singing emo-lite-pop rap ditties in the vein of 'whooo-oooah gurl you look so fine\ Let's meet up on Saturday night'?

Surely all these sensitive bequiffed earnest young male singer-songwriters with affected singing styles must have cold ankles from not wearing socks with those slightly short trousers?

What sort of name is 'Fetty Wap', m'lud?

 

[Ted Striker]

There's only about 10 songs released in the last 15 years or so (post Oasis period) that would make an all-time top 250 or 500 pop records.

 

[danski]

What sort of name is 'Fetty Wap', m'lud?

It’s a spoonerism

 

[petee]

as a fogey, i like to listen to such as DNA, Ze'ev, Pauline Oliveros, the Fall, that sort of thing, while sipping tea by the fire in my cardigan. today's music is uniform and insipid, and the youth are uniform and insipid for liking it.

 

[Pickman's model]

i'm sure there's a great ton of excellent new music out there. but i never seem to hear any of it.

 

[Pickman's model]

as a fogey, i like to listen to such as DNA, Ze'ev, Pauline Oliveros, the Fall, that sort of thing, while sipping tea by the fire in my cardigan. today's music is uniform and insipid, and the youth are uniform insipid for liking it.

yeh the notion of youth being a time to rebel seems conspicuously absent these days.

unless they're rebelling against rebellious parents

ripped jeans? pshaw, in my day we bought them whole and the holes appeared through wear, rather than bought impaired for affectation

 

[ska invita]

Advice to all modern pop singers
SING PROPERLY


I hate all this breathy put on crap
Id post an example but it's all of them
(Plus I don't know what any of them are called)

 

[ska invita]

In my case, it's why are there are these aggressive-looking young men with face tattoos and neck tattoos looking like they should be rapping about fuck the police and smoking crack but actually singing emo-lite-pop rap ditties in the vein of 'whooo-oooah gurl you look so fine\ Let's meet up on Saturday night'?

Surely all these sensitive bequiffed earnest young male singer-songwriters with affected singing styles must have cold ankles from not wearing socks with those slightly short trousers?

What sort of name is 'Fetty Wap', m'lud?

That's the music industry cashing in on and repackaging trap gangstas, age old

 

[8ball]

Advice to all modern pop singers
SING PROPERLY


I hate all this breathy put on crap
Id post an example but it's all of them

At least it means the “Whitney wailing” phase is over.

 

[ska invita]

Oh and stop courting teenyboppers and then switching to soft porn material. You know who you are

 

[petee]

ripped jeans? pshaw, in my day we bought them whole and the holes appeared through wear, rather than bought impaired for affectation

in fact, my jeans have a hole in them, right at the crotch. it developed naturally, and i will not conform to society's repressive standards by sewing it up.

 

[Pickman's model]

At least it means the “Whitney wailing” phase is over.

1:32-40

 

[ska invita]

At least it means the “Whitney wailing” phase is over.

Whitney sang like a bell, no vibrato, set it straight, not prone to acrobatics. People could learn a lot from Whitney.

Though I take your point

 

[ska invita]

I've got a feeling a thread with RELEASE YOUR INNER FOGGIE instructions could run and run.

 

[Pickman's model]

I've got a feeling a thread with RELEASE YOUR INNER FOGGIE instructions could run and run.

so many of our northern members look irl like the denizens of last of the summer wine, i hear

* gets flat cap and coat *

 

[liquidindian]

I don't like a lot of modern pop music and that's good. I'm old enough that pop music should be incomprehensible and upsetting and alienating to me.

 

[ska invita]

I think it's sad there's no adult pop anymore. I guess the 80s was the golden age for that.
I'm sure there's adults making adult melodic catchy songs, but they're not going to be played alongside Teenybopper pop.
Pop charts/pop radio is pure business products now... Maybe the 1950s is the closest equivalent

 

[Cloo]

At least it means the “Whitney wailing” phase is over.

What opera fans call 'Can Belto'

 

[Cloo]

I don't like a lot of modern pop music and that's good. I'm old enough that pop music should be incomprehensible and upsetting and alienating to me.

TBH, yes, I have come to that conclusion! Make your peace with it...

 

[killer b]

I think it's sad there's no adult pop anymore. I guess the 80s was the golden age for that.
I'm sure there's adults making adult melodic catchy songs, but they're not going to be played alongside Teenybopper pop.
Pop charts/pop radio is pure business products now... Maybe the 1950s is the closest equivalent

the whole of rock music is adult pop isn't it really? the kids aren't listening to anything with guitars in it

 

[8ball]

the whole of rock music is adult pop isn't it really? the kids aren't listening to anything with guitars in it

Sorry lads, guitar bands are out.

 

[Mattym]

What sort of name is 'Fetty Wap', m'lud?

I like to wind the kids up at school by inserting this image into a powerpoint and asking them which pop star it is...

 

[Steel Icarus]

Anything post-2000 is modern for me so I'm quite with it with my Strokes, Killers and Bloc Party records

 

[Numbers]

Whitney sang like a bell, no vibrato, set it straight, not prone to acrobatics. People could learn a lot from Whitney.

Though I take your point

I never got why Whitney is lauded as much as she is, apart from a few absolute great tracks I find her voice irritating.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I never got why Whitney is lauded as much as she is, apart from a few absolute great tracks I find her voice irritating.

I never believed she believed a word she sang.

 

[Hollis]

I've unfashionably probably been saved from myself by Spotify.

Without Spotify I'd probably be in an endless spiral of seeking out outtakes and reissues of Led Zeppelin, Bowie and various other rock gods/dinosaurs. Thankfully the last 7-8 years I've discovered more new stuff than ever.. there's loads of good stuff out there.. Just ignore the shite they play in gyms!

 

[Cloo]

Over the last 18 months, given I have YouTube music, I have made a point of listening to 'Top 50 albums' of last few years - there is definitely some good off-kilter pop out there, but there are some types of album I know will never do anything for me.

 

[killer b]

I think it's sad there's no adult pop anymore. I guess the 80s was the golden age for that.
I'm sure there's adults making adult melodic catchy songs, but they're not going to be played alongside Teenybopper pop.

also: Taylor Swift's recent stuff, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Ray. etc. Adele!

 

[ska invita]

I never believed she believed a word she sang.

thats true I think - she was basically a voice for hire in the pop machine
i can easily live without all her music tbh - Love WIll Save The Day is the only track I really have a soft spot for

but her skills are just incredible
this


actually makes my eyes water and want to invade Grenada

 

[ska invita]

also: Taylor Swift's recent stuff, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Ray. etc. Adele!

yeah heres this weeks chart


Its no Prefab Sprout! (who always annoyed me tbh, but it was fun having that kind of stuff in the charts)