Old fogey opinions on modern popular music amnesty

[manji]

Sorry lads, guitar bands are out.

They are but most kids are genre-fluid. They will listen to 80’s goth then flit to country rap onto auto-tune RnB and so on.
They learn their music from Console games and playlists of Netflix shows. Of course til-tok is another influencer

 

[blairsh]

I never believed she believed a word she sang.

Thats not right, but its okay...

 

[ska invita]

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.

TBF i dont really know what Im talking about as I dont listen to it - Im going on very vague impressions
can you remember the name of any of this offkilter pop that stood out

 

[killer b]

Sorry lads, guitar bands are out.

it's true - you get the occasional weird kid who's into it, like some weird kids of our generation were into jazz or elvis or whatever, but even new guitar bands are mostly playing to audiences of men in their 40s

 

[Cloo]

ska invita Obvious ones like Billie Eilish, Jessie Ware, Christine & the Queens (who I liked anyway)

The Japan House I liked a lot as well, I think there were some other more obscure ones but can't remember off the top of my head.

 

[Sue]

(((Guitar bands)))

 

[danny la rouge]

some weird kids of our generation were into jazz or elvis or whatever

I don’t think I’m your generation. But I was into jazz and Elvis. And I’m not…

Oh.

 

[Yossarian]

Every time I put on pop radio it just sounds like a lot of (mostly quite good) early '80s songs that I've never heard before.

 

[manji]

one thing that really annoys me is how you find a decent online music blog that has some goods tips for new music, some atmospheric black metal or underground hip-hop for example. Next thing you know is they are reviewing the Adele album and giving it 9/10.

 

[onenameshelley]

I find the Adele and Ed sheeran thing bewildering.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

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

I find adult (sorta) pop I like: Lou Hayter, Biig Piig, Jessie Ware... I'd even class Roisin Murphy as adult pop.

I can't comment on a lot of the music kids listen to because I mostly avoid it.

Have to admit, I'm chuffed to say I've heard barely a note of Adele's new material.

 

[Pickman's model]

I find the Adele and Ed sheeran thing bewildering.

I know the names but no more.

 

[manji]

I find the Adele and Ed sheeran thing bewildering.

their agents are crafty. Both of them were an embarrassment a few years back so they get some vaguely decent rapper or techno producer to feature on their albums and suddenly the have increased their market/credibility.

 

[marty21]

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.

That's the spirit.

 

[marty21]

I do listen to some modern pop combos tbf

 

[Pickman's model]

I do listen to some modern pop combos tbf

godley and creme and the like no doubt

 

[Yossarian]

Somebody on here said the teens they knew were obsessed with early '90s shoegaze bands, the more obscure the better, and I couldn't even tell if it was a wind-up or not.

 

[Sue]

I do listen to some modern pop combos tbf

What do you class as modern, Boomer?

 

[Pickman's model]

What do you class as modern, Boomer?

post-1789

 

[Pickman's model]

Somebody on here said the teens they knew were obsessed with early '90s shoegaze bands, the more obscure the better, and I couldn't even tell if it was a wind-up or not.

it is actually A Thing Shoegaze - Wikipedia

 

[killer b]

Somebody on here said the teens they knew were obsessed with early '90s shoegaze bands, the more obscure the better, and I couldn't even tell if it was a wind-up or not.

mine and weepiper's teens I think. They're the weird kids.

 

[marty21]

What do you class as modern, Boomer?

Wait for my contribution to Urban's 12 inch of the year, youngster

 

[Yossarian]

it is actually A Thing Shoegaze - Wikipedia

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Yeah, I have plenty of shoegaze albums and even a Rollercoaster tour poster gathering dust somewhere, didn't expect a shoegaze revival!

 

[Pickman's model]

Yeah, I have plenty of shoegaze albums and even a Rollercoaster tour poster gathering dust somewhere, didn't expect a shoegaze revival!

never heard of shoegaze till you posted about it

 

[killer b]

Yeah, I have plenty of shoegaze albums and even a Rollercoaster tour poster gathering dust somewhere, didn't expect a shoegaze revival!

it's been gradually gathering pace for the last... decade maybe? I think the MBV reunion probably kicked it off properly. Now every new band is a shoegaze band.

 

[onenameshelley]

mine and weepiper's teens I think. They're the weird kids.

I think its cracking, I love teen tribes, the reimaginings of things I knew or did ❤❤

 

[marty21]

never heard of shoegaze till you posted about it

I do like a bit of shoegaze tbf

 

[pbsmooth]

I now tut tut at grime rappers talking about stabbing and shooting each other, not to mention dealing drugs. What hope have the kids got!

(I happily listened to this music 15 years ago)

 

[DaveCinzano]

Miki Berenyi did a great drunken tweet last night threatening to spill the beans on various shoegaze and britpop stars

 

[Numbers]

post-1789

Surely you mean 1798?