Why 60s through 90s music was so much better than today’s. Even many of today’s generation thinks so. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
musical musings and solutions for a saturday morning
preface and dedication:
this is not my fault. i had things to do this morning. but i have a dear friend and longtime inadvertent but oddly inescapable muse who in response to the core idea we’ll get to here suggested the title and i have been writing since.
this is her fault.
so there.
i want to show you some video from my youth
take a quick watch
it’s just three videos
and now, at the risk of sounding like an engagement farmer, let me pose a question:
what do you notice about these videos?
in particular, what do you notice that makes them seem dramatically different from the music and the videos of today?
give this some real thought.
there will be a test.
i ask this in service of answering a question:
why does music today suck so much?
i say this not as the archetypical grumpy oldster clinging to his chords and crooners and grousing about “the kids today and their damnable new fangled noise.” i say this as an objectivist. music today objectively sucks. there are a few bright spots here and there, but basically, it’s just awful, derivative twaddle with no soul and less swagger.
A dank meme said it could have all been prevented if MTV just kept playing music.
They mean the get out the vote shows and “reality” teevee?
The early MTV is some of the best ever, you knew it would be ruined.