2025 unironically feels like the "RIP music goodbye" meme. Nobody cares about music at all, not even top40 slop or Tiktok sounds. Even just 10 years ago there was a lot of hype and energy around indie, p4kcore and stuff. Nobody cares about any of that anymore. Live music is obviously dead and buried. The biggest recent news in music is about politics, not art. Maybe I am just getting old and no longer in the 16-21 age group when people really care about music but it seems young people don't care for music much at all.
2025 unironically feels like the "RIP music goodbye" meme. Nobody cares about music at all...
So tell me then what is "in"
What's the hip new thing everybody is into?
Kanye is the most exciting thing in modern music and he's been around for over 20 years
*removes airpods playing youtu.be/K6umUTRzZ8o*
Sorry what was that?
Unironically probably politics. Almost nobody cared about anything political pre-2016. Now lil zoomers are watching Jubilee slop about transes and shit instead of obsessing over indie rock or dubstep like my generation was
I think music no longer feels special because anybody can record a song in their bedroom and publish it on the internet. 30 years ago you needed expensive studio time, a company to sell your physical CDs/cassettes/vinyl in stores and another company to record your music video. It was gate-keeping all along.
That's been possible for 20 years but IMO things only really got bleak post 2020. There was a lot of energy in the mid 2010s or at least felt like it.
Yeah, poptimists killed music like we all said they would
Culture is dead, music is like the language of a society and it's unironically over.
this is all because of poptmism, the world needed rock music and what did they do, kill it
They were trying to recreate the excitement of gated music in the 2010s, but it was mostly the last legs of a dying industry. Before then music was a physical product that you bought from a store and took home. Now you can listen to anybody's music instantly on your phone without paying $20 for an album. Where is the excitement in that?
I'm sure there was more vitality in music in the 90s and earlier but when I was younger and really paying attention in the 2010s, there was plenty of hype before releases by indie bands like AnCo and others IRL, on places like this and blogs/publications. These days it seems like only KPop and Swifties are excited about music
rock is literally just the stride of the white man succeeding
cant have good music if the shoulders of society have to strange jews in one hand and blacks in the other while kicking chinas teeth in
rap hit the wall after soundcloud rap and covid, the top rappers are all in their late 30s and early 40s, i can imagine a world where pol is still sperging about kanye even though he is almost 50
rock, basically dead
metal, survives as an underground cult, we might be seeing the rise of metal again thanks to bands like sleep token, but sleep token are complete ass, metal for people who don like metal, imagine dragons tier garbage
country, nothing but dude bro pop country that no one actually like except the most low iq southerner
r&b, basically dead, damn niggas, you know there are other genres besides rap, we need some singing niggas
pop, only teen girls and gays care about it, has basically hit the wall rehashing the sounds of the 80s and having white girls act like sluts, as if thats original and ground breaking
folk, is this dead or in just hibernation, who knows
jazz, dead
Electronic music, boring corporate shit that needs to return to its roots, people who go to festivals only care about drugs and bright lights
music is both stagnate, dead, and unexciting
These days it seems like only KPop and Swifties are excited about music
Yes. I now have instant access to all the recorded music in the world in the palm of my hand for a small monthly subscription. Only the blandest, mass-appeal, mom-core, wallpaper music will set itself apart from other music. It's no wonder kids don't care about music in the same way they did 20 years ago.
he doesnt know about punk
ngmi
punk was considered dead even when rock music was still alive, let it the fuck go you idiot
Thanks for this, big hoss. Saved me night, you did.
For years at this point, most of the good and interesting music coming out is being made by women or some other 'other'. None of it is even on Anon Babbles radar anymore. Still feels odd to see mu so out of touch with the music world.
Like, folk has been in a pretty great place for a while now, but because the majority of the best folk atm is made by females, no one even talks about any of it here. Not even the artists and releases with a ton of traction previously.
2016 seriously fucked Anon Babble, because most artists are just liberals. I don't make the rules man, it's just the fact of the matter. We gatekeep by social politics instead of music quality now. Most of the actual music heads have been gone for a while. Gone somewhere where people talk about new music.
Move to the K-pop scene, they are crazy for music over there. The groups pump releases at the same pace content creators in YouTube do, it's insane. All soul-less corpo designed crap, but still, the fans passion for the slop is legit.
kpop is garbage, they dont like the music, they just fap to their plastic gook idols, fuck off
Nome of that shit is exciting or worth talking about. The music being mainly women is just virtue signaling garbage and a waste of time
maybe if y'all got your heads out of your asses you'd realise there is pop music made by women not necessarily in the top 40 that is worth talking about
Music is done for.
What in particular? I mean yeah I've heard some pretty cool stuff from women artists but it's still sadly lacking compared to older stuff
Don't be retarded. The point is that huge sections of artists are blocked off from even being heard because none of you softboys can handle anything but white dudes or naked chicks. Your sentiment is exactly what keeps anyone from talking about newer albums by women, because listening to women has to be a fucking political statement now. Doesn't matter how apolitical the music itself is. You don't even hear the shit to be able to judge it in the first place. Too threatened by any perspective that doesn't put you front and center.
It's a lot easier to shit on chicks altogether when we only allow the most vapid slutcore nonsense in our vicinity. It's not just about women either. We've cut out most artists before they even drop any music. It's dumb as shit. Motherfuckers acting like you have to be some leftist feminist cuck to listen to whatever brown or female artists at all. Can't be surprised that it feels like music is dead when we've cut off 80% of artists at the outset. Fuck we don't even talk about most of the top shit on rym anymore except the stuff that fits in neatly with older standards.
stop hijacking my thread with this bait
Women are the future.
no one cares about your lesbian feminist garbage folk music
The newest PJ Harvey is a really singular piece of work honestly. Heavily discussed outside of mu, don't think I've ever even seen it posted here. Even when it pissed off a lot of liberals because she just does her own thing.
Just last year in folk/folk adjacent there was new Jessica Pratt, Arooj Aftab, Laura Marling, Beth Gibbons, Adrianne Lenker, Rita Payes. Several instant classics. All critically acclaimed, all rated well by fans. Most completely ignored on Anon Babble. Not everyone needs to like any of this shit. I don't like all of it, but a ton of it is top tier, and none of it even sees the light of day on the chan anymore. It was all fun and games when it was a bunch of memeshit but the entire board is so out of touch with the larger music world now.
bait
lesbian feminist garbage
Exactly my point
What is screaming lesbian feminist about the last Jessica Pratt, Laura Marling, PJ Harvey, or Beth GIbbons records? Just their vag and your insecurity?
NHH
nu mu would prob say this about kate bush if she came out today kek
I've given up on modern music. Now I just listen to the prize music from the price is right
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older stuff is better than new stuff
pop music is just women acting like sluts and rehashing old sounds
man just look around
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btw let women act like sluts. its part of the performance and again if you get your heads out of your asses you'll realise there's a lot of thought and effort put behind it. also there's just so much you can do with music atp. since the invention of synths there's not been any other groundbreaking invention that would change music as we know it so obviously things are gonna repeat. this is happening to technology in general and the film industry too because no one wants to experiment anymore. take chappell roan for example, her label didn't want to put out pink pony club like that song is some crazy experimental shit or something
Amazing bait, honestly
But the point of the thread isn't whether modern music is good or not, it's that nobody cares at all either way. Music has no cultural impact
I think you mean it has no cultural impact for your demographic so it's invisible or invalid to you
nobody has listened to the Top 40 or whatever it is lists for the same reason people don't go the movies, all the really popular stuff isn't for the average person anymore and the stuff people really love you need word of mouth to hear about
Just look up by yourself the music that you like and stop caring about the zeitgeist-cultursl relevance or whatever
White people used to be so cool
Politics is downstream from economics, which is downstream from psychology/sociology, which is downstream from metaphysical belief systems. There is metaphysical belief system mismatch and sociological issues such as rat dystopia panda-monieum rn.
i strongly agree
the thing is music is subjective. the impact is what you make of it especially now there's so much of it you can pick and choose on your own of what you listen to and how you engage with it. I don't see how would people not care since for a lot of people music is an escape and/or a hobby, the fandom is a community and concerts are a social event.
I do agree with op that people are increasingly political about it. people are repeatedly failing to distinguish the artist presenting the art and the person outside of the art and it's annoying
The only passions people have today are extinguished in politics.
Since dating is dying, sex has become commodified through porn, writing a love song today would sound so old-timey and playing-pretend.
And everything being explained through science, particles and statistics killed existential pondering. You look ridiculous today if you make music about philosophical musings.
Even zoomers' music is about pretending to have real feelings, it's a stylistic larp and the passions are also larped for the sake of attention grabbing. Every 'breakthrough artist' is a carefully staged scheme with fake 'new' youtube/tiktok accounts created with very few followers then boom it takes off and they can present that as evidence that someone just went viral out of complete obscurity. Also an interview by some paid journo presents him/her as a 23-year old still living with parents and going through the general hardship of lack of housing etc, just to bait sympathy and real low-income street cred.
would you elaborate? I'm genuinely interested
Politics is downstream from economics
No, not really. Politics is downstream from psychology and collective power dynamics.
Economies have worked even back when we didn't have explicit collective rule-making politics.
There is metaphysical belief system mismatch and sociological issues such as rat dystopia panda-monieum rn.
Vague blabbering