12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music

[clifford_-]

Lennon was a genius who wrote game changing songs.

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[Pedro Sánchez]

McCartney is a plonker who wrote songs about birds.

and has a face that wakes sleeping babies.

[Genevieve]

The reason people are favoring people like skrillex and the beatles etc. is because the music appeals to more people, its about taste, not everyone has the same taste as you pop music is called popmusic because suprise suprise its popular.

You're saying the exact same thing I said. When did I say or imply that everyone should listen to the Velvet Underground or that they should have my taste, did you not read me saying the complete opposite? I don't give a shit what music is popular. This is about why the Beatles are popular and it's because they're accessible (thanks for repeating what I said), it's got nothing to do with innovation because people standing in a club don't listen to a tune and think to themselves 'oh wow, this is innovative', they think 'I can shake my ass to it and I can hum along to the melody'.

To think that the Beatles are the one band that became huge for being innovative while the others aren't just reeks of fanboyism.

Not the one. The First.

Right, people don't care about innovation and stuff like that in music, but human nature magically changes when the Beatles' music is put on.

[JTMMusicuk]

These days there is nothing drastically different happening in music, just the same sounds used in different ways. Im not saying people listen to a track and think 'this person has used a sample of a tree in a song this is amazing as it hasnt been done before' im saying what the beatles did was a completely different sound to what everyone else was doing altogether and this sound is what created the music industry as we know it.
and by the way, i dont really like the beatles music but i appreciate the talent

[grimesceneinvestigation]

the last one was really unnecessary.
whenever music doesn't interest me I just stay away from it, I don't check it.
while I try to stay away from what I don't care about I got an overload of Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, anyone,.. that people like to complain about.
it's ridiculous to know about the music everyone hates, just because everyone hates it.

start shutting the fuck up about what you don't like and start to share what's worth everyone's attention again.

I still mix jungle even if it seems no one cares, for my own love of the music.
but I won't share the crap that wasn't worth my attention in the first place.
/rant over

[mks]

It is interesting to think about pop music now compared to then. Today it seems so disposable you wonder if any of these songs are going to hold up in 10 - 20 plus years.

Is there going to be a classic pop music of the 2000's radio station or whatever?

I would seriously rather listen to Led Zep and the Beatles than most of what I hear today that is considered pop.

[SCope13]

I don't get all the comparisons to the Beatles? They're just a pop band from the sixties. They're weren't particulary inovative, they just went with what was popular at the time, which is exactly what pop artists do today. The only reason the only reason the artists the article draws comparisons to have sold more music is because it's so cheap and easy to buy nowadays.

This man has obviously not listened to Sgt Peppers or Abbey Road.

[Filthzilla]

Is there going to be a classic pop music of the 2000's radio station or whatever?

Yeah, people would tune in because the pop of the 2000's will be so different from the pop of the 2020's/30's/40's.

[particle-jim]

I don't get all the comparisons to the Beatles? They're just a pop band from the sixties. They're weren't particulary inovative, they just went with what was popular at the time, which is exactly what pop artists do today. The only reason the only reason the artists the article draws comparisons to have sold more music is because it's so cheap and easy to buy nowadays.

This man has obviously not listened to Sgt Peppers or Abbey Road.

yeah pretty much

[-[2]DAY_-]

The Beatles innovated well before those records.. never listened to the studio madness and songwriting on Revolver? and even before that, on Rubber Soul? Norwegian Wood wasn't innovative???

[particle-jim]

The Beatles innovated well before those records.. never listened to the studio madness and songwriting on Revolver? and even before that, on Rubber Soul? Norwegian Wood wasn't innovative???

you're not wrong mate, sgt peppers in particular was just the most obvious example though

[clifford_-]

im glad theres some people here with a bit of sense

[-[2]DAY_-]

i still batter Please Please Me almost daily.. can't say i know that much of other music from that era but theres something about their melodies and their sound that just stuck. might be the last music group ever to be almost universally loved

[JTMMusicuk]

i still batter Please Please Me almost daily.. can't say i know that much of other music from that era but theres something about their melodies and their sound that just stuck. might be the last music group ever to be almost universally loved

youv clearly never heard the spice girls

[arktrix45hz]

the last one was really unnecessary.
whenever music doesn't interest me I just stay away from it, I don't check it.
while I try to stay away from what I don't care about I got an overload of Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, anyone,.. that people like to complain about.
it's ridiculous to know about the music everyone hates, just because everyone hates it.

start shutting the fuck up about what you don't like and start to share what's worth everyone's attention again.

I still mix jungle even if it seems no one cares, for my own love of the music.
but I won't share the crap that wasn't worth my attention in the first place.
/rant over

This a million times over. Focus on the positives and the negatives disappear.

[Pedro Sánchez]

Focus on the positives and the negatives disappear.

Really? Has this ever happened...ever?

[magma]

I don't get all the comparisons to the Beatles? They're just a pop band from the sixties. They're weren't particulary inovative, they just went with what was popular at the time, which is exactly what pop artists do today.

1966


1999


Yeah, The Beatles weren't innovative at all. It's not like they almost invented psychedelic EDM 25 years early by manually fucking about with tape loops or anything.

[jrisreal]

These days there is nothing drastically different happening in music, just the same sounds used in different ways. Im not saying people listen to a track and think 'this person has used a sample of a tree in a song this is amazing as it hasnt been done before' im saying what the beatles did was a completely different sound to what everyone else was doing altogether and this sound is what created the music industry as we know it.
and by the way, i dont really like the beatles music but i appreciate the talent

In the Beatles' time, there weren't tons of other artists/bands being innovative. You don't see the same innovation now because of the same reason. People like that aren't as common as you are expecting/wanting them to be.

[oli90]

I don't get all the comparisons to the Beatles? They're just a pop band from the sixties. They're weren't particulary inovative, they just went with what was popular at the time, which is exactly what pop artists do today.

1966


1999


Yeah, The Beatles weren't innovative at all. It's not like they almost invented psychedelic EDM 25 years early by manually fucking about with tape loops or anything.

Composers like Schaeffer and Stockhausen had been doing that 10-20 years before that song was released. I'm not saying they made bad tunes, just that they're often given credit for a lot innovation in music technology that they had absolutely nothing to do with. I'm also not saying they were'nt influential, because they were, they took the innovations of other people, and presented them in a more accessible form. If you want to praise the band for being sonically experimental then credit should go to George Martin and Geoff Emerick, the bands producers.