rocketpig said:
It's supposed to be good, too. Heard a few songs and liked them. I still need to download the entire thing and give it a listen. As for the rest of that list, UGH. Terrible. Eminem is alright (I'm not a big hip-hop fan but I respect what he does and like quite a few of his songs), Lady GaGa is comical and a great show, but th e rest of that shit is just horrible. I can't believe the crap people call music. |
I'd never call popular music crap as the charts just give you a picture of most popular music anyway (and with an excellent indie band like Arcade Fire debuting at #1 in USA/UK and #4 in my country among others it can't be that bad), but I see the pattern that what I'd call prefab music is generally the most popular today in western countries.
This doesn't mean though that people won't buy the latest Bonnie 'Prince' Billy or Joanna Newsom albums anymore. Less popluar or "alternative" (always hated that term) artists will always have their fans and there's also still mainstream artists who have talent and are successful (e.g. in the ladies department Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu and - unfortunately to a lesser extent - Janelle Monaé, whose brilliant debut album sells worse than I expected).
