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Yeah, pretty much, but they did other things.
This song was number 2 in the United States billboard charts and went 4 times platinum in USA, 38 worldwide with 2 diamonds and a couple of golds. So I'd say that if you've never heard it, I don't think you having heard something is a criteria for it counting as popular.
I once read a study about how someones musical taste is nearly always the kind of music they listen to when they're around 13, and then they stick to it until they're deaf. Everything before that sounds frumpy, everything that came after sounds like 12-tone music or repetetive noise.Yeah definitely not....I'm sure there's plenty of good music that I've passed over. Popular music is what the radio plays before I sync up whatever music playing device I'm using.
I once read a study about how someones musical taste is nearly always the kind of music they listen to when they're around 13, and then they stick to it until they're deaf. Everything before that sounds frumpy, everything that came after sounds like 12-tone music or repetetive noise.
I don't know if I'm special, but I can still listen to modern music and appreciate it, even if its not the genres I listen to. For example, concerning country, I checked the current country charts, and the number 2 song is Blake Shelton's Gods Country. I nearly never listen to Country, but this one is pretty awesome (even though I don't understand why they burn a perfectly good tractor).
Still not taking video watching assignments.Well that's the old trope I mentioned....time passes by and musical tastes with it...
So counterpoint....
You aren't wrong. Modern music sucks, and it's getting worse
Still not taking video watching assignments.
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^When Loudness' original lead singer left the band, the band's international distributor forced the group to accept an American lead singer, Mike Vescera, in the belief that Vescera's presence would make them more marketable to non-Japanese audiences.
While Vescera was a good singer and the "Soldier of Fortune" album is musically in keeping with their previous releases, he was ultimately a poor fit for the band and cost them a *lot* of their hometown support.
His tenure in the band is divisive even to this day, and for all intents and purposes everything made between the time the original lead singer left and the time he returned has effectively fallen down the memory hole despite still being readily available through iTunes and other online retailers.
Here's a good country song;
Correct. Beer/whiskey and adultery are also required.Animals evolve, but a squirrel is a squirrel and a bird is a bird. Two distinct things. Putting on a cowboy hat and mentioning a horse does not make a country song.
I remember Loudness very well. I never knew the lead singer changed on the Solider of Fortune record, so thanks for the info. "Rock This Way" is still one of my favorite songs of all time. That riff remains epic to this day.
Loudness (band) - Wikipedia
Although guitarist Akira Takasaki tried singing lead when the band first formed, by the time of their 1981 debut album Minoru Niihara had taken over as permanent lead vocalist.
Niihara left in 1988, and Vescera was tapped to sing lead on "Soldier of Fortune" and "On The Prowl". Vescera left soon afterwords, and from 1992 to 2000 the band was fronted by former EZO frontman Masaki Yamada (who is now with FiRESiGN). In 2000 Niihara came back and has been on vocals ever since.
"Soldier of Fortune" was the only real studio album Vescera worked on, as "On The Prowl" was largely comprised of older Loudness songs (mostly B-sides and material from LPs) reworked into English so that Vescera could sing them; unlike Niihara, Vescera wasn't bilingual.
I just pointed out that it wasn't country. Most of the posters agree. You think we're all angry senior citizens? Your post smacks of Ageism, if that's a thing. (Yeah I just checked; it's a thing.)You sound like an old angry person who thinks whatever music you like is the only music.
That's a myth. It's a myth that no thing can be better or worse than another thing.The funny thing is, this happens with every generation; whatever music you grew up with is the real music, and the new stuff is no good. I forget the movie, but it was a period film where the kids are listening to classic Motown on the radio and the adult says, "Take that mess off, listen to some real music."
I'm not mad at anything.You can't be mad at this:
It's not country.I don't listen to music like this, but I'm not going to get all righteously indignant over someone making music that people love. And yes, it's country music, it's just country music you don't like.
Back in the day I knew a guy who called them "Roudness". Horrible. Disgusting. It was a guy I knew, not me.(ur example: Loudness, with a caveat about the infamous Mike Vescera era^)
Correct. Beer/whiskey and adultery are also required.
My comment about angry old person applies to anyone over the age of 20 because that's about the time people start complaining about new music and how the music they grew up with was far superior (i.e., they often highlight the music from when they were 10-16). When I hear complaints like that, I believe those people don't have a real appreciation for music and its diversity.I just pointed out that it wasn't country. Most of the posters agree. You think we're all angry senior citizens? Your post smacks of Ageism, if that's a thing. (Yeah I just checked; it's a thing.)
The point is that many people tend to attack new music that is unlike the music they grew up with. They attack the sound, lyrics, creativity, etc. The simple fact is there is new music made all the time, and there is a lot of good music made every year. The people focusing on, say just pop music, and then complaining aren't really listening to music or a large enough body of music.That's a myth. It's a myth that no thing can be better or worse than another thing.
I'll take you at your word, but my other metric for these threads say otherwise.I'm not mad at anything.
It's country, it's new, it's not accepted, but it's country. More specifically country-trap.It's not country.
https://www.countrymusicnews.de/hot-country-songs-chartsMy comment about angry old person applies to anyone over the age of 20 because that's about the time people start complaining about new music and how the music they grew up with was far superior (i.e., they often highlight the music from when they were 10-16). When I hear complaints like that, I believe those people don't have a real appreciation for music and its diversity.
The point is that many people tend to attack new music that is unlike the music they grew up with. They attack the sound, lyrics, creativity, etc. The simple fact is there is new music made all the time, and there is a lot of good music made every year. The people focusing on, say just pop music, and then complaining aren't really listening to music or a large enough body of music.
I'll take you at your word, but my other metric for these threads say otherwise.
It's country, it's new, it's not accepted, but it's country. More specifically country-trap.
Well I didn't say anything about all that, I just said one song is not a country song, so check your prejudice and don't jump to conclusions, okay?My comment about angry old person applies to anyone over the age of 20 because that's about the time people start complaining about new music and how the music they grew up with was far superior (i.e., they often highlight the music from when they were 10-16). When I hear complaints like that, I believe those people don't have a real appreciation for music and its diversity.
The point is that many people tend to attack new music that is unlike the music they grew up with. They attack the sound, lyrics, creativity, etc. The simple fact is there is new music made all the time, and there is a lot of good music made every year. The people focusing on, say just pop music, and then complaining aren't really listening to music or a large enough body of music.
Back in the day I knew a guy who called them "Roudness". Horrible. Disgusting. It was a guy I knew, not me.
1 and 2 sound very country. 3 sounds like a normal hip hop song from the early 2000s.
You might want to take a class on music theory. The quality and very substance of music are actually devolving. The number of elements of music found in popular compositions is dwindling with each generation. And with ever-increasing frequency, recordings are dynamically compressed so that softer sounds are amplified, louder sounds are attenuated, and then the entire waveform is normalized to the slightest margin below what would introduce unplanned distortion. This yields the maximum amount of decibel assault upon our eardrums and represses the actual electro-chemical function of the pre-frontal cortex--the part of our brains that governs empathy, moral fidelity, decision-making, ability to worship--you might actually even think of it as the Most Holy Place of the temple of the Holy Spirit. So when you're all done chuckling, you might want to utter a little prayer for our children and grandchildren.Music isn't supposed to "sound like" or be something specific, it evolves over time. There are influences from other genres, progression into new sounds, implementation of new ideas, etc., the notion of immutability of a genre is the exact opposite of art. Whenever I see people talk about how music should be, I just think, "Get off my lawn!" And then I start chuckling at the idea that when Mozart and Beethoven dominated the music world, there were probably probably lamented the loss of real music like that of Bach and Vivaldi.
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