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Is music getting worse?

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I think the Bible prophesied times getting worse so its almost like it prophesied music getting worse every decade. Music is far worse now than in the 80s even though the 80s music has more bad music than 50s music. It progressively gets worse with time.
 
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except now it is even worse than in 2012.
 
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The music you like is corrupted by the dollar...
 
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Capitalism shapes our musical interest.
Access to those feelings and emotions I first felt listening to music that interested me is the foundation of the industry..
With so many rules and regulations with the pretense of ensuring a modicum of order has left music inaccessible to many many people..
Corporate interests to sell has left the interior of a building with pre prescribed sound and we as consumers accept the sound as music and our interactions within that environment as normal
Music is about feelings good and bad yet I don't walk into a fuel station and hear sorrow only something that subconsciously conditions me to purchase processed product without consciously understanding the loss of what music is or has been or will be
 
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Imagine all the people having a Coca-Cola singing in harmony...
Can't buy that anymore...
 
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100 %ly!!!!
 
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I find the claim that music is getting worse rather tiresome as there's still plenty of good music being produced today, even if it may take a bit of effort to find. Those who say that there's no good music today just haven't bothered to look and are very short-sightedly restricting the scope of "music" just to what's currently popular.
 
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Well secular music has gotten worse but there is still some good stuff including some that play on the CHR stations due to TikTok. A lot of the good songs are either from more underrated artists on TikTok, underrated artists in general or certain songs from Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift. The only reason CHR got slightly better in the early 2020s is due to TikTok because if it wasn't for that it would have gotten slightly worse instead, especially since Rhythmic CHR stations have gotten worse in this decade compared to when it was a more broad-based format (though some songs back then were just as bad). Now CHR plays older music too which might not be good for that format so the format got bad even if the music isn't as bad since it isn't as heavy on the newer stuff than in 2015-2019.
 
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Yeah, there was good music in the 80s but yes there was bad music (like Prince) then too. 70s music was pretty bad at times since that era was not a good era. 50's is more innocent than 70s & 80s hits as well as 40s hits even though most people nowadays aren't as in to those songs. Not all music from 2012 (was bad) and it was at least better than we have nowadays in 2025. 2025's music is pretty bad if you only count the inappropriate mainstream hip hop (Rhythmic CHR or Urban Contemporary)/mainstream pop (CHR/Top 40) hits.
 
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Music as with other industries is geared towards young people. Then when people are in their 30s and probably with kids, the family friendly music from their generation is playing in restaurants and shopping malls. Then when people are in their 40s, society no longer cares about catching your interest, so it seems like nothing is interesting anymore, because it is no longer about you.
 
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There are still people making great music. I have found quite a few really good contemporary musicians. You may not like my musical taste, but it is great music, especially in the Celtic music world.




Listen to a few NPR Tiny Desk Concerts





 
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