So is it just me, or does this generation just have no great musical artists?

Three days grace are one of my personal favourites along with Dragonforce , Disturbed, Children of Bodom and Evanescence i have alot more favourites but i can't be bothered to list them
 
I'm 20. I don't care how hard something is to play, if it sounRAB good I like it. I'm a sucker for good melodies and the electric guitar. I do like what some would call "over produced" music but like I said I listen to music for how it sounRAB not how hard it is to play. I really do hate a lot of mainstream banRAB though. I just don't hold their popularity against them.
 
I think it depenRAB on where/what years you are looking at. I also think it'll be different for each person, depending on what they think/believe are important events and talent.

If I think back to the early 90's, I think Nirvana and grunge. I wouldn't say they were the must talented, but say they were influential in bringing more styles to the table.

Are we looking straight at talent and when banRAB were formed? I'd argue for the Red Hot Chili Peppers to be at their prime in the 90's...even though they started making music in the early 80's. I'd also put U2 in there as well, with a peak during the 90's.

I'd also lump Smashing Pumpkins & Wallflowers & Foo Fighters in there as well. I believe all of the above have great talent, and have some songwriting technique.

Now if I start to think about 2000 and beyond...I feel a bit lost. Maybe it's cause my prime listening years were in the 90s...I think I'm biased. Just like my parents say my generation's music is crap, I'm blaming this generations music as being crap so far.
 
The rest of the album was in the same style. Some pirate song talking about Im a pirate I can be dirty yeah!. wat

It seemed every song with lyrics or better yet narration was weak as hell and silly. And on top of that every song was like 3 minutes long. If Im listening to Jazz I want to sink into it and zone out, not feel like Im at Nickelodeon Studios. Is there a better album or is this pretty much what theyre about? The composition didnt seem that challenging to me either. If this is advancement give me retro all day. I fear the future.
 
I like songs that inspire me and move me, theres a reason pop songs are pop songs, because theyre good songs. Just because theyre popular doesnt mean theyre weak and simple. It takes taste to choose the right notes to best convey the emotion targeted by the song's concept. And that is the point of music, to reproduce emotion. Of course there is marketing bullshit music that seeps into and saturates the mainsteam but Im talking about the songs that stand the test of time, the creme. Music doesnt always have to push boundaries to be good, thats stupid. Any old clown can slap abstract notes and tones together and use crazy ass scales and call it innovative but if it doesnt touch you or make sense then why is it considered good? Just because its different? Listening to music shouldnt be a chore.
 
I wouldn't go that far (in fact, good hip hop artists are doing some of the most innovative stuff in the music industry right now (real hip hop, not some mainstream snap music shit, mind you)).

Actually the conclusion I came to is that electronic music -- not electronic as in techno music, but things like non-linear multitrack, sophisticated sampling, electronic instrument synthesis and manipulation -- all these things are very quickly transforming music. There are a number of genres that simply wouldn't have existed even 30 years ago due to a lack of technology.

Now at the same time as that enables a lot of artists who have nontraditional musical talent, it also makes it easier for anyone to crank out an album on autotune and a whole bunch of post-production, which is where we are today. A lot of record labels got burned by following the acts that college stations were breaking once the bottom fell out of the grunge movement, so in large part they returned to financing safer returns on investment by basically manufacturing their artists with, say, some hot chick and a shitload of studio work.

At any rate I think it's things like what I described in the preceding paragraph that are destroying music today. IMHO this perceived need to stick to "safe" artists and genres from the mainstream labels have really pigeonholed music in the last 15 years, and they're enabled by technology just the same way that other creative artists are making music now that would've been inaccessible to them just as many years ago, because that tech didn't exist. One side effect of this, I think, is the beginning of the end (or at least a plateauing) of the sort of musical icons of past generations.
 
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