I feel global political oppression or global wars usually produce great music but Macklemore might be the peak.
Nothing against him, some of his songs are good, but I expected real rage inducing stuff with everything going on. Or is this just the state of music as a whole?
I’m a 90s kid and I never got into music like this. I always had single songs I liked, including from RatM, Nirvana etc but I never really cared about more than 1 or 2 songs of any individual artist, or albums. I just didn’t like the other songs.
I assume the reason why you have these “recognizable” names was solely because music was sold in albums. People couldn’t reaaaally get music conveniently any other way. And only the biggest ones could afford to produce albums in the first place. So even if you liked 1 or 2 songs only, you were “forced” to buy the whole album and since you got it already, why not listen to the rest. And since you didn’t have infinite money to buy infinite albums you listened to the same ones again and again.
I never really did that. I bought an album and actually only listened to one song or I bought compilations. I never cared about a particular artist, only about songs. The current music acquisition process is perfect for me, I find plenty of amazing songs everywhere. Do I know the artist of my songs? Not really, and I don’t care. When I meet someone, we listen to each other’s music together. I vibe with and pick single new songs from them. We don’t bond over artists, we bond over music. I think everything is perfect that way.
Edit: just one German example of a popular song that many people here know that criticizes shit here in the country: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y-B0lXnierw
That guy is a Hardcore Zionist. He released a song with his band last year called October in Europe where they had texts like:
To add to the discussion, watch out for bands getting banned all the time. The British rapper Lowkey, for example, has some hard-hitting lyrics and beautiful melodies. Very political, too!
You’re like my polar opposite. I like listening to albums because songs go together usually. I hate streaming services, but mostly Spotify because their UI is so trash it just pushes you to playlists.
It’s why I’ve just returned to Downloading music and using an iPod until I get my own streaming server set up.
I mean I hate streaming services too and download my music, never used Spotify. I use rateyourmusic and listenbrainz if I want recommendations, or threads like this or other word of mouth.
I didn’t listen to these bands when I was younger. I listen to a lot of rap (southern rap). I thought Nirvana sucked when I listened to them. The older I get the more relevant the music has become. 60s and 70s music as well. The 80s has its moments but rhip-hop really shines through.
I just feel like todays music is so tame at times. Especially from the “top” performers. No one has a stance or rally cry. It is just remixes and pointless shit.
So music for you only means something if it’s political?
Like 30% of my music is instrumental, many others who have voices but no distinguishable words, and some of those are my most favorite music ever. I almost never listen to the words in music.
Thay was never my statement. I said we usually get great music when it is like this. Even classical music makes statements with no word.
What kind of “statements” does classical music make? For me instrumental music just sounds nice, or it doesn’t. No statement involved.
Classical music had plays attached to them. They 100% made political statements for their times.
https://www.operanorth.co.uk/news/fidelio-in-a-nutshell/
deleted by creator