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Old 09-03-2012, 19:20
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We've basically shifted to bland and boring music sung with no emotion.



They're all mediocre, especially Sheeran and Sande. 'Next to me' is just trying to jump on the Adele bandwagon.
In your opinion they are mediocre. I happen to like them, Emeli Sande has been working on her album for a long time so I very much doubt she has just jumped in the Adele bandwagon. I take it every singer who now does a ballad will be accused of jumping on the Adele bandwagon by you?

And no matter what you say, you can't deny even the "mediocre" (your words) Sheeran and Sande are better than the songs talking about putting your hands up in the air and getting drunk.
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Old 09-03-2012, 19:39
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Ah, you mean Hangover? Just found it on iTunes chart and listened to the 90-second preview - wow. Definitely one of his most repulsive songs yet, usually songs about drinking aren't as in-your-face as that.
Yeah, it's awful. The instrumental is EXACTLY the same as that really generic song by Flo Rida called Good Feeling which got to #1 a while ago. They all sound the same, it's so depressing.

Taio Cruz is already at #18 on iTunes. Gotye won't be #1 for much longer. Things will be back to normal soon.

All those Taio Cruz and Lady Gaga and Flo Rida songs are much more boring than Emeli Sande and Adele in my opinion.
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Old 09-03-2012, 19:42
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Yeah, it's awful. The instrumental is EXACTLY the same as that really generic song by Flo Rida called Good Feeling which got to #1 a while ago. They all sound the same, it's so depressing.

Taio Cruz is already at #18 on iTunes. Gotye won't be #1 for much longer. Things will be back to normal soon.
It's Taio's worst single to date! Give me 'I Just Wanna Know' or 'I'll Never Love Again' over this!
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Old 09-03-2012, 20:19
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And Emeli isn't mediocre, how rude. .
Why do you care so much?. Her voice isn't mediocre, but her songwriting certainly is.
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Old 09-03-2012, 21:55
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I see music such as Gotye's and Adele's as 'mainstream alternatives'. The reason they are so successful, imo, is due to their distinction from the majority of the commercial hits around at this time rather than a shift in mainstream musical tastes.
Lol what a load of s**t!
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Old 09-03-2012, 22:16
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Lol what a load of s**t!
He's right, they are mainstream alternatives. It can't be rock music, because rock isn't mainstream, but Adele and Ed Sheeran are mainstream, and in 2011, EVERYTHING was dance. Literally. So they did both stand out a lot. They haven't created a new sub-genre or anything. Their styles of music has been done many times before. But in the mainstream music scene of 2011, they most definitely did stand out.
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Old 09-03-2012, 22:18
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Does it really matter ? Musical tastes and genres shift all the time. You'll always get people decrying whatever genre becomes popular because it's not "their" genre and the cycle goes on.

Can't we just enjoy all music ?
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Old 09-03-2012, 23:57
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Yeah, it's awful. The instrumental is EXACTLY the same as that really generic song by Flo Rida called Good Feeling which got to #1 a while ago. They all sound the same, it's so depressing.

Taio Cruz is already at #18 on iTunes. Gotye won't be #1 for much longer. Things will be back to normal soon.

All those Taio Cruz and Lady Gaga and Flo Rida songs are much more boring than Emeli Sande and Adele in my opinion.
Agreed about the song, all Taio's songs are sounding the same recently.

About your last sentence though: I definitely agree about Taio Cruz and Flo Rida being generic and therefore boring, but Lady Gaga? I'm not a fan but I can never consider someone like her as boring or generic. While Rihanna's constantly singing about sex and Katy Perry's music doesn't stand out a great deal, it's nice to have a pop star who sings about 'Judas' or being 'born this way'. At least she's actually distinctive and has personality in her music, IMO anyway.

I could understand if you meant that she does electro-pop like the other two but the language she uses is at least different to what you'd expect.
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Old 10-03-2012, 02:26
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Well not really 2010 started off with Fireflies didn't end club music then did it.
Fireflies is that far removed from club music though is it.It is very danceable isn't it - definatly part of the rediciously named, misnomer of a tag, Indie-Disco.or part of broader elctro-pop
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Old 10-03-2012, 02:45
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Does it really matter ? Musical tastes and genres shift all the time. You'll always get people decrying whatever genre becomes popular because it's not "their" genre and the cycle goes on.

Can't we just enjoy all music ?
In the '60's, '70's, '80's or even '90's the pace of change was much quicker though.Popular genres seem to stick around for ages these days (even though they have evolved/ fused with other popular music genres slowly e.g. electro-dance / hip-hop).I thought society was supposed to be fast paced / ever changing these days.Pop music seems to be a crutch against too much change to my mind - very conservative.Hip -hop has been around since the late '70's, for example - still regarded as being 'cool' & modern for some reason (30 years old now - what happened to the generation gap, at least 5 years over that now)

Just googled this article about the generation gap in Hip-hop http://allhiphop.com/2009/09/05/is-t...lling-hip-hop/

There doesn't seem to be much of backlash / generation divide happening with Hip-hop.Perhaps there is a little bit of a generation gap with Britpop (dad rock) - but even that has it's following with alot teenagers e.g. Blur being on Brit Awards / being part of Olympics closing ceremony / Oasis & off shoots still being popular with youngsters etc.
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Old 10-03-2012, 03:11
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Fireflies isn't that far removed from club music though is it.It is very danceable isn't it - definatly part of the rediciously named, misnomer of a tag, Indie-Disco.or part of broader elctro-pop
correction
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Old 10-03-2012, 04:14
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It can't be rock music, because rock isn't mainstream
So the Foo Fighters are't mainstream are they.Rock music has ,generally, never done well in singles charts.Pop-rock seems to have gone in a adult-contemporary or even dance-rock direction even.There are alot less Rock bands that have achieved mainstream status around these days though (alot more in the USA).

The UK media seems to have an agenda against promoting popular rock music, which means that alot of rock doesn't make it to that mainstream status.There are 100's of moderately popular rock bands though.If you add the popularity of those bands altogether you will find that rock music, as a whole, is the most popular form of music by a long way.Even the broad based Heavy Metal genre is the most popular genre of music in the UK.There are so many sub-genres & divides in fan loyalty within those sub-genres most bands don't even get above moderate sales even.

Rock is a massive market though.A completely different animal to 'pop' music .It all depends on how you define mainstream (parts of the sum, or sum of the parts).The out right statement of saying 'rock music isn't mainstream' is factually incorrect though without expanding it a little.
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