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Old 04-01-2017, 11:17
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But as it seems the vast majority of their output is simply cover versions of well known songs, so in that regards they are producing nothing new.
Not true. No X Factor contestants have put out a cover version this year. Little Mix, Olly Murs, James Arthur all released original material. Even The X Factor winners single this year wasn't a cover (for only the second time in history).
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Old 04-01-2017, 13:04
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I think if you listen to Radio One (shudder) or even look at the top forty, then yes pop music probably is dead, but as I don't, I think it's been a very good year for music. Infinitely better than 2015. Great albums by - for want of a better term - artists who couldn't give a fiddle if they make the top forty or not - Radiohead, The Pixies, Iggy Pop, Drive By Truckers to name but four, suggest things aren't over yet. The downside of this of course is eventually, if things aren't selling at all, the artists simply won't be able to release anything. I thought the internet was supposed to be 'the great leveller.' Hasn't quite turned out like that has it? Simon Cowells endless shit factory goes from commercial strength to strength while anything original has literally been strangled out of the charts. A real pity...
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Old 04-01-2017, 14:46
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Not true. No X Factor contestants have put out a cover version this year. Little Mix, Olly Murs, James Arthur all released original material. Even The X Factor winners single this year wasn't a cover (for only the second time in history).
You make that sound like an achievement...
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:39
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You make that sound like an achievement...
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But as it seems the vast majority of their output is simply cover versions of well known songs, so in that regards they are producing nothing new.
I was disproving that.
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:12
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Don't listen to mainstream music then, there is plenty of brilliant music out there just broaden your horizons.
Exactly. I have become progressively less interested in mainstream music as I've aged, think much of it is aimed at a younger demographic and as the OP is in his 30s, perhaps it's now time to look elsewhere.

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EDM is dead, it's on it's knees, every song sounds the same and is so predictable.
Bollocks.
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Old 04-01-2017, 17:28
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But as it seems the vast majority of their output is simply cover versions of well known songs, so in that regards they are producing nothing new.
Was Metallica's album "Hardwired", good as it was, really offering anything new or original? And The Stones album was an album of covers. Were these examples of the year the music died?

The 1975 album was quite brilliant.

yet simon cowell acts have not had that much dominance...

the rot started much earlier when manufactured acts become accepted as normal. ie my old argument about pete waterman and s/a/w. old men creating the whole pop package instead of old men facilitating what the young wanted to try...
I would agree that X Factor acts haven't had that much impact on the charts. The three mentioned below have had some longevity though.

Not true. No X Factor contestants have put out a cover version this year. Little Mix, Olly Murs, James Arthur all released original material. Even The X Factor winners single this year wasn't a cover (for only the second time in history).
The artists mentioned all put out original material, quite diverse in the case of Little Mix who are a pretty decent pop act.
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