Has Pop Music Got Worse In Recent Decades?

[Pigmy Pony]

Well I reckon that modern chart music is cack. What does everyone else think?

[Macca]

Even I am subject to it, I’m still on an iPhone 5s my second iphone from new in 9 years. My colleagues sneer and snigger at it and me saying I’m out of date and it’s old hat, really! Unfortunately the younger people are conditioned from an early age to have the newest and if possible the best, and that is not necessarily supported by quality or substance, but popularity.

Yes I get this too, I just laugh at them, I do actually find it really funny that people can be so tragic.

And having wandered about a few 'developing' countries I actually think that referring to 'poverty' in the UK is actually a bit of an insult to the people living in those places. By global standards no-one in the UK is 'poor' or 'in poverty'. Added to that there seems to be a whole industry of middle-class professionals making a tidy living off the back of the so-called UK poverty.

Anyway, enough of my ranting.

[AJSki2fly]

fancy phone ehmine's a 5c; its poorer cousin. still does the job, and it was second hand too...lol

Yep I as long as it works who cares, although I did go for the flash gold 5S, says it all really

Now back to more interesting stuff called music and hifi or even lofi

[Pigmy Pony]

Music isn't standalone these days, but rather is just a part of the 'entertainment' industry, which includes films, TV. sport, computer games, online gambling, and I'm sure there are others. Perhaps there isn't the same level of passion in it that there was 30 or so years ago.

[Sherwood]

Music isn't standalone these days, but rather is just a part of the 'entertainment' industry, which includes films, TV. sport, computer games, online gambling, and I'm sure there are others. Perhaps there isn't the same level of passion in it that there was 30 or so years ago.

I've not played a computer game since Uni but there seems to be as much passion for computer games amongst today's generation as mine had for a decent hifi and records.

It's not that there is no passion, it's that the passion is for other competing uses of leisure time.

[Roy S]

fancy phone ehmine's a 5c; its poorer cousin. still does the job, and it was second hand too...lol

I got a 6 cheap off ebay & have a sim only contract (about £16 a month?), my other half has an 8 on contract, think she pays around £40 a month and I can't tell much difference between her phone & my phone & today's chart/pop music is pretty dire..

[struth]

football is same. nowhere near the people watching or playing now.. too many other distractions

[Pigmy Pony]

I've not played a computer game since Uni but there seems to be as much passion for computer games amongst today's generation as mine had for a decent hifi and records.

It's not that there is no passion, it's that the passion is for other competing uses of leisure time.

Yes that is what I meant.

[struth]

I got a 6 cheap off ebay & have a sim only contract (about £16 a month?), my other half has an 8 on contract, think she pays around £40 a month and I can't tell much difference between her phone & my phone & today's chart/pop music is pretty dire..

yup, ive got a sim from virgin. £12 a month. might be 13 now.. they phoned me up during black friday and said they would save a lot of money with a new phone. i said i could save a lot more by keeping my phone

[Pigmy Pony]

I got a 6 cheap off ebay & have a sim only contract (about £16 a month?), my other half has an 8 on contract, think she pays around £40 a month and I can't tell much difference between her phone & my phone & today's chart/pop music is pretty dire..

My iPhone 5 is a cast off from a family member and is more than good enough for me. I'm far too lazy to spend time learning all of its features, so no point upgrading. My sim-only contract is £13 a month (EE) and gives all the whatever that I need.