Every generation since Adam and Eve have considered the music their kids listen to as nothing more than “that noise.” But today’s music is shockingly toxic, and Alfonzo Rachel wants to know why it’s so hard to get GOOD music made? I agree. How about you?
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11 replies on “Bad Music”
Correction, Bill. ‘Zo is not a musician. He’s a drummer. 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Love you ‘Zo, couldn’t pass that one up.
I don’t see the promised link to Zo’s music …
It’s been 17 days since a Virtue Signal dropped … I was starting to get concerned that the show had been canked. Concern alleviated, relief now abundant.
I began playing brass instruments (french horn, trombone, euphonium) when I was twelve – and I haven’t stopped at age 66. I enlisted in the Army and finished a career as a musician, getting formal training along the way. Pop music back in the 60s and even 70s had all the elements that Bill mentioned — rhythm, harmony, melody. It even had some of the poetry that Zo mentioned, and there weren’t a lot of pop songs that didn’t feature vocals and lyrics.
The 60s featured pop music and rock that was counterculture and rejected “normality” but it wasn’t nearly as destructive as the horrific junk being produced today.
I didn’t even know what “rap” music was until I returned to the U.S. from Germany in 1994. And I was put off by it then as I still reject it today. It doesn’t “click” for me because it doesn’t have the elements of music I expect to hear. The profanity is meant to shock, and I suppose it does. But that shock value wears off after a steady diet of it and it just becomes tiresome.
Others can appreciate this so-called “art” if they like, but I refuse to call it “art”. It’s violence in a box, and that box is named Pandora. Pandora is out and about now, and I’m not talking about the music web site.
I don’t care what you think about profanity, “We’ll put a boot in your ass; it’s the American way” is still one of the greatest lines in music.
I love and collect music from Baroque to the Beach Boys.
However, I remember going into my local record shop back in the late sixties, complaining to the guy behind the counter why nobody “sings” any more. They just scream into the microphone and call that singing. It forced me to completely quit on popular music in the late sixties. That is when, to me, music died.
More recently, my daughter was admiring my record collection and I complained to her about my feelings of the present state of music.
She told me that there are actually still some popular musicians and singers that I would probably like. She then played me some Michael Bublé. I must say, I was totally amazed! And I was wrong. Music is not dead. There actually is some good music out there. But it is scattered amongst a LOT of noise.
“The Great Society” Bill passed by Lyndon Johnson in the 60s paid women to have babies outside of wedlock. The men were told if they stayed involved with their progeny the money would stop. This eroded the nuclear family, particularly in the black community. The percentage of children raised in a nuclear family plunged from around 74% down to a nadir of around 18% in four decades.
Along with that rose music, particularly of the “Rap” genre, that glorified sex out of marriage, referred to the fairer sex as “bitches” and “hoes”, and disrespected everything that made our Judeo-Christian nation as wonderful as any culture in history.
Rap music is almost entirely coarse, misogynistic, and shockingly animalistic as a result of a society that strives for men to not have to care for women and families.
Good music can sound “corny” to the modern listener, with Motown lyrics sounding dated and “white” for the most part. But there are songs in the Motown catalog that are beautiful, don’t sound dated, and still are respectful to morals and virtue.
As long as we raise victimhood status above everything else and tear apart the family, I fear that positivity reflected in art and music will go away.
A subject near and dear to me. I’m a music lover from way back.
This isn’t new, but it’s definitely gotten much worse. And “shock” – that’s basically a cheap way to get attention – and it WORKS.
I remember back in the ’80’s when punk bands were on the rise of punk the band names were even becoming ridiculous – I jokingly proposed we start a band called “Raw Sewage” and their hit song would be “Eow Fahk Yoo!!!:
“Civil Society”. Something I miss dearly.
I’m not a fan of rap, either, and I don’t think it’s “music” although I will disagree with Bill on it on one element. It does have rhythm. That’s all it has. Rhythm and words (I hesitate to call them “lyrics”)
I am an amateur musician myself. I once took a course on “how to make a million in the music business” — from a guy who was in a British 60’s — and I found out that it was “go out and hit the bars the kids are going to and mimmic the music they like”. I was out, right there (I didn’t take the course to make a million, I just wanted to make my music better).
Incidentally the guy who recommended the course to me was a conservative fried who was in an Eagles cover band in New York.
Anyway, I put out an actual self-produced album of all originals a couple of years ago.
I never expect to make a dime off of it – I made it for the joy of making music. On the other hand, I do like it when people hear it and tell me how much they like it.
We don’t have the marketing structure to get this stuff out.
This song isn’t on the album, it’s out as a single. I apologize for the video quality. I’ve got no budget and I’m no Bill Whittle.
I’ve shared it before, but I’m going to just throw it out there for ya. It’s my reaction to the summer of 2020. Oh yes, and there’s cowbell. 🙂
(1) Senses (Original) – YouTube
Watching this on the website, I don’t see the link Bill mentioned at all. When one of these videos comes up on YT I generally click on it to give it a like (and I am supposedly subscribed) but they don’t come up very often. Can those links be included on the website?
I agree. There seems to be a contradiction in the presentation of the video productions on this site. On the one hand, we are paying members who have the benefit of watching and commenting on these productions on the BW.C site; however, if we wish to contribute to the Thumbs-up and/or Like counters, we must navigate to the video hosting sites (i.e., Rumble, YT, etc.) and find the specific videos to click the corresponding buttons. If the links to each video on the various hosting servers were shared on these pages, then accessing those buttons would be simplified. Unfortunately, this would require additional effort on behalf of the limited resources of Bill et al. If only this could be automated … hmmmmmm. 💡
Me too! Watched it on YouTube and then came to the BW.com and no link!