It's extremely easy to tell the difference between a song from the year 2000 and 1985.
So why do songs from 2001 sound almost completely indistinguishable to songs in 2016? Is there some kind of creative or cultural stagnation going on?
but music from 2001 and 2016 sound totally different
technical advancement of production techniques/technology has slowed significantly in the last 15 years. ive realized that a lot of what defines the sound of a decade has to do with new technology that was available and learning how to use it.
>>64344450
That and OP is probably listening to pleb shit and not innovative artists
>>64344500
OP here, I was deliberately talking about pleb shit
Pleb shit then vs pleb shit now. What's wrong with that? It's still part of the scene.
Pleb shit from 2000 didn't sound as different from 1985 as you think.
The Star Trek Enterprise theme sounded like a 80s stadium rock ballad
>>64344579
Well I'll give an example:
Here's the Billboard Top 1 Single for 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdEGq4z6fP0
Billboard Top 1 Single for 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmsZUN4r_s
Billboard Top 1 Single for 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0
It seems to me pretty obviously that if you had never heard these three songs before you'd easily place the first one in the 80s but the second and third you'd have trouble placing in either the 90s, 00s or 10s.
>>64344658
Uptown Funk is a 70s funk/disco throwback song though, its not supposed to sound modern.
Criticizing a song from 2000 for sounding like it could be from the 90s is retarded since it more or less still is the 90s. Breathe in no way sounds like something from 2016 either
Compare 50 Cent or DMX whoever was big in 2000 to todays trap and pop-soul artists. They sound nothing alike
That depends on what genre of music were talking about here.
Most R&B and rap sounds the same but I feel rock has made a lot of progress but no one cares b/c most of rock is pretty much dead
>>64344735
I'll give that it wasn't the best example since Breathe does sound a bit towards the 90s end of things and yeah Uptown Funk is a throw back.
But about the only difference I can tell between late 90s / early 00s pop songs and 2016 pop songs is the latter usually turns up the autotune to 11.
Going to go out on a limb and say you weren't a conscious human being at the time. Even if you were a child during the '90s, you weren't old enough to be aware of the trends particular to the era.
Now your an aesthetically aware adult (I presume). Imagine if you were living during the '80s at this age. Synthpop and New Wave would sound cutting edge and modern, wouldn't it?
The styles that are popular now (femboy falsetto vocals for pop/indie, autotune + trap hi hats for hip hop, EDM flavored pop) are all going to sound just as distinct as the style of the '80s and '90s.
>>64344837
>autotune in 2016
You have literally no idea what you're talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThlhSnRk21E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiY_iKSpWLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqeW9_5kURI
Again, nothing alike
>>64344904
Alright so not autotune but echo abuse
Early 2000s buttrock was basically 80s hair metal
>>64344658
You're just cherrypicking anon
Billboard Top 1 Single for 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s__rX_WL100
Billboard Top 1 Single for 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpspGHeLOPE
Billboard Top 1 Single for 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFnPBiAk5JA
this sounds nothing like 2016
>>64345865
Yeah, it sounds like some 2030s shit cause of how badly music has regressed.
Shallow lyrics over shitty techno beats with some hip hop beat compared to catch lyrics, a beat made in an expensive studio and not off a laptop.
Face it the music production has dwindled in quality and authenticity.
>>64344328
Music used to sound UNIMAGINABLE to past eras. For example, there were songs in 1967 that would have been almost inconceivable in 1957.
That doesn't happen anymore.
I can't think of anything in 2016 that musicians in 2006 simply could not have made.
Why is that?
>>64346480
Was there any music that sounded like Arca in 2002
>>64346564
I would throw in Deafheaven, Death Grips (Techno Animal and Dalek aren't the same), and even Altar of Plagues sounds so different from standard Black Metal. SOPHIE and Clarence Clarity are pretty out there when it comes to unique sounds. Oneohtrix Point Never gets in there as well.
>>64344328
>Is there some kind of creative or cultural stagnation going on
yes. its the influence of the internet on popular culture.
I'm dead fucking serious.
>>64347617
This. As much as the internet has brought us, it will eventually unify us all globally, which means no more 'diversity' in the long run. As spoken about in the Bible during End Times, where faith and religion is banned, and the Antichrist will bring misery to billions under a banner of peace.
