How come 80's pop was so much better than today's pop music?
I'd take Prince and Michael Jackson over Drake and 21 Pilots any day.
You'd need brain damage to disagree, but I just think the problem is artists making music for profit and fame and none of it comes from their heart or has any meaning to them. It's just chintzy crap that exists just to exist, people will force themselves to like it for lack of anything better.
>>65613398
Well the 80's had stupid songs too but at least they were catchy and not overproduced.
I'd take a stupid 80's song over "deep" lyrics like "I AM BLURRYFACE AND I CARE WHAT YOU THINK"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXu6QmxpJE
>>65613374
Who else agrees with me that this was the quintessential song of the 80's. Electronic Drums , Heavy on Keyboards and synths, Tie in to a famous movie soundtrack. Soaring vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwS66EBUcY
>>65614210
Holy shit, post more 80s classics, please
>>65614446
okay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2O9ryz7Eik
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oiqiYdWXiM
>>65613447
I really like 80s music actually, I love the empty coked out synth sound.
>>65614714
>Not posting best H&O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGZwPGsfcwM
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDWqZwrrGEc
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ
>there are people posting on this board RIGHT NOW who don't think Arcadia was the height of 80's pop
>>65614782
daryl hall is a great vocalist
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBK2L_o0ICE
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kc1KySTgs
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGpBUCjH950
>>65615078
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9abYzI9ycjk
Yes I unironically enjoy Wham
80s music is delicious indeed, just not all of it. It was a time when a lot of progressive rock and punk musicians from the 70s tried the new found synth pop formula of the decade, resulting in tons of great music.
I have to say though, without being a fan of popular music in general, i think it's gotten better over the last 3-4 years. There's “some“ listenable stuff out there.
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4UqmbzIq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZWSrr5wFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk
New Wave is best wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw
>this is what 14 year olds actually believe
wait 15 years and your kids will be saying the same thing about the 2010s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmH1xQ2Pf4
Because artists put emphasis on music and catchiness, then on vocal tonality, and lyrics took the last place in terms of relevance.
It also helps that a mix of synth and blowing instruments always makes everything sound fun as fuck.
Today, lyrics rule, and music is secondary. It's all about self-important faggots trying to be messengers and saviors, or narcissistic Facebook faggots focusing on having everyone listen to their putrid irrelevant opinions and thoughts.
Welcome to the present era of narcissism. It has infected music.
Not that there aren't good musicians today. Take techno music for example.
It has such popularity because it's techno, but most importantly because the artist is focused on the music rather than on making some message.
I guess i can use techno as an example to support my previous claims.
>>65615637
This video made my day, now this must be posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l039y9FaIjc
>>65615808
I agree, these shallow faggots should just write poems, but then they couldn't disguise it's shittiness with shitty music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDjMZKf-wg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG1hFvyvIPc
So OP you wish you could turn back time to the good dope days?
Even the fucking movies in the 80's had better music than actual music today:
https://youtu.be/SBe1hwg7V-M?t=1m27s
>>65616038
Uh, yeah, about that. We have a pretty bad opiate problem now, so it would be fitting.
>>65614446
No one has posted I Like It yet? This is one of the tightest songs ever made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqaKisKIyUo
>>65614446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs
best thread on /mu/ atm
spandu ballet best ballet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrFRSS6N8U4
>80's ''''''''''''''''''''music''''''''''''''''''''''''
bronski beat - smalltown boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuz94ZIPfJk
>>65616203
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2_gOpU0eWU
sandra - maria magdalena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1DIV8V_zwQ
you know this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Bloody hell m8ys, I really hope this is just a bait thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2wNUC0Dqsw
