I've never listened to any of these artists, so I just took a random sampling from YouTube and it begs the question, what makes this "modern" music? The Architects sound like any metal band from the last 30-odd years, Tommee Profitt sounds like Nine Inch Nails or Stabbing Westward circa 1996 (or Gary Numan from the early 2000's) and the Avi Kaplan song I listened to was just folk music. Dhani Harrison has that soft-rock "indie" sound that's got to be 25 years old now and completely lacking in anything to recommend it. Nothing new, nothing original. In fact, it all sounded utterly derivative. The Tommee Profitt song, in particular, was just cliche after cliche. I didn't hate it but it was nothing special.I don't think that modern music is awful at all, listen to people and stuff like: Olivia Rodrgio, Jorja Smith, Maise Peters, Dhani Harrison, Willow, JoJo, Teddy Swims, The Architects (especially with orchestra at Abby Road), Tommee Profitt, Dorothy, Avi Kaplan, Aisha Vaughan, Tash Sultana, REN and many more...
To me that's what's wrong with modern music - it's far too derivative. I don't know what you do about that; if everything worth doing has already been done, it's hard to expect anything new to be as good as that which went before. But these artists aren't even trying.
Statistics: Posted by BONES — Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:47 am
