Do you see the evolution of popular music as a positive or a negative?

I think it’s both. Pop music, sometimes made people more emotionally sensitive, subtle, etc. etc. but also (in my opinion) made us rather rebellious from time to time..

Well…take it this way. In the past few hundred years, music has miraculously evolved from Mozart to Lil Wayne. I’m not saying that all modern music is bad, but I prefer classical music over modern hands down.

I agree, modern music is a step backwards though I like some genres. But I wouldn’t call country a step forwards. It is one of the genres I find useless.

It just is.

I have no judgement either way, though I know what I like. My tastes lean in a very indie rock direction, but I like something from almost every genre.

As a personal metal head, I must say metal has come a long way and even though it’s not as mainstream as hip hop or pop it is more popular today then it was when I started listening to it. As a musician I’d also say that Metal/rock is getting more intricate while quite the opposite is happening with pop. I swear just tonight alone on the radio station they play at work (kind of a poppy one) I heard the same drum beat for most of the songs. I don’t think pop really appeals to adults as it used to.

Country on the other hand I think is becoming more poppy, which I don’t think is a good thing. Never really been a fan and quite despise country music all together, but being the musician I am I can see talent in some artists, but for the most part I don’t think it sounds much different from the rest. Old country was unique and quite different than it is today, in which if I did like country music it would probably be older stuff.

Oh yea and what happen to straight up gangsta rap? Lol, all rappers talk about now’a’days is get’n some hot booty back to their place to poor money and rims all over them. What happen to hard times in the ghetto? Making a fight just to make it through the day? I want some uplifting shit! lol

Metal though, speaking as a musician is gotten quite amazing. It takes a lot of talent to play what today’s metal bands play.

~Edit~ I also looooooove blues! To play it, listen to it. Blues is almost the only music that hasn’t changed. It’s sad happy and emotionally driven to the soul and I love soaking it in and dishing it out.

I like most of the new music.

I see it as both. I am a fan of some older music and some newer music but I can’t say I like everthing from any given time period. For example, I adore Beethoven but I wouldn’t want to choose between Beethoven and Alicia Keys.

niether – music is music, theres something for every taste, whether its new or old :)

after nirvana, everything went to hell :s

Like most normal people, I consider everything up to my own time to be an improvement, and everything after that a disaster. Oh these young people nowadays (ie everyone under the age of 37), they listen to all that nonesense!

@Jack79 – I can only speak for myself, but I do like much of the newer music as well as a healthy dose of the older stuff and I’m 53 years old, so I understand exactly what you’re saying. However, I detest mindless, mass-produced, cookie cutter pablum whose music and lyrics appear to have been written hastily in a moldy mens room under the effects of heavily-cut cocaine such as: Eminem, Lady Gaga, dozens of Pearl Jam wannabes, most pre-1980’s country music and anything stillborn of American Idol. I actually hope that a song will be catchy. I also hope that if it IS catchy, that it took an IQ larger than someone’s shoe size and more than thirty or forty seconds to develop the lyrics, because there’s absolutely nothing worse than having a great and catchy tune with horrible lyrics stuck in your head all day. At that point, the style and genre means very little. All I ask is that some thought and talent goes into the production of said music.