What happened to good music?

im 16 i like heavy metal unlike most teenagers my age who like dirty techno and hip-hop. what happened to the skill of playing a guitar. how did a solo turn into a computer making music for you are artists just lazy. music takes no skill anymore before you needed to know how to play instruments but nowadays anyone can do it as long as you have a computer and a half decent voice.What happened to good music?
i totally agree, but my main opinion is about how people think of music as an easy way to make money. im not saying i wouldn't want to get paid to do what i love which is playing guitar, but good music is becoming ignored now. i respect anyone who likes metal, since metal is all about talent and not about the money.





people our age (im 15) are all into that rap and hiphop bullshit, and they view slayer as ';satan loving freaks'; and any other good metal band as ';screamo'; which is an insult to any band. i live around houston, which is full of the mexican an black ';gangsters'; who are always singing that rap **** out loud which all i hear is ';got money on the low, bitches gettin dough *****!'; which sounds like ****.





once i hit 18, im movin my metalhead *** out to somewhere else, most likely northern europe where metal isnt ignored.What happened to good music?
yeah, Pretty much they just took a giant crap on most good music, its sad really. All you have to do now is sing, no one cares if you can play an instrument.b;vhjkc,km,
the band phoenix. neko case. vampire weekend. silversun pick ups. MGMT. passion pit. kings of leon. are all pretty new and pretty good.
It's called P-R-O-F-I-T. Originality doesn't sell anymore. The prettiest candy wrapper on the same, familiar, flavor is what sells.





Good news is, you're young enough that you will see the winds of change blow this away too.





For me, my generation had to live through disco ('70's) and then pop-metal ('80's). After disco crapped out, we had great bands like AC/DC and Judas Priest and The Clash come through. After the hair metal era, Alice in Chains /Tool/Pearl Jam, etc.





So, it comes and goes. Though I admit, this garbage has been building since the mid '90's, someday artists will come up with the courage to say enough is enough. Keep the faith.
and don't forget the voice thing they do now to adjust your pitch and tone so you sound better than you really are. That is where that electronica voice sound (that I very much hate) comes from, playing with the adjustments.





Music tends to go in cycles. The corporations really have a lot of control on what is published and what is played. Corporations go for formula and mediocrity because it doesn't ';offend'; and thus sells. marketing is what drives the music scene on the large, and not music quality. Every so often bubbles of new styles or new talents break out into the open despite the corporate suppression. Some of this music eventually gets gobbled up and sanitized by the corporates, making it necessary for a new cycle of ';fringe'; elements to fight their way out into the open.





Tend to be bursts of really good music as a result.
it's still there, you just have to look harder.


i completely agree with you though, the media is over saturated with auto-tuned bullshit.


some newish bands i'd recommend from various metal and rock genres are:


molotov solution


parkway drive


the red shore


them crooked vultures


lamb of god


esoterica


house vs. hurricane


orbs


the butterfly effect
Hahahahahaha, heavy metal? Good music? Please, if your gonna complain about crap music today, don't compare it to even shittier music.