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Modern rap degeneracy
Sheepocalypse:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on July 15, 2017, 12:19:47 PM ---comparing an 80s hit to a 2017 hit is an awful idea. it really just shows that you judge song quality based on your own specific and biased criteria rather than influence and popularity, the only objective method of judging music
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Okay, lets compare modern to modern then.
I don't like Metallica, but this song came out a few months ago and its very popular. I'd be lying if I said I didn't hear this on my car's radio every once in a while.
--- Quote ---Blacked out
Pop queen, amphetamine
The screams crashed into silence
Tapped out
Doused in the gasoline
The high times going timeless
Decadence
Death of the innocence
The pathway starts to spiral
Infamy
All for publicity
Destruction going viral
Light it up
Ah, light it up
Another hit erases all the pain
Bulletproof
Ah, kill the truth
You’re falling, but you think you’re flying high
High again
Sold your soul
Built a higher wall
Yesterday
Now you’re thrown away
Same rise and fall
Who cares at all?
Seduced by fame
A moth into the flame
Twisted
Backstabbing wicked
The delusion absolution
Perjurer
Fame is the murderer
Seduce you into ruin
Light it up
Ah, light it up
Another hit erases all the pain
Bulletproof
Ah, tell the truth
You’re falling, but you think you’re flying high
High again
Sold your soul
Built the higher wall
Yesterday
Now you’re thrown away
...
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Now, my bus driver would play this on the radio nearly every day
--- Quote ---I got broads in Atlanta
Twistin' dope, lean, and the Fanta
Credit cards and the scammers
Hittin' off licks in the bando
Black X6, Phantom
White X6 looks like a panda
Goin' out like I'm Montana
Hundred killers, hundred hammers
Black X6, Phantom
White X6, panda
Pockets swole, Danny
Sellin' bar, candy
Man I'm the macho like Randy
The choppa go Oscar for Grammy
Bitch brother pull up ya panty
Hope you killas understand me
(repeats)
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Trogtor:
good music is only found by making your own discoveries. you won't find anything good listening to the radio so just put it in your head that anyone who listens to mainstream is garbage
hootaloo:
hey yall its almost like music is subjective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiSwGbv4QUg
PhantOS:
--- Quote from: Sheepocalypse on July 15, 2017, 12:28:34 PM ---Okay, lets compare modern to modern then.
Now, my bus driver would play this on the radio nearly every day
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music isn't comparable because people have their own subjective opinions. whatever is most popular gets played the most. it's popular for a reason, a reason that you, with a different taste in music, won't understand
if that particular metallica song charted #2 on the top 100 charts then it would be played all over the radio, because its popular
Mega-Bear:
--- Quote from: Sheepocalypse on July 15, 2017, 12:28:34 PM ---Okay, lets compare modern to modern then.
I don't like Metallica, but this song came out a few months ago and its very popular. I'd be lying if I said I didn't hear this on my car's radio every once in a while.
Now, my bus driver would play this on the radio nearly every day
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Again, none of these lyrics are remarkable. Metallica might be more focused on generating the long-winded imagery of a soothsayer, but desiigner pays greater attention to rhythm and references to facets of urban culture. they are specializing in very different things.
--- Quote from: hootaloo on July 15, 2017, 12:30:33 PM ---hey yall its almost like music is subjective
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This is just as bad as what the op is saying. First off, music is objective. taste in music is subjective. Secondly, subjectivity in our tastes should not be a cop-out to end discussion. it should be the jumping off point for many discussions like this.