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Entry: Why is contemporary music so bad? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/why_is_contemporary_music_so_bad#22081 Post contents: It aint the "contemporary" that makes current music so bad, it's the damnable noise of popularity that does. I'm quite certain that there were no small number, of twanging thumpers afoot when Haydn was alive. The difference today is that the "popular" of this nervous and jerky culture is nearly as omnipresent as the air we breathe. Advertising , packaging and Marketing have compounded the tragedy by elevating a kind of sunny dim brute dramatic hyperbole to a national soundtrack..... like bird breeding season in the northeast woods if all birdsong was like the braying of mules. One must work a bit harder to find it against the full bore backdrop of bellowing stupidity but there is a lot of good music and other art about if you look for it, live and otherwise. If you're in a city, you don't actually have to look to hard, just don't follow what the critics and their newspapers say. The real question is why popular culture is so bad and how have the elite class allowed themselves to be so breezily bamboozled by it. But then, that would be courting the obvious given the rather reduced circumstances we find our elite class to be in these days, evolutionally speaking. Sent at: 2009 01 09