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Andreas Krauß's avatar

Ah, Andy, but why should you refuse to listen to music just because it is 80 years old?

As long as the music is good, what can its age possibly matter?

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Joshua Clement Broyles's avatar

Sure. Why not 180 years? Why not 580 years?

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Andreas Krauß's avatar

Exactly. If the music is good, what does it matters how old it is?

Can't answer that simple question?

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Joshua Clement Broyles's avatar

The article isn't about people refusing to listen to older music. It's about people listening to less new music than supposedly they used to. You'll notice, though, that the article almost exclusively treats the idea that young people are listening to Boomer music, and doesn't examine other facets of the trend that might be more telling, such as whether young people today listen to more medieval music that Boomers did when they were young. Why would they not be?

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Drew Conlin's avatar

Or is it about the people in control aren’t interested in music at all but what makes the most??

There was a time when music execs actually liked music… so did promoters and record execs… now? Not sure.

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Joshua Clement Broyles's avatar

[Or is it about the people in control aren’t interested in music at all but what makes the most] The "people in control" are somewhat divisible into those who are trying to milk intellectual property rights and people who are trying to milk the public domain. Eventually, they will begin to conspire more. Disney has really dropped the ball by not adding a distinct bridge to Toot Toot Tootsie so they can sue people who forget to cut off that part when they duplicate. Toot Toot Tootsie is now in public domain, and it's got the millenial whoop for f*ck's sake.

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Jojo's avatar

Isn't much of Classical music primarily written 150-250 years ago?

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Andy Alexis's avatar

Sorry on the delayed response; lots and lots of emails backed up.

That's an excellent point; in fact, almost ALL of the music I listen to is 80 years old; new and old performers, though. I also tend not to listen to any commercial radio as well. My interests are strictly folk music; mostly of the instrumental variety.

However, I like to listen to brand new music sometimes. Not the same old Classic Rock songs that I hear on every commercial, every Target store, every (already noisy) restaurant as background music. This music, the first 10,000 times you hear these songs, is good music, but I am just tired of hearing the same stuff so often. This music is being strip-mined by people who treat it like a thing to be used to get people's attention like flashy ad graphics. This is music I heard on the radio when I was a teenager...a half century ago!

This entire issue is primary a pop/rock/r&b issue. I don't think anyone is going to be giving the heirs of Chick Corea $300 million dollars for his work. [this hasn't happened, right?]

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Jojo's avatar

Doowop forever!

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Jojo's avatar

Real Doowop:

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In the Still of the Night - Fred Parris and The Satins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT3oDMCWpI

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Joshua Clement Broyles's avatar

I respect purer Doowop. I just don't see it as some kind of fixed museum piece. Doowop variously informs many other kinds of music which are greatly enriched by it.

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Jojo's avatar

I'm wondering if anyone will try to meld classic Doowop with Hiphop? That might be interesting.

For anyone interested, the top Doowop stations are http://doowopcafe.org/ and http://doowopradio.com/. They both stream or you can listen through the web.

What's nice about the Cafe is that they mostly have live DJ's, some of whom used to sing themselves and will talk about the music, not just play song after song. They also have a chat app active so people can interact.

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Joshua Clement Broyles's avatar

Beat boxing is similar to Doowop, if you think about it. If Doowop had been developed in Germany, it would probably be indistinguishable from beat boxing.

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