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Don't get me wrong, I love some music today too. I'm a huge fan of Taylor Swift, and I won't lie and say I don't like some of Justin Beiber's stuff. Hey, he's talented alright!
I also love music by Matchbox Twenty and Rob Thomas.
So, my point in making this discussion is to ask what type of music you all listen to, and your opinion on where music is today. And I'm talking all types of music. What are some of your favorite bands and singers, some of your favorite songs?
The other day my friend put her ear buds in my ear and I was greeted with the word "shots" being said over and over again. I can see how it can be a good dance song, but I looked at her funny and asked what had ever happened to Bon Jovi and Buddy Holly. Because in my opinion, it's hard to listen to a song that's pretty much only made up of the word "shots".
But that's just me. Anyone want to talk about it?
~Anna Noel
I, unlike you, find Justin Bieber untollerable. Along with many others. Especially those who have come out of disney's shadow and become Pop stars.
Real music, music that meant something can often be traced to the early, and I mean early, years of this centuary and before that.
Mr. Cash and Mr. Jules have sung two of the most iconic songs in recent decades. ( I am refering to Cash' cover of Hurt and Jules' song Mad World )
I want more songs like this. Adele in my opinion tried to go down this everlasting route and, in the eyes of many she done so successfully, but I feel that she failed and instead of becoming iconic, it feels to me as if she has fallen into a depressive need my boyfriend back kind of genre.
I do of course love many other songs and bands, but I think I should end my rant before I go to far.
So to sum up.
Cash and Jules = Great
Adele and Bieber = Bad.
=)
Marilyn Manson's song Posthuman and cover of Working Class Hero are amazing!
Guns 'n' Roses and The Stone Roses are other faves of mine! I also love Nirvana, Linkin Park and Kiss.
My favorite genre of music, I'd have to say, is the 50s stuff. The Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, etc.), The Platters, The Temptations, Patsy Cline, The Drifters...I could go on forever. There are a ton that I'm just in love with, but it's a long list.
A very close second is the Woodstock-type rock-n-roll. Sixties and Seventies.
The Beatles are my all-time favorite band, hands down, no doubt about. I have tons of Beatles memorabilia and I've been to a Paul McCartney concert (an experience I count as one of the best of my life).
I also listen to classical occasionally, but I DO listen to some of today's music. I enjoy Adele, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Eminem, etc.
So yeah, my musical preferences are very...varied. Haha. :)
I just believe that everyone has different preferences, and no one genre or band "sucks". :)
I listen to a really wide range of music, I love Guns n Roses, Queen, Mumford and Sons, Avenged Sevenfold, Christina Perri, Johnny Cash, Evanescence and I ADORE Nirvana.
Coldplay is my guilty pleasure :/ I'm kinda ashamed to admit it but, yeah I really like them :)
I completely forgot about them.
Then there's steampunk :P The Cog Is Dead, Abney Park, The Clockwork Quartet are among the steampunk I like. Oh, I do love the Victorian era. :)
I generally don't like popular music (as you can tell) but I won't deny that some of them aren't talented. Adele, Ed Sheeran and Justin Beiber are all very talented, I just don't like JB's songs.
I have found myself reaching back to embrace my inner headbanger from the 80's. Lately I'm lurking around iTunes downloading AC/DC, Metallica, KISS, and curiously wishing I could re-grow my mullet and play my electric bass in a retro band.
And oddly, I'm a trained singer with a music degree so by contrast I sing a lot of musical theater, opera, and good ol' Sinatra.
I love Queen, the Beatles, Bon Jovi, Journey... I could go on. But you don't need to rant on all of the music here today. I admit, a bunch of that Taylor Gang crap and Young Money don't really make me happy. I mean, seriously. Taylor Gang's "Young, Wild, and Free" just makes me think "Oh, so you smoke weed, get drunk, and decide to sing about it all in a song? Oh, but you're having fun! So I guess I won't call the cops on you as long as you're having a jolly good time ruining your life!"
As for Justin Bieber, he falls under the category of I-Listen-To-Him-When-I'm-Feeling-Really-Sappy-Music. Seriously. But I guess he must have a lot of bravery to go out on stage and sing without a bullet-proof vest, so I respect him.
You might like the Fray. I do. I also listen to Civil Twilight and a whole lot of Switchfoot, as they are my favorite band. I also listen to some Paramore, but not much, as well as blink 182 and Coldplay. I lovelovelove music. So much fun. So many things inside of it to change your emotions.
I'm a hipster. What can I say?
peace out :-D
music is my world
I'm not a huge Eminem fan, but I LOVE Will Smith's music.
Before Valens got on the plance, he had told Cash that he 'hopes his trailor freezes up' and then Cash told Valens 'I hope your plane crashes', and that kinda haunted Cash until he died... sad :(