So music really HAS gotten shittier since I was in high school.
But seriously, using the "Billboard Hot 100" is pretty unscientific, that list says more about mass media than it does about musical styles. For example in the early 90s there was a lot of independent radio stations fueling that boom that were gobbled up a few years later. MTV was also huge and was getting pretty weird with 120 Minutes and Yo MTV Raps. The music being produced hadn't necessarily changed but more people were suddenly hearing it.
And now because of how schizophrenic everything is, the Hot 100 is a list of names most people have heard of but nobody actually listens to: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 Okay maybe not NOBODY, but since radio airplay is a key consideration that list has all kinds of problems.
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So music really HAS gotten shittier since I was in high school.
But seriously, using the "Billboard Hot 100" is pretty unscientific, that list says more about mass media than it does about musical styles. For example in the early 90s there was a lot of independent radio stations fueling that boom that were gobbled up a few years later. MTV was also huge and was getting pretty weird with 120 Minutes and Yo MTV Raps. The music being produced hadn't necessarily changed but more people were suddenly hearing it.
And now because of how schizophrenic everything is, the Hot 100 is a list of names most people have heard of but nobody actually listens to: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 Okay maybe not NOBODY, but since radio airplay is a key consideration that list has all kinds of problems.