Music.

Originally Posted by Lord Jaroh

Most music coming out nowadays is crap and requires no real talent. I'm a fan of 80's and older metal primarily, where it required a gift to actually play the guitar well and make music sound good. Today it's all generic "mass-marketed" music designed to appeal to as many people as possible without actually meaning anything or being original (see: Linkin Park). That's not to say that the music overall "sounds bad", it just means that it's generic, like the Hollywood Blockbuster movie that comes out every summer. It's simply a "feel-good" movie with nothing meaningful behind it.

The problem is that the "good" new music that comes out is very few and far between. I'm sure that in the future, music will break out and become good again, but untill the RIAA is abolished or at least reduced in power, "their" music will continue to dominate the mass market, and overall ruin what should be driven by artists, not money.

The problem is not that there is no good new music. The problem is people like you who complain that there is no good new music while having no knowledge of anything but the current Top40. While I agree on the shittiness of Linkin Park, there are literally thousands of current bands and musicians who do not suck, and are in fact quite good. You just have to look a bit.

Secondly, I don't know what alternate history you're from, but to suggest that the nature of the music industry has only recently shifted to mass-marketed crap is ludicrous. Especially as a fan of eighties metal. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, is more generic than hair-metal. I am of course, assuming you meant 80's hair-metal, and not thrash or black metal. If this is the case, insert rant about genericness of disco.

How ya doing, buddy?