When did music videos get so hilarious?

[Onkel Neal]

So, yeah, I'm old and I don't get new music. I'll proudly don the mantle of "new music is crap", just like the generations before me (but seriously, could it be true this time?).

We've all heard about the Hannah Montanah kid going stripper-bonkers at the VMAs (Disney stars turning wacko, they must have a management plan or something), old news, and not really that shocking.

But then comes a video, this chick is licking a sledgehammer, swinging nekkid on a wrecking ball. Haw haw! Was it supposed to be this funny? Or do they really think there's even a glimmer of sex appeal in this LMAO video?

Seriously, is there anyone here who can explain this to me?

Yeah, that link above mentions the Sinead O'Connor video, that was a pretty solid song and performance. But Miley Cyrus? So funny!

[Admiral Halsey]

Somewhere Billy Ray Cyrus is crying his Achy Breaky Heart out.

[Red October1984]

New music is crap*

That's all there is to it.

*Exceptions exist

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Seriously, is there anyone here who can explain this to me?

The explanation is that there are so many videos and so many average singers out there that the one who wins is the one who is the most outrageoud.

that was a pretty solid song and performance.

Seriously? Average song at best, electronic drum machine, synthesized everything, including running her voice through some kind of processor. Test of time, brother, test of time. Is anyone going to remember this thirty years from now, let alone look back and say "Now that was great music!"?

[Armistead]

All part of a grander marketing plan that started at the awards show. It goes back to "as long as people are talking".

Yep, it scares me that most the music I like is considered classic, but with music I prefer vocal talent, not t&a...

Two years ago I took my son and school friends to a Swift concert, I swear she sounded lie a dying dog, but the kids loved her.

As I've said, great music went out with big hair.

[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The explanation is that there are so many videos and so many average singers out there that the one who wins is the one who is the most outrageoud.


Seriously? Average song at best, electronic drum machine, synthesized everything, including running her voice through some kind of processor. Test of time, brother, test of time. Is anyone going to remember this thirty years from now, let alone look back and say "Now that was great music!"?

Don't you pull your "wise old man" gig on me

I mean, back in your day, The Archies were topping the charts!

At least Miley Cyrus exists!

[Takeda Shingen]

Funny thing about all this; my argument would be that the popular music barometer has read -10 since the first troubadour squawked out the first drinking tune in the tavern. It is all a relative thing. I could easily launch into scathing diatribes about Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Chubby Checker, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Muddy Waters or whatever your vernacular performer(s) of choice are. Would it lessen your love of them? Probably not. Would it frustrate me to no end that the people I am lecturing will not appreciate art as I see fit? Absolutely. And so I have found it best for everybody, including myself, if I just let people like what they want to like and I save my diatribe for the lecture hall.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

Don't you pull your "wise old man" gig on me

I mean, back in your day, The Archies were topping the charts!

At least Miley Cyrus exists!

^

If the younger generation are buying it then the management plan is working....but yes I agree, it looks and sounds crap, at best.

[Tchocky]

Well there's a barrel load of selective recognition going on here.

After all, we forget about all the awful music from years ago.

[HunterICX]

Thanks..now my ears bleed and my eyes puke

HunterICX

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Thanks..now my ears bleed and my eyes puke

Ask Jimbuna for some of that eye bleach he has sitting around.

[joea]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

New music is crap*

That's all there is to it.

*Exceptions exist

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Well there's a barrel load of selective recognition going on here.

After all, we forget about all the awful music from years ago.

Yup, this new music is crap is nonsense. The most popular stuff - a good chunk of it at least - is crap but there are loads of good bands and musicians too. Plus as the cliché goes, "one man's trash is another man's treasure".

This trope is tiresome.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey

Somewhere Billy Ray Cyrus is crying his Achy Breaky Heart out.

Billy is crying all the way to the bank!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

Don't you pull your "wise old man" gig on me

I mean, back in your day, The Archies were topping the charts!

And I hated them too.

At least Miley Cyrus exists!

Are you sure?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

So, yeah, I'm old and I don't get new music. I'll proudly don the mantle of "new music is crap", just like the generations before me (but seriously, could it be true this time?).

We've all heard about the Hannah Montanah kid going stripper-bonkers at the VMAs (Disney stars turning wacko, they must have a management plan or something), old news, and not really that shocking.

But then comes a video, this chick is licking a sledgehammer, swinging nekkid on a wrecking ball. Haw haw! Was it supposed to be this funny? Or do they really think there's even a glimmer of sex appeal in this LMAO video?

Seriously, is there anyone here who can explain this to me?

Yeah, that link above mentions the Sinead O'Connor video, that was a pretty solid song and performance. But Miley Cyrus? So funny!

If Miley continues on this path she will never be taken seriously. If you have no real talent use the shock factor. Won't be long before there is a full spread in Playboy.