Reply #4: I'd like to hear a renaissance for ALL music, actually... [View All]

[Bicoastal]

...I'm not exactly nostalgic for the music for yesteryear, being 26, but I feel like the American musical scene HAS stagnated. Other than some superficial differences in production, the top 40 hits of 2008 really aren't so very different than the top 40 hits of 1998. Compare this to other decades, ('68 and '78, '78 and '88), and you realize we're in kind of a down period.

And although you can make the argument that "pop" will always be lousy, just look at the artists who were in the top ten 20, 30, 40 years ago--The Beatles, The Stones, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen, young Michael Jackson...it's depressing. I always though Hip Hop would revolutionize pop music, but man, that stuff is designed and manufactured by committee these days, and it sounds like it, too.