This is bad news for prog rock though 😅

@@JaceyMitchell You can chop something like a 24 minute song into 12 2 minutes parts. But the truth is that no sane person should expect to make a lot of money by doing Prog Rock nowadays.

​@@FunkensturmeMaybe the problem is people expecting a lot of money and not the genres 🤔

Sad but true.

AI is about to change all this very soon.

I definitely felt this one. For whatever reason i had kind of stopped listening to music for maybe 7-8 years, but i picked it up again last year. It really was like rediscovering a part of myself that had been missing for a while. I found myself lying in bed at night just listening yet again to the same album that i’d been listening to all week, with every listen discovering something new about it, and mused that i felt like a teenager again.

It’s interesting that you bring this up. You are right to a degree, at least in my own life. When I had records or cd’s, I would “play dj “ and just spend time playing and listening to music. During the tape era, I would make mixed tapes. Nowadays, I shuffle my iTunes and do other stuff (drive, cook, paint). I only just listen right before sleep in bed but it’s KZfaq songs - visual included. I think during my listening periods, I’ll not watch, just listen again. Thank you for bringing this up!

I remember back in the 80s and 90s I would sit with my friends at the stereo and we would listen to the latest cassette or CD we bought, and it was still very much a shared social experience. We connected with each other by just listening to the music together, doing nothing else. I'm not sure kids these days have the attention span for this (unless they were making a reaction video on KZfaq or something 😂).

I think Eric Johnson said this in a Beato interview. Music today is background noise. Which is why beats dominate and you need way less attention span, or none at all. Hopefully the pendulum will swing the other way!😊

Everything -- increasingly -- is on one device, the phone. Everything is competing for time on the same screen. In the 1970's, what we called 'media' came in different forms -- radio, TV, paperbacks, games were physically based (until video games began to hit) -- different media, different devices. Now it's increasingly on just one device, and that affects how people consume their music -- which increasingly is off the same device they use for the other stuff.

Hopefully!!!

Doubt it

No hope of that happening. There isn't going to be any money in music very very soon. People won't pay for it and live music is dying

It’s because they don’t teach it in schools they are coming in and there aren’t as many musicians anymore.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the changes to school music programs since many schools have made them an additional cost or not available at all

Based af, homie

Also, being a good song-writer. Having space in the song, harmony and melody. Not just drums and a synthesised voice - yuk!

Yeah, that's true to an extent. But realistically, musical genres have a 30-40 year lifespan. Rap is past its prime. Pop rises and falls with the times, filling in the gaps between waves. Country rises and falls over time, too.

@@richardmortimer8147 I agree, songwriting is important.

Most of the bands I've ever liked ever made billboard charts , and most of them didn't engage in Billboard analytics while they were writing songs. If they ever come up with a category called "good music" maybe that would change.

Yea, but I'm not able to spend that much time on the search so I listen to jazz.

Interesting to see the influence of Indie and Alternative Rock sounds in a lot of modern pop recordings over the past 2-3 years. Seems like the newest trend of 2024 is elements of country/folk in popular music.

Is indie a "scene" or is it dozens of scenes with the only thing in common being they're not mainstream?

The genre of indie ended up being pretty corporate and was what snobs liked for some reason. Indie pop from 10 years ago was awful and indie really hasn’t shaken off that era. Nowadays, most of those songs just sound the same and there isn’t much to the music. Pop punk and metalcore were the more interesting genres, and frankly still are, even if metalcore is being pushed by labels to be in a race to see who gets on XM first

Such a cliched comment. Been bandied around …… forever, from people that want to sound cool and smug. Here is another one: When the indie singer/band hit it big, they are automatically considered sellouts by these same people that supported them before.

im one of those young guys

I call bs

@@annna6553 Sounds like the least-rewarding lie to create, lol.

@@jacobshirley3457 Cry harder. Guitar based music isn't thriving.

@@annna6553 ?

Why would you care what music other people like?

This is good news in regards to current hip hop.........for those who into vintage hip hop the hope is for a bigger return to that style of music. Hip hop at its peak is a 100% certifiable genre to stay, but after a powerful era from late '80s to about 2008 or so, just a big lack of interest over the last 15 years.

@@lousassol5522 exactly the right question lol

Hip hop died in 2003

great news that the music were forced to listen to in public places might improve a bit

Bo Burnham beat you to it.

I produce my bands music. And omg, I will swear them when they under perform. Do it again, do it again. Do no waste my time coming in unprepared

Hm, November Rain?

@@SarahAndreaRoycesChannel Nah, I can be way more creative than that: December F*cking Snow. (can't forget the profanity)

Anyone who learns piano can master a synth. Only a fool picks up a guitar and plays boring blues at this point.

There's plenty of new young talented bands, exposure is the problem when we get all these dinosaur old af bands headlining most festivals still, and the new talent relegated to early hours where way less people get a chance to see them, and mainstream media as we all know isn't exactly Rock friendly, the heavier the less, so in that way we're screwed.

Saying the pendulum is swinging back towards Rock music is like saying the pendulum is swinging back towards Classical or Jazz or Swing. It's never going to happen. This is wishful thinking. Rock music has been on the decline for 40 years, sure it's had its ups and downs, but it's dead for good this time. I don't think it's ever coming back. It's going to stick around the same way that Classical and Jazz do, but it's never going to be big again. The entire reason that Rock ever got big in the first place was that it had a low barrier of entry. Anybody could pick up a guitar and strum a few chords and become a rock star. But learning to play the guitar is still comparatively hard, nowadays we have way easier options. You can just mumble something into a microphone or compose something on a computer. There is no niche for Rock anymore. The music industry has always been a bit of a ponzi scheme: It seems like everbody who's really into Rap is dreaming of becoming a rapper, and everybody who used to be into Rock was dreaming of becoming a Rock star. Kids buy merchandise from their idols to become just like them. But Rap has become what Rock always wanted to be: A perfect way to sell expensive sneakers to kids. Rap is way better at this than Rock ever was because the barrier to entry is much lower, so it's much easier to suspend disbelief. Lemmy from Motörhead talked about how he started playing guitar to impress the girls at his school. I'm sure it was like that for many musicians, if not most. Nowadays, if you brought a guitar to school, girls would probably laugh at you for being a dork. Times have changed. Rock music isn't coming back unless we have a nuclear war, society disintegrates and we have to start over from scratch. It was a period in time.

​@@thereturnofthemac Just say you can't read a paragraph. He has a point.

I think having artists like Olivia Rodrigo going more rock is helpful in pushing rock forward to younger ears

people said FM alternative rock radio don't work in my area. after almost 2 years, no alt rock radio.the station went back as alt rock and rating went up 4X. cannot understand the phenomenon

I feel like Tik Tok is actually helping expose rock songs from the 60s-2010s to Gen Z and even Gen Alpha.

What rock comeback? What bands? Exclude the songs dug up by some current series online.

@@rockingbirdey I've been hearing older music on short form videos lately so this is kind of true

Other than the cowboy hats they're all wearing, that stuff is not country. Country died when the word "new" got put in front of it and it's long gone. Bad 80's rock music with cowboy hats is what we have now.

I mean it never really left for me. There’s so many great bands at the moment

I think you just gave "better" a good definition for the context of music. And "worse" is a lost opportunity because the music fails to do that. The music at a given time may or may not be meeting a generation's needs well. It may not if music trends are being driven by forces divorced from what people are looking for. It may if trends are very responsive to what each generations needs. The reality is probably somewhere in the middle.

Could be that music is subjective. Better for some, worse for some. Really depends on who is listening!

If it doesn't have soul for our souls to feel, then...

@@mikekenney2680 I think you’re on to something. My nephew and his friends, born 2005-ish, listen primarily to music from that time period or earlier. The Strokes, Weezer, Death Cab, The Smiths, nirvana, brand new, arcade fire, OutKast, gorillaz, mgmt, blink 182, etc… and it’s not even because we millennials and gen xers showed it to them, some of it yes, but they found a lot of it on their own. He discovered The Strokes from playing GTA 5 lol. Now it’s his favorite band. Perhaps modern music, which I know they hear heavy doses of, is not serving their needs.

The only way music could be "better" or "worse" is if the lyrical content is moral or not. The more moral a song is and the more it promotes what is truly good, the more music gets better. Same thing with music that is immoral. Music is a pathway to the brain. It can sub-consciously make us think certain ways. Other than that, there isn't anything objectively wrong with any music. We all start with a subjective bass-line that music has to meet for us too like it.

I’m in a horn rock band that plays Chicago and blood, sweat and tears. So refreshing to read this. Thank you.

I play trumpet in a horn band too. A lot original stuff and Stevie wonder and funk. It’s fun because I went years without playing in a band. I feel people love the raw sound of the horns. You can’t really fake them.

@@Guitarzan8 Right on. Horns add that different dimension of sound. Much fuller.

@@polskaman20001 I am getting back into recording after a few years. While I have a couple of Korg keys its not the same as real horns. I may have to go to Fiver and hire. I hired a drummer from Italy for one of my songs a few years back and she did a great job.

Soul Vaccination!!

Nah, you're right. Actually, a lot of modern country that isn't hick hop sounds like 80s hard rock

*Indeed, I miss pre-2000's country, when one could still dance two-step to it .. altho that's likely the reason for modern country's growth, as it's basically crossover .. that is, essentially country-rock instrumentals, but with the twangy vocals still intact 🫤

*Indeed, I miss pre-2000's country, when one could still dance two-step to it .. altho that's likely the reason for modern country's growth, as it's basically crossover .. that is, essentially country-rock instrumentals, but with the twangy vocals still intact 🫤

A lotta influence from Fleetwood Mac and Lynyrd Skynyrd in some country music.

Greg Allman said, it’s the singer and not the song that makes it a country or rock song.

The theme to BJ and The Bear was the last great, American theme song.

Since the Super Bowl, I've been digging into that INXS song, Never Tear Us Apart. It's beautiful. Starts with strings (subtly messing with the number of beats per measure); drops in that electric guitar figure on beats 4,5,6 after a 9-beat rest; and there's also a huge sax solo.

You don't have to miss them, just buy cds or lps from that era of music, or download or stream music from that era. Nowadays who needs to be musically captive to contemporary music?

Strangely enough, I am also 65 love the music of the 60s-70s, blues and R&B....I play guitar as well... :p

Agreed! Also a pro here...

That’s awesome!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😆😆😆

Probably at CHOM FM

@@mikebrunoguitarist5062 actually Rich Terfry on CBC.

Just bot a sax. Did know c scales and part of amazing grace

sax blows.glad they arent doing it like they used to.

Any Glenn Frey song.

I'll release an album next Friday that has a cool sax solo on a track!! Keep an eye on it

There was a resurgence a few years back. Around the time of Thrift Shop and Fitz and the Tantrums. But I think it was a case of too much all at once cause the trend died within a year’s span

Put the link to listen to them especially pop for me

Rock on 🤘🏻

this is awesome, good for you

Love this! Never stop! Music isn't age, music belongs to human beings. Have an awesome time making your music and let me know if you want someone to add a bit of noise to it.

Nice, please rock on

Similarly, Hendrix surprised me; Manic Depression is just 3 and a half minutes; Little Wing is 2 and a half. Amazing

One chord though, lol

first techno beat ever played. Chemical Brothers use it in Setting Sun, which is an awesome song.

@luke5100 There's not a single song on 'Revolver' that goes for three minutes. 'Eleanor Rigby' is only 2m 07secs.

@lters63 Yup, the Beatles were the first pop musicians to use sampling. They were influenced by 20th century composers like Stockhausen, who made most of his music by chopping up magnetic tape loops. The Beatles used that technique by recording the instrumental parts, as well as found sounds, onto tape and then cutting/splicing the pieces together. Decades after that, other people started using turntables to sample pre-recorded sounds and eventually digital samplers, but the Beatles did it all first.

Well pointed.

i don't know, Yes & ELP had some very long songs on vinyl. :)

@@alanhiebert3548 , Beatles' Please, Please Me vinyl has fourteen tracks; Yes' Close To The Edge vinyl has just three tracks.

Makes me wonder if 60 years from now kids will be rediscovering shorts the way ppl are with vinyl today

wtf what about pink floyd and all the other prog rock bands in the 70's lol yall are crazy in these commets

Band name?

Zigga ​@@Puremocionalprig prig yeah 😢

Same here. I make music, and the videos for them on my channel. I just never bought the rap thing.

boring

@@MikkelGrumBovin u must make ENJOYABLE music 🥴

I was pretty checked out of hip hop for a while, then someone showed me Kendrick. Maybe you're right, needs to come back down to earth.

Hip hop hasn't had any real interesting innovations in a long time. Get a couple new breakthrough artists doing something interesting and new with it and it'll recover just fine (I kinda thought Ren might do that, but he hasn't).

I'd be interested in knowing when you got into hip hop. Did you grow up with it? What was the competition? I was interested in it early. I liked Public Enemy for example. And LL Kool J. Occasionally I'd hear something latter like Slim Shady that caught my ear. I felt that Nirvana and Eminem both had lines that caught the spirit of the age like Don't believe the hype. But the time I was catching up on other kinds of music. Blues, folk, world, jazz. I had a black friend who ran the jazz department in a CD store. He couldn't get his nephews to listen to the jazz classics let alone stuff we were exploring. Eventually I just lost interest in hip hop. Too many other genres, not enough time or money. So while I believe there's merit to your argument that thinning out the space might help the music, it's not always clear it works out that way.

@@mikem668 i grew up on pac and biggie, i was in atlanta as a child around 1998-2002 and tons of atlanta rap made it my way. outkast/run the jewels/luda were have become my favorites over time. these days along with the ATLiens, i love kendrick, danny brown, still like wayne, MF doom, old kanye. i also like basically anything el-p has ever touched so basically anything with noise based production im into.

on the other hand i think experimental hip hop is peaking these last years

😂

the beato waves deserve more research

How much of the country/pop/guitar ascendance is attributed to the "Fast Car Effect"?

I would not at all be surprised if this is somewhat true. Rick has achieved an amazing reach in the music world.

lol

Great comment, yes. A lot of people are getting tired of the trends we've had the last 10 years or so and are going back to more classic sounds

I think that’s why while we see changes and fads, the foundational root genres don’t go away. We’ll always have some iteration of Jazz, Metal, Country, Folk, etc.

If Latin is so far down on the list how come I hear that dunca dunca beat all the time

And trends are cyclical, it’s really noticeable in guitar based music over the decades.

@@Durkhead Depends where ya live don't it?

Yes, longer songs tended to come in at the same time that CDs became the main music format. An album wasn't restricted to being 40 minutes long so artists could stretch out a bit. And they did.

I can't believe in the age of video that music videos haven't made a major comeback. I actually prefer the videos cuz you get to watch the band's chemistry. Go watch U Got The Look by Prince and tell me the song however great competes with the video. Same for Thriller and many songs..the video gave us the physical space/mental background that made the songs work even better..more effective..more dramatic. One by Metallica..come on..videos could be SO good. Rooster is another.

Shorter songs are because a lot of the money comes from ad dollars. Once a song starts you already have the advertisers money. You want the consumer to press play as often as possible so the video gains more on advertising. Long songs means less plays.

Well. that was for 'serious' listening and viewing. But for dancing... early Pink Floyd before Dark Side was great, as evidenced in Nick Mason's touringband that just plays pre-DS Floyd material

@@dubfitness595 No. shorter songs far better for dancing with other people

Similar to the length of a given album. Capacity of a vinyl or tape or disc was a physical limitation.

a few verses and choruses plus a bridge at a typical tempo also works out to about that much, especially if you're doing a short first verse

@@matturner6890 Tell that to Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly, Tangrine dream, Yes, The WHO, King crimson and a few thousand others! You are speaking of a single "Radio Play" standard and boring, overused song structure record companies tried to make all of their artists conform to.

​@@jeffh8803early cutters absolutely used a weight/pulley system to move the cutter. But yeah, we really became accustomed to the 3:30 thing for songs. The size of the platter at a given speed certainly was a factor too.

@@jeffh8803 In 78 rpm days it was a wind up device both for recording and playing.

Tons! some of the best music ever has been released in the last 20 yrs imo, you’re not gna hear any of it via radio, Grammy/tv performances or what’s popular in the Nashville music scene though.

I agree with that for sure. I don’t think he listens to us when we say that though.

Absolutely...some of the coolest music cannot be heard by trendy radio

Left Of The Dial

Most of the best music is likely outside of Billboard. Lol.

In the 80's too ,many songs were longer than the radio format, and sometime they were cut , just like that, eliminating an instrumental part, etc...

I was a radio DJ back then. Many stations did play radio edits which brought the longer songs down into a manageable 4:20-4:40 range (or so), but many stations, mine included, also played the longer versions as well.

....and today the radio stations make their own edits. 🤬

ha, the opposite of the 80s where you had the extended remix

@@jean-louispech4921The worse example of this is the song 🎶 “Fashion” by David Bowie. The song 🎵 was originally 4:53 on Scary 😧 Monsters 👹 and Super Creeps. However, when they shot the video for MTV, they completely butchered it to 3:26. I understand doing that to a song 🎶 that’s over 6 or minutes long. But doing that that’s just under 5 minutes is ridiculous.

And non-diatonic chords...

PLEASE 🙏🏽

Nailed it

Best comment here

Let's be more specific: non-chromatic modulations

IDK previous to the 90's & CD's there were plenty of long songs over 4 & 7 minutes for mass selling published vinyl albums even though vinyl has always had a somewhat fixed sound duration length in its commercial life.

Nothing to do with it. Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis and other prog rock artists were putting out 8+ minute songs decades before the 90s and on vinyl.

Well, there was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Thick As A Brick, many of the Grateful Dead songs (well, live...)

Apparently, the Bat Out of Hell album by Meatloaf was slightly sped up so it could fit on the limited space of vinyl records.

Yeah, I dont think Kurt was thinking of how much he can put on a CD when he was writing those songs

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Art reflects the society it was made in.

You're absolutely correct on the vinyl limitation there. With CD you had more headroom, more space for lower frequencies and thus more detailed / better quality and longer audio. And then the loudness wars began...

Also don't forget about the radio. They wanted 2-3 minute songs so they could play those songs on loop over and over. That's why they were pissed when The Doors were wanting to put a 7 minute song like "Light My Fire" on the radio so they started doing the radio edit singles.

@@bartvaes4126 I think you also had a lot more flexibility with song lengths as it was 74 total... you didn't have to worry as much about which songs went on the A side and the B side. There's a lot of really good albums that came out in the 90s that just flowed so well because you didn't have the flip.

Yep. Medium and radio. Once those changed the industry immediately took advantage. What's better than your star artist being on the radio for 2:30 every hour? Being on for 4:00 every hour. heh

This is the obvious answer. Sure, people's attention spans might be shorter, but for the artists making the tracks, it's a simple formula. If your fans are only going to listen to forty minutes of your album, you're way better off releasing twenty 2-minute tracks than eight 5-minute tracks.

Short and sweet songs also promote repeat listens, which the algorithms seem to like. Also, it seems to me like the new generation of producers have no patience to even put together a long drawn out section. If they come up with a solo instrumental, it's a separate song. I think it's less artists catering to trends but more of a trend of artist preferences.

True!

Bohemian rhapsody is a long song for people who only listen to sub 3:00 minute songs. It’s exactly 6:00 minutes long. Anyone who listens to music from the 70’s-90’s is probably used to music of that length. Truly long songs is stuff that’s like 8 minutes and beyond.

A standard pop song verse is 8 bars, pre chorus 4, chorus 8. That doesn't dwell long at all. And all of those sections have different melodies and rhythms which can also be considered " 3 songs in 1 " Everyone writing a song like Bohemian rhapsody is not the way to go.

please for the love of god no more Bohemian Rhapsody, that song needs to go back to where it was in the 80s

Great analysis. What a fabulous song. If that song was released today, most likely, Queen would be asked to break the song into singles by the record label.

ROCK REVIVAL

I love rock but haven't ever been able to gain an acquired sense for country. I don't hate it but I very rarely hear country songs that I can't easily walk away from.

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The average lifespan of a musical genre is 30-40 years. Rap is past its expiration date. It's not complicated.

@@dubfitness595 Same here, It's all so predictable and has no "edge" giving the genre an overall innocent vibe, which is boring. Don't hate on me, just my 2 cents.

I'm very happy to be carrying my sax to jams! What do I get asked for most often? Careless whisper, and Baker street solos, LOL!

I'm a drummer, I prefer when the venue has a kit there already :)

Nice!

True. Video games were around

Videogames werent inifinite then lol. I remember when i beat all my nintendo games over a dozen times and got tired of them, that was it! No updates. Now theres infinite free-to-play games to access seemlessly. Its totally different. Tldr; i wouldnt even be a musician today if it werent for that fact. I remember the day i tought myself piano was because i was sick of all my movies and games and there was simply nothing else to do! Boredom can have magical effects. And society today is boredom deprived

They put Hey Jude on a 45. Short songs are what program directors wanted. Some artists put fake times on the labels of longer songs.

The hardware grew in capability then the human shrunk in capability 😂

Lucky 😄I have never been able to appreciate mainstream country music. The videos Grady Smith has done about why it's awful and how they all have the same lyrics explains it for me. Also, I'm not from the US either. I do hear it blaring from a pickup truck or while I'm grocery shopping now and then, which is why I always have a pair of headphones 😄 That said, I friggin' love Johnny Cash.

Same but I notice my millennial friends all have a penchant for Country. I'm a 45 yo Gen X and we used to laugh at it. I still mostly do, especially the basslines. It's just not actual music. There's a great video of Steve Bailey telling young bassists how to make a fortune with only 2 notes: "play Country". He's serious.

I'm born in the USA and grew up listening to Country/Western. Back in the day there was Western music which was more cowboy, outlaw music. I'm not a fan of "Brocountry" but there are some really good bands from Texas and even Canada.

It's amazing how narrow minded people are when it comes to music. @@GeraldSmallbear

Most likely you don’t know how wide and diverse the country genre really is and how many artists on the radio are country artists. Doesn’t matter if oldies or contemporary music.

100%. I used to buy a CD every few months or rent a few from the library and in between those purchases, I had completely absorbed the music on those discs. I knew the musicians that were called in to play 'additional' parts. I miss those days so much I've begun that process of organising my vinyl, cassette and CD library again, not for nostalgia alone but to make it a practice of being present with music listening and enjoyment, and not aimless content surfing.

Restrictions, to some extent, are necessary in regards to the most meaningful experiences (there may be an exception or two): being able to access countless "records" online is insipid in comparison with having the physical copy of an album you consider special and which you invested valuable money on... Photographic films used to be kept for peculiar events and implied a well defined number of limited pictures that could be taken; now, off course, someone with a smartphone can hold the capture "button" until getting tens or hundreds of pictures instantly, with absolute carelessness and "infinite" space in storage, etcetera.

This is true. what we pay or sacrifice for is important to us. Free things could be 10x better but won't be appreciated as much. Good point

Amen.

you can still listen to music that way

yay, awesome. Was wondering about classical music now a days and where it stands 👍 @Rick Beato , what is the chart saying....

takes 15 min for our brains to get into flow state, makes sense why no one can actually focus on anything and why most things end up mediocre.

How much profanity was in those Mozart symphonies?

Point taken, but symphonies were getting bigger and longer way before Mahler: LvB's Eroica and 9th, Berlioz, Bruckner, Brahms, et al. If the music is good and you've trained yourself to relax and focus, an hour-plus piece of music should not pose a challenge to your concentration. Unfortunately, as mentioned in the video, our society trains people to minimize their attention spans. If a four-minute rock song is too much for people these days, there's no way they're going to appreciate the vast bulk of classical music.

Depends whether the French horn player drops his instrument on his neighbor's foot :) (Which reminds me of the true story of Jean-Baptiste Lully dying of gangrene after accidentally stabbing himself in the foot with his conductor's baton.)@@davidbell3857

60's and 70's music is special to me as well; best musicians and real instruments as well as thought provoking lyrics.

It's the hypnotic effect...like a great hook in a song.

Every new genre gets 30-40 years of dominance, then it fades into the background with the other genres that had their 30-40 years already. Rock will never dominate again but it won't go away. Pop and country will rise and fall as they always do.

Tic Tok repetitive beats that sound exactly same ... That's why you'll start to see rappers like playboy carti and yeet go the rock route.

​@@thepagecollectiveNever say never

@@PetritAugustini Unlikely anyway. I mean, if you look at that chart, ain't no jazz there.

Hell no

@@raheemabdoul8480 Hahaha ... yes!

But Rock Music needs YOUNG PEOPLE. Let Metallica and Rolling Stones retire in peace

@@raheemabdoul8480hip hop is like 90’s hair metal now. Cheesy and cringe.

@@abelgonzales3695 Not all heavy metal is good but there is a lot of excellent metal. The Rolling Stones and Metallica have a great importance in denouncing things that are wrong in this society we live in, just listen to them and their lyrics in addition to good music.

All You Need Is Love was their first single to approach 4 minutes (3:57) then came Lady Madonna at 2:17 and Hey Jude at a whopping 7:11.

Hey Jude was considered a risky bet for a single since it was sooooo long at 7min.

@@Kaddywompous Exactly. Even though MacArthur Park by Richard Harris (7:21) was released 4 months before Hey Jude.

You could only fit about 22 minutes a side on a vinyl LP back then without really messing up the audio quality, that's like 7-8 tracks a side or ~15 typical pop singles per album.

@@louiebee6745 Radio DJs loved those songs because they could safely take a toilet break. DJs loved 'American Pie' when it came out as well.

1780:s, 1880:s or ....

​@@Onionbaron It's pretty obvious this dude is from the future and is speaking of the 2380s-2390s, the greatest two decades in popular music following the catastrophic collapse of human society resulting from the Great AI Redistribution event. Get your sh*t together, man, this is basic 2670s 4th grade subject. Now let me just disconnect my TimeX Timeliner Quantum Chatter Model 6, Elon doesn't like it when peoBlrghughugharmfkhdkhdkhdbekbEkBeK

Billie Jean, Blue Monday.

Nowadays songs have 30 second intro which is the only interesting part. After that the song really starts and it's horrible. This is only to get the listener to listen until it counts as play in Spotify, which generates money.

Yep. AND solos. AND bridges. There’s zero both of those in pop. A little in country

There are always only two kinds of people in the world. In this case there are those who will create the music they are compelled to make to express themselves and there are those who will create the music they think will sell well by following a formula. What defines success in creating music? Expressing what you wanted to convey, or selling a lot of whatever it is you created?

We were playing video games way before the 90's, in fact. But there was no Internet in the early 90's, no smart phones, no social media... People generally had longer attention spans and didn't have a whole technoculture built to undermine it and feed us constant advertising.

@@SO-ym3zs I know, but he was talking explicitly about the 90s ;)

I know, I just meant that not only were we playing them then, but well before then, too. They were an established thing by then.@@saberreiter8569

AI (video) killed the (Radio Star) Media ⭐

This!

I usually agree. Still, argumentation is sometimes a bit cheap. Have seen other musicians have more elaborate answers for this, as „video games bad“.

Modern country is hip hop with rock progressions with a vocal twang!

and Hey Jude is one of their longest and perhaps most boring song. The excelled under 3 minutes

I do appreciate the last group chorus of Hey Jude, I skip to it, if I’m able. One day driving in the car to work, I cranked the ending/last chorus, and for the first time after many many times hearing Hey Jude, I noticed how perfect THE GROOVE/TEMPO IS !?!!?! I thought, wow what a great groove they decided upon.

I totally agree about their shorter concise songs are the best

What about Jazz?

@@Jazzmentl I'm curious about what you're thinking regarding Jazz. Are you a writer? Composer?

Yeah especially Olivia Rodrigo. She comes to mind. You also have Country Pop and Country Rock too.

Thank you, Jared! What you saw in the video is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what the ChartCipher platform covers. We also look at timbre, vocal range, chord repetition, rhymes, lyrical moods, and a whole lot more to provide a comprehensive view of how the music landscape is evolving.

The sagging pants trend proliferated in 1989. In 2024, people are still doing it. When Hip Hop descends to its deserved level of popularity, maybe that ridiculous fashion trend will follow.

@@altratronic That's inaccurate for the most part, the 90s were the peak of that fashion era. For more than 10 years pants have been more fitted and shorts have gone up to lengths that you would have gotten hate-crimed for wearing then.

I've felt this way too. I'm actually more surprised people didn't get bored of hip hop and rap faster. Especially the very basic 808 type stuff.

As a rock fan, i do enjoy the hiphop songs of the 80s and 90s, and I also feel the spirit of hiphop died when the MCs died off. Back when rappers wrote songs to uplift their community, it meant something to them, but nowadays, nobody cares. What we have is rappers, not MCs

Rap metal crossover was fun while it lasted (Body Count, Anthrax & Public Enemy, Judgement Night soundtrack, culminating in Rage Against The Machine). The problem with contemporary music isn't that there is not much new, that's just a symptom, the problem is that it has grown conservative. No real new stuff for years, tempo going down, less profanity, and last but not least even less political protest with the decline of hip hop. It's basically everything a parent wants a well adjusted kid to listen to and be cool with.

My 8th grade graduation gifts were a guitar and the 'Red album' 1987. changed my life!!!

Jimmy Webb's "MacArthur Park" was I believe 7:11 only eclipse by "Hey Jude" I think 7:22....but good points, over in my neck of the woods, they always cut back "Won't get Fooled Again"..which made me vomit cause that song is MADE for the full length effect.

Songs are like movies. If they're really good, you don't notice the length of it. I would never have guessed "Plush" was 5:18! 😮

As a kid listening to 77WABC in the late 60s-early 70s I don't EVER recall hearing those songs in their full-length glory. That's why I switched over to WNEW-FM and WPLJ. I'm not sure what WABC you were listening to.

@@Paul-yw8bx Excellent point! As an example I'd compare Stairway To Heaven to The Godfather in that regard. Both I've listened to or seen too many times to mention (and came out 4 months apart from each other) but each gives you that exact WOW feeling.

Yes . I think tunes like this were epic visions of the artists . Don't think that's going to happen in this spotify internet world of today . But everything comes full circle eventually