Top Ten Ways to Improve the Modern Music Industry
People have a terrible stereotype that heavy metal is full-on screaming death metal. I need to get into my family's heads that the music I listen to is not that. Avenged Sevenfold's City Of Evil is a good example of this.
They should also have more foreign bands get distribution to the us if that foreign band wanted to have another country listen to them.
I would say in general, have more talent. It doesn't matter the genre.
I'm in one, so I might be able to help with this.
Exactly! Too many singers and rappers nowadays use autotune. The feel like they need autotune to sound good. Some singers sound worse on autotune.
Autotune can be used in a way that's good, but if it's to cover up an off-key singer like it probably is in many songs, then no.
I'd rather have autotune than someone who can't sing in the slightest. It's not hurting anyone.
We need singers who don't use autotune on radios worldwide.
Not completely. Some teenage pop singers are good for example "Lauren Taylor." She isn't a teenager now but she was when she made music.
I think that rather than getting rid of all teenage pop singers, we should replace them with ones who can actually sing and make quality songs, I like to believe those still exist if we just looked for them and gave them attention.
Without teenage singers there would never have been Michael Jackson.Why should you stop someone from pursuing their goal because of their age? 69 the rapper is not a teenager and he sucks.
They used to be good like Michael jackson and stevie wonder now it's the opposite like Justin beiber and Miley Cyrus
There is Maneskin, an Italian rock band who have been blowing up right now and could be one of the ones to put rock back into the mainstream. They did have to win Eurovision but other than that they aren't that bad and could be one of the rock saviors.
This is a department in which most modern pop/rap music lacks. Halsey has great lyrics though, and I wish more music artists would write lyrics that are just as good. Also, there should be more songs about more important issues, not just 12538216542164 songs about relationships.
This is not easy nowadays. If you can't think of anything meaningful to write a song about, make it instrumental.
This has been seriously lacking in the past decade and a half
Or Immortal Technique and Hopsin.I think they're better but Tupac is still good.-DarkBoi-X
Or Eminem.Both Tupac and Eminem are the greatest rappers but Snoop Dogg,Biggie Smalls,Dr.Dre,DMX and Fort Minor are good too.Stupid mumble rappers like Lil Pump and 21 Savage are ruining rap.At least we still have Kendrick Lamar,Lupe Fiasco and Macklemore who are also great.-DarkBoi-X
Maybe but not necessarily Chris Brown cites him as his main influence and he is the worst big time pop star of the 21st century. Of course there are some pop stars who do make better music influenced by him (Bruno Mars, The Weeknd) but pop would be boring if everyone tried to sound like Michael Jackson.
That might be a good idea. Every pop singer in the 1980s had their own identity. Today's pop singers often have the same identity.
MJ straight up ripped off James Brown's act, and his singing ripped off Jackie Wilson and Frankie Lymon; listen to them.
That may not happen. If this happens, people may cover their ears when listening to the radio because they like horrific music.
Who cares. I'm so sick and tired of songs about partying, drinking, doing drugs, and having no real message.
If you actually look into genres such as rap and pop, they actually still have amazing themes today.
What about rappers like Tupac? Who talk about women's rights and other important things?
That's not easy either. People often can't think of morals or values.
The concept of bad music is subjective. However, I can suggest people come out of the herd mentality and explore their taste in music. I feel most people's tastes in music have been influenced by societal factors and peer pressure; I'm explicitly highlighting commercial music. There may be an angle of acceptance here. They're not their own. The more you step outside your comfort zone and discover new music of different varieties, the more you realize the magnitude of music out there and how your taste is changing over time, and you come to the point where you start gravitating towards a particular style of music only; that's when you can say it's your actual musical taste. The problem is most people are not aware of anything other than what's trending because that is what you see or hear everywhere. They believe more popularity equals more quality.
Most of us live in free countries and I am afraid nobody can ban or eliminate pop, rap or whatever you don't like (there are some items on this list with this message). But if people stop buying crap this crap will disappear. This can happen if people get more music knowledge and information.
I am a metal fan and I am pretty happy with my choice. Metal is a huge and very diverse genre and there is something for everyone. I mean, even if somebody doesn't like fast and heavy riffs and beats, there are great metal ballads that are way better than the overplayed songs on your average radio. Metal is not all-screaming, on the contrary - dare to say that the best singers are currently in metal. And yes, the majority of the metal bands are not satanic.
People really need to stop buying bad music. It is making the music industry brainwash others to like and care about bad music.
Exactly! I don't listen to a whole lot of rock and metal music but many people are scared of rock and metal music. They think it's Satanic and they think whoever listens to any rock and metal music worships the devil.
He's taking care of that all on his own, thankfully.
It should definitely happen.
Both 'N Sync and One Direction are bad, but both of them are basically done at this point.
No, you got it wrong, let Boyz II Men take care of it.
Even if she had help from all the songwriters I know(Wonder, Gaye, Lennon/McCartney, Prince, Jagger/Richards, Dylan, Holly, Perkins, Berry,) and even all of the Classical composers like Beethoven and Mozart, I don't know if it would work out.
Don't bother trying. Even if she had Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, and Holland-Dozier-Holland working for her, it wouldn't help her sound any better.
Again don't bother, they sucked too.
There's still people who make those types of material meaningful, you just have to actually prod around until you find them.
This is not uncommon. People often have nothing to sing about except for sex, drugs, and money.
There IS a way to make these topics meaningful. rappers and pop singers don't know how.
Mike Shinoda is probably the only rapper who DOESN'T rap about that stuff.
Talented rock/metal teenagers are playing great music in their garages while talentless teenagers come to disney and make themselves famous.
Thank you for adding this. One of the worst problems. Take Arianna Grande and (the old) Miley Cyrus, but the new one socks even more.
Not all rap (I'm sure there's still some good, more underrated rap), but if it's mainstream rap, then yes, I hate most mainstream rap!
This shouldn't be a thing. Rap is a thing that inspires people to do better in life, to stop drinking, to love themselves.
I love rap...
And all of rap isn't bad, goddammit. This will NOT improve the industry at all. It'll worsen it, and fans of rap will be enraged.
At least make rap like it was back in the 90's. Where it had real, REAL messages.
Turkish and Indian pop.
I imagine something like The Voice and Americal Idol but for metal singers.
Electronic music was practically perfect without the 1D-style stuff that came relatively recently.
I wanna hear trance, bubblegum dance, jungle, breakbeat, hardbass, and industrial on the radio!
Who gets to decide what "Good" is?
What does that even mean?
You mean no more mainstream dubstep. There is the rare musician that makes it good, but people think that this skill comes to anyone. That's why the most popular dubstep is noise. The stuff that nobody knows about is the good stuff.