Each decade in music history is known as an era. For example, the music of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, etc. I don't give these eras any specific names. Each of them has its own distinguishable characteristics. When you listen to music from any era, you can tell which era it belongs to. Of course, I meant it in general. Each of these eras had distinctive features that were not repeated in subsequent generations, and each generation pursued almost its own desired characteristics. I repeat, this is a general statement, and there are many cases where the music of the next period has used the characteristics of the previous periods. Each period is usually referred to as a golden age. A golden age means that specific musical characteristics reached their peak and flourished during that period. Many productions in each golden era used common features, and producers and musicians tried to use those features as much as possible in their music.

1. If you were to look at music from this perspective, what would you call the era we're in? we are in the golden age of ... ?
2. What common and non-common features does this era have in its productions that many people try to incorporate into their music?
3. What do you think the next era will be called?

 

Anti Jazz

 

Music is just has become another piece of "content".

Since its becoming more about promoting the artist these days Im gonna call this era the "content era"

Any younger (under 20) musician i talk to frames music as just another piece of content in their overall brand. It might be the main piece but its definitely just a piece of the puzzle for them.

 

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AI

 

BS.

 

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FOSTER

 

We are in the golden age of VSTs - that's for certain. There are lots of excellent plugins for every possible job, many of them even free. They sound great, they have great capabilties, and today's CPUs deal with them with no problems.

As of today's music... no gold, even no silver, only lots of bronze. Or rather something of bronze colour, but much softer and very stinky.

 

....turds polished to perfection.

 

All the snark is describing the same thing that has existed in Pop music as we recognize it for nearly 100 years. Could spend all day listing off shitty commercial bands for each decade going back at least until the 60's. It's never been about 'the music' in pop. Music as a portfolio piece isn't new. That there are also musicians/bands who are in it for the music as arts that have also become wildly popular is just incidental.

CD Killed the 80's. ADAT and DAT killed the 90s. Autotune killed the Oughts (that one might be true...). Every decade gets its killer!


You have always had to, mostly, find the good stuff yourself. How many Elvis songs do you think his 50's fanbase knew were covers or iterations from players going 30 years back? Granted, things were still much more centralized just 15-20 years ago even, but on the flipside today I can search "black metal barbie worship" and get relevant musical results. If you can't find 10 times the number of talented bands in any particular genre over what you could 20 years ago then maybe you're just a shitty listener

The rockstar might be dead, but the peoples musik lives commrardes!

 

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the notes

 

the Pandemic era

 

self-publishing ability

 

Yes, I still do find interesting music for myself today, but not in the mainstream - that is the problem. So there is still enough new music to listen - but WE ARE NOT IN A GOLDEN AGE anymore. And the OP was asking about the *golden* age.

Until circa 2000 music was a sacral thing, for a couple of reasons:
1. In most cases you had to be somewhat musically talented and to be a good performer in order to find any listeners.
2. You had to be determined to learn those skills and to fund your instruments (which were very pricey back then).
3. People had to pay for the discs or tapes, so they were thinking of music as of something that has VALUE.

What do we have today?
1. Many commercial so-called "hits" are created by people who really don't play *any* instruments and only use prefabricated blocks, while thinking of themselves as of "creators". I've seen too many blokes on YT, who were struggling to enter even a simplest kick-snare rhythm into their MPCs, but they were always calling themselves "producers".
Already 20 years ago my fellow studio engineers were complaining about the level of perfomance of vocalists they were recording - as those vocalists started demanding to fix everything by auto-tune and heavy editing. Not to mention rappers - many of them (including those who gained much popularity) don't have *any* musical skills beyond being able to roughly fit the words to the beat.
2. 25 and more years later, making music was a challenge. An intellectual challenge. You had to *think* to overcome obstacles (remember samplers with 2MB or even less RAM?). Today everything is easy. Too easy - so there is a flood of low level "productions" made by people who are not required to think or master anything. I can remember mid 90s, whene there were thousands of shitty EPs with endless remixes, just to release more minutes of music. But if I compare those crap remixes to today's mainstream music, they were maybe not gold, but at least silver.
3. A whole generation was already born and raised in the era of music available for free (first from Napster, then from other P2P, then from YouTube, Spotify etc.). Those people think of music as of something of low value, because you can get it so effortlessly. I would compare it to chocolate: some decades ago it was a luxury, a box of chocolates was a great and appreciated gift for any occasion. Now I can buy a chocolate bar *anywhere* and *anytime* for pennies. And chocolate is not perceived as a valuable gift anymore.

Someone above mentioned the word *content* - spot on observation! Music (just like TV series) is treated as a bubble gum - both by the makers and the listeners. So my "whining" was not only about today's music styles, but about the model and the role of music.

 

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I smell... it's... it's... like...

 

You DO realize that "Golden" spelt backwards is "Nedlog", right?
The implications are staggering.

Not to mention that "taken" spelt backwards is "nekat".
There are a suspiciously great number of words like that.
Even many proper names.
It may seem just a random thing but there could be an undiscovered mechanism driving it.
When you spell them backwards they form words that have yet to exist.

 

"each decade in music..."

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Well some music historians believe music follows the state of the changing world from R&R, Height-Ashbury so on and so forth....so I guess it's the Golden Age of FAUX PAS.

 

We are in a golden age of dance music.


In the 90’s Club dance music wasn’t taken seriously, everybody was of the same opinion, not proper music, only fit for clubbing.

So much so, music mags like NME, Melody Maker etc, didn’t even review it, some experts eh.

That all changed in 2000 as young folk realised the old opinion was just that, an opinion and an ignorant one at that, and dance started to rule da airwaves, still does.

Dance has ruled for over three decades now, it’s still the most innovative of all genres und it’s still evolving, period.


So, all of those, like you perhaps, who are of the Rick Beato frame of mind, well best to keep it buttoned as you don’t know what you’re talking about.

All the pioneer dance bods knew back when that folk would one day catch up with them, given time to adapt to a completely new way of doing it, dance music.

It’s called progress.


History reveals that there was certainly a Gloden Age of music between early 50’s to late 70’s, then 80’s screwed it, hence House music started to slowly chart…