Perfectly analyzed! You could also call it the age of idiocy.

 

As soon as I saw the thread title I knew the answer was the Golden Age of Fosterism. Looks like I was late to the party though...

 

Dear AI, please write me an intelligent, contemporary song about 3 drops?

Spoiler: Source: ChatGPT KI

Of course! Here's a contemporary, intelligent song titled "Three Drops"—a poetic and modern exploration of emotion, time, and meaning, using the metaphor of three drops (of water, blood, and ink) to represent different aspects of the human experience. Think of it as an indie/electronic fusion piece, with room for atmospheric production and emotional delivery.

Three Drops
(Verse 1)
One drop fell from the edge of a leaf,
Caught the sun like a secret beneath.
It rolled like time down the curve of a hand,
A moment we never quite understand.

Second drop hit the page like a drum,
Ink from a pen that forgot where it's from.
Spilled thoughts in a digital age,
Truth caught in the silence between the page.

(Pre-Chorus)
And they fall, and they fall,
No trumpet call, no curtain call.
But in the hush, they speak it all—
Three drops, too small to stall.

(Chorus)
Three drops in a world on fire,
Water, blood, and a broken wire.
Whispers louder than the choir,
Hope, hurt, and human desire.
Oh, three drops—don’t underestimate,
They’re small, but they recalibrate.

(Verse 2)
Third drop came from a wound not seen,
Red on white like a censored dream.
Not every scar was born in war,
Some are stitched in the soul we ignore.

Neon lights in a midnight stream,
Flicker truths in a fractured dream.
We dance like nothing weighs the air,
But each drop proves that we still care.

(Bridge)
One for the past we never fixed,
One for the love that still exists,
One for the story we haven’t told—
Three drops worth more than gold.

(Chorus)
Three drops in a world on fire,
Water, blood, and a broken wire.
Whispers louder than the choir,
Hope, hurt, and human desire.
Oh, three drops—don’t underestimate,
They’re small, but they recalibrate.

(Outro)
So if you see them fall—don’t blink,
They hold more than we dare to think.
In every drop, a seed, a spark—
Three signs glowing in the dark.

Would you like it formatted for sheet music, or with a melody suggestion?

 

'SlopBop'

and there seems to be quite a bit of 'Whatever' around.

 

And here we are, heading into page 4, it'll be 10 pages by the weekend.

 

We are in the Golden Age of remembering how much better the old stuff was.

 

Whatever age it is I like to listen to music which has aged well and pleasantly (pre-Taylor Swift and puppets like her)

 

I have a lot of respect for you. Both for you and pulsewave and the rest of the members.
But I can't deal with the new generation at all. I always see the younger generation as the biggest threat to art. When I see the younger generation, I feel like an unsolvable problem is being passed by me. They created the current situation in terms of both productions and listeners. Like an unruly child who constantly trashes their room and makes messes. If the younger generation is not stopped, all assets and possessions will be sacked.

 

Golden age of Behringer

 

The golden age of grotesque...

 

Now that I think about it more, I see that the era we are in can be called the golden age of making mess. Like a Rubik's Cube with all 6 faces the same color is transformed into a mess.

 

... of mediocrity.

 

My daughter is 20. She says that the kids just 3 or 4 years younger than she are completely fucked up because most were raised with their faces in front of an iPad or tablet and phone and their reality has been warped by outside influences, their peers who are equally way out there and it's as if their parents have abdicated their responsibilities to personally bring them up. They have no respect for anything and most are seemingly verging on being feral. Teenage boys are addicted to porn and gaming so their chemistry is unbalanced and aberrant, the girls equally so with social media. The generation is seemingly lost. How will the world function when they come of age with AI dominant in so many aspects of their lives, from art to science, surveilling their every move and overseers overseeing their moment to moment.

I have little to no contact with that age group so am depending on her experience.

It doesn't bode well for Western Civilization.

 

It's wild that this is a widely and mutually understood/agreed upon sentiment (even by people in that "fucked" up generation). We all inherently understand the future is bleak. Weird feeling.

For that to have any chance at changing, people have to be willing to legitimately make profound sacrifices and I just don't think the majority of the modern world has that in them.

 

My daughter is 21 and she's pretty fucked up. I love her but I don't know if she can function on her own in society. She was on the spectrum anyway and screens, social media, covid crap... we did our best but I just don't know.

 

jeez change/progress has always been the most important factor to bring new musical masterpieces ahahahahaha

 

late to the party but...having read most of what you guys said, it seems we fostered (pun intended) a generation of wanna be's that like to reach mega stardom without going the extra mile, mixing with one wonder plugin that settles all unbalances and flaws and having hit songs that can be generated with one click, and oh yeah....everything is 'makeable', even if you don't have a clue and don't have the talent. A generation that believes being a dj equals being a performing musician.....

 

We live in an age of instant gratification. People seem dissatisfied with anything less sadly.

 

Maybe, but to me the real problem is that I'm not deaf.

 

hmm, i think for many the 90s was the golden age of dance music, because it was a HUGE life changing scene across Europe. All the key dance genres were invented between 1986 and 2002 ish, with the mid 90's being peak new genre generation. Authentic niche underground dance releases got in the pop charts regularly.

Everything now is a mash up of those genres and subgenres. Lots of great underground dance tracks are made every day but its being enjoyed by small subsections of people, it all lacks the innovation or cross cultural impact of the 90's. Dance music lacks edge or danger now.

As an authentic cultural movement it was corporatized a long time ago as America monetised it in the 00's, and innovation slowed right down. Modern pop dance music might be popular but has little to do with the underground, its not club music, its just corporate pop for phones.

To me, a golden age indicates the most impactful, authentic and culturally creative period, not the most generic and monetised.

 

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