Where is the love?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

So we're all resigned to a bit of a slump in pop and teenpop, but... am I imagining it, or is everyone getting spikey about music in general? I know "I Love Music" has rarely lived up to its name in the last 5 years, but it does feel like a lot of stuff (new stuff) is getting ACTIVE dislike more than seems usual (or healthy, to me).

Is this because things are "on the move" and people are trying harder to be "taste makers"?

Or perhaps I am just imagining it, and no explanation is needed.

Settle my mind, or solve my conundrum.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I do wonder sometimes if the fact that I'm *so much* more interested in the outcome of the shift in production/distribution than any shifts in music is a function of me being lazy rather than it being where the action is!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I can imagine that that might be true of me -- CDs I can currently see on my desk = Associates, Sulk & Fourth Drawer Down; Donna Summer, Bad Girls deluxe edition; Judy Collins, Wildflowers & Who Knows where the Time Goes; freebie Word magazine sampler CD; Wire Tapper 17; Infinite Livez vs Stade, Art Brut Fe De Yoot. I wonder if the fact that old music is so much more available in shops than it used to be is also a factor? i.e. this is stuff I have picked up browsing except for the one 2007 album, which I had to order off the interweb as it is not for sale in any Edinburgh stores. But this is basically because old CDs are cheap, new music I get off of emusic or naughty d/l.

I guess that law of diminishing returns for my own listening has set in -- i.e. new stuff sounds a bit dull, because always like something I've heard before. But then, this ain't necessarily so -- some of the post-techno stuff sounds great and fresh, if not exactly new.