Same here.
Kanye can sing?
I thought the only reason rappers rap is because they can't sing for the life of them.
That article is pure shit, at best. Not arguing against its statements, but the only sources it cites are two Daily Mail pieces. Which is kinda like basing your arguments on pieces from The Onion.
Besides, only one of the two Daily Mail pieces actually discusses decreases in average IQ. If you read through it, it has a few contradicting statements as well. It references, in turn, to an article from the New Scientist, of which you can only read a paragraph, unless you pay for access. Even so,
they still seem to have gotten it wrong:
Yet the
New Scientist article they reference says this:
Not exactly the first time the Daily Mail fucks up.
Pretty much. The Beatles are arguably one of the most influential bands of all times. Kanye come, Kanye go, nobody will miss him and few will even remember him. He'll just be replaced by a new hot-as-shit-rapper-for-now.
Likewise. Never really got to like the Beatles, aside from a couple of songs. But the image and culture American rap artists promote is atrocious, at best.
That does depend a lot on the kind of music you listen to though. It also depends on how proactive you are in finding new music/artists in the genre you like.
I used to think just like you, but then I found some online radio stations playing my kind of music. I'm happy I did, because it's helped me discover tons of artists I would've never heard of otherwise. I would just've been stuck listening to my 20+ yo faves, bitching that music today is all shit.
It's not necessarily because it's cheaper to produce. The music industry, just like the movie industry, isn't afraid to spend if it predicts it can make a nice ROI. It's more because young people today are way more familiar with rap and the like, so it makes financial sense to churn out more of that, because it makes money.
Is this a rhetorical question?
