*facepalm* at today's music...
 

The current Billboard #1 (2nd week at #1 even and don't even know who the fuck this bitch is)...



...reminds me of this infamous turd:



Sure the Billboard #1 is more polished, but it's still a fucking turd. I haven't listened to music radio in 5 years, and not on a regular basis in 10, but for shits and giggles I follow Billboard charts and see what the masses like, because it's quite often shitty. The only time anything of remote substance hits the top of the charts, it tends to stay there for months at a time because everything else sucks ass. I like to at least know wtf people are talking about in case someone should ever bring one of these songs up to me somewhere, but I may just have to spare my ears and stop listening to anything besides what I already have in my music collection and what I'm forced to on TV shows, commercials and movies...this is just getting ridiculous. That Fireflies song is maybe even worse than this current #1 and it hit #1 twice! What the fuck?

sounds like the typical "slut anthem"

Yea, those are pretty terrible. It wouldn't be so bad, except you have 1m twits emulating what they see/hear in those dooshy videos.

Sounds like shit, saw her on Conan last night. But thats a mint '78 Trans Am in the video.

Well, it's the billboard charts. It's not popular music because it's popular, it's popular because it's popular.

I know... Let me explain.

Popular music, and what you see on the billboard charts. Isn't typically there because it's good, or everyone likes it, or any reasoning along those lines. It's there because the music studios make the radio and television outlets play the songs over and over and over and on every channel on every station over and over and over. It's not the "popular" music in the sense everyone likes it, it's the "popular" music in the sense most people simply don't know anything else.

For example. Take a look at some good bands with really good talent.

The Fratellis: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-...history/755593 - They only hit #71, with one of their best sounding songs ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=9in7pdQFUa4 ). They have two albums out which are both contains songs all just as good if not better than that single.

Then, for pure talent and musical ability.

Streetlight Manifesto: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-...history/527803 - They hit 154, and mind you, with a song off their third album. Because they simply aren't on a big enough record label to be pushed to the masses like shit like lady gaga is. Streetlight Song - https://youtube.com/watch?v=wAHBtbUNlqg

Then you have all the small town local bands, which are just never going to get picked up and thrown on the charts. Like Single File - http://www.billboard.com/artist/the-...history/768117 - They have plenty of good songs and even get some air time sometimes on the lowly channels. https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3SzhM6rYQA - They'll never make it big though, because they aren't what the labels are looking to push to the masses.

But sometimes, once in a blue moon. A decent band will actually make it on the charts. The Thermals for example - https://youtube.com/watch?v=HArLy3VOnAA - Got that song to hit #5 http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-...hermals/509306 . Which is incredible, you normally don't see an indie band like that hit a top chart like that.

In the mid to late 90s, I was a DJ at a radio station in Vermont that only played independent music (WRUV). During that time, I was amazed at how much crap was sent to the radio station from record labels in the hopes that it would be saturated on the airwaves. The staff must have tossed at least 9 out of 10 CDs that were sent...they were thrown into this plastic bin in the hallway for anyone to come along and swipe. But that's how radio stations normally work...the labels sent the material, the director makes the playlist, and the DJ is nothing more than a voice that can change tracks (in many modern radio stations, they don't even have to know how to do that anymore, as everything's automated nowadays).