Millennial Music fucking sucks

[FourT6and2]

That's fine if you disagree, but this is the millennial music that is widely associated with the millennial generation because it was the most culturally relevant when millennials were culturally relevant

No one associates millennials with Nu-Metal or Emo/Pop Punk. They associate them with manbuns and obamacare because that was millennials at their "peak" culturally.

That's completely acceptable if you want to granulate it further, but the entire universe besides you doesn't do that - especially non-millennials

I didn't listen to this bullshit (by choice) either

It's cool to make fun of it and all. But I don't agree with the premise.

I'm going the opposite direction you think I'm going. I'm not granulating it down further. I'm generalizing it more. I'm saying this "millennial music" is the outlier, not the norm. Go look at Spotify's top streaming artists for this time period or demographic or the Billboard charts or the most streamed artists on YT. Or even what popular bands there are whose members are millennials. Culturally relevant? According to whom? The numbers show the exact opposite. And yes, Linkin Park was vastly more popular than Mumford & Sons.

The specific music y'all are talking about here and associating with the entire millennial population is 'folk rock revival'. Hardly the defining music for an entire population of people born between '81 and '96.

That list is as bad if not worse than what was in the video

Totally. Pop music (and that's what all of it is at the end of the day) is usually garbage.

 

[Fiesta Red]

BTW, while I posted that Olivia Dean video as a bit of a joke, she's actually pretty dope lol. My gf is into her and we saw her live last year and it was a good show!

I like it. It was an actual song, and the female vocalist wasn't trying to sound like Adele or Amy Winehouse

 

[thegame]

Gary my dude

Be glad you weren't forced to be around it and hear it with every social interaction you had for about a decade

I'm sure you had more than your fill of it anyways, but if you were a bit younger, you would have had it shoved down your throat every day all the time

Man, you didn’t touch upon whether this shit was formally celebrated in the US music industry and such. Because in Canada these Mennonite nursery rhyme “artists” won numerous Juno (lol) awards and were pushed pretty hard in the media, infecting all forms of it. Musically, this shit is basically the “prog” lol version of primitive Stone Age Indigenous beat the drum chanting but with added banjos and Anglo Saxon dialect.

 

[DanTravis62]

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The specific music y'all are talking about here and associating with the entire millennial population is 'folk rock revival'. Hardly the defining music for an entire population of people born between '81 and ....

Yes but whether you like it or not, THIS is the music people associate with millennials - not me

When other generations, and the public in general talk about millennial music, they are talking about folk rock revival whether you find it general enough or not

I'm sure all the people listening to the rat pack and big band in the 60s weren't happy their generation got associated with greasy dirty hippies fucking in sewer mud at Woodstock either, but that's what people associate with the boomers regardless

You can take your case to the president of generalizations headquarters, and I'm sure if your motion is approved it will trickle down to the 5 billion non-millennials on planet earth who call "folk rock revival" millennial music

 

[DanTravis62]

Man, you didn’t touch upon whether this shit was formally celebrated in the US music industry and such. Because in Canada these Mennonite nursery rhyme “artists” won numerous Juno (lol) awards and were pushed pretty hard in the media, infecting all forms of it. Musically, this shit is basically the prog version of primitive Stone Age Indigenous beat the drum chanting but with added banjos and Anglo Saxon dialect.

It wasnt as bad here in the US as far as the music industry, but was just as prevalent culturally unfortunately

 

[FourT6and2]

You can take your case to the president of generalizations headquarters, and I'm sure if your motion is approved it will trickle down to the 5 billion non-millennials on planet earth who call "folk rock revival" millennial music

I'm on it! ChatGPT is currently drafting a letter for me

 

[DanTravis62]

I'm on it! ChatGPT is currently drafting a letter for me

Good! I hope it succeeds

I think Linkin Park is hiv positive, and reminds me of hanging out in trailer parks buying drugs, but I would 100% rather people associated millennials with that shit rather than stomp clap hey

Make sure the President of Generalizations knows that early to mid 90s skate punk has a strong case too would you

 

[FourT6and2]

Good! I hope it succeeds

I think Linkin Park is hiv positive, and reminds me of hanging out in trailer parks buying drugs, but I would 100% rather people associated millennials with that shit rather than stomp clap hey

Make sure the President of Generalizations knows that early to mid 90s skate punk has a strong case too would you

Man I grew up listening to punk rock. NOFX, Pennywise, Bad Religion, Dead Fucking Last, Dropkick Murphys, etc. NOFX is still in my top 5 favorite bands of all time.

 

[DanTravis62]

Man I grew up listening to punk rock. NOFX, Pennywise, Bad Religion, Dead Fucking Last, Dropkick Murphys, etc. NOFX is still in my top 5 favorite bands of all time.

That's what I associate with "millennial music", at least with being young, for my generation

I imagine thats how boomer Frank Sinatra and Perry como fans feel about everyone associating the 60s with unwashed stoners with acoustic guitars

 

[VonBonfire]

NOFX is still in my top 5 favorite bands of all time.

There are few bands I hate more than nofx.

 

[DanTravis62]

There are few bands I hate more than nofx.

I like their records from like 91-97 or so - it isn't exactly a "sad wings to painkiller" or "overkill to orgasmatron" run but a couple of those albums are very good

Their music the last 30 years has been really, truly awful - they got eclipsed by all their peers and those that followed them, and I think it made fat Mike a bitter, sad, shitty dude

 

[VonBonfire]

I like their records from like 91-97 or so - it isn't exactly a "sad wings to painkiller" or "overkill to orgasmatron" run but a couple of those albums are very good

Their music the last 30 years has been really, truly awful - they got eclipsed by all their peers and those that followed them, and I think it made fat Mike a bitter, sad, shitty dude

I just was force fed it by people I knew and got damn sick of hearing it to the point it pisses me off like bro country. If it's gotta be punk it needs to be Danzig era Misfits which is basically metal with shitty guitarists or the Ramones or maybe some Minute Men or Operation Ivy but damn the audio quality on their sound system album was awful.

 

[DanTravis62]

I just was force fed it by people I knew and got damn sick of hearing it to the point it pisses me off like bro country. If it's gotta be punk it needs to be Danzig era Misfits which is basically metal with shitty guitarists or the Ramones or maybe some Minute Men or Operation Ivy but damn the audio quality on their sound system album was awful.

All classic, excellent punk

You should check out bad brains self titled, husker du zen arcade, suicidal tendencies first album, minor threat, and black flag "damaged" (but only that one) if you wanna hear similar stuff to the stuff you like

You may end up enjoying one of em

 

[VonBonfire]

All classic, excellent punk

You should check out bad brains self titled, husker du zen arcade, suicidal tendencies first album, minor threat, and black flag "damaged" (but only that one) if you wanna hear similar stuff to the stuff you like

You may end up enjoying one of em

I like suicidal to some degree. I have heard most of those bands at one time or another but never really did a deep dive. Dead Kennedys had some interesting stuff i.e holiday in cambodia. The first music group I played with was some pixies and dinosaur jr fanatics. It just really wasn't my thing but I was 14 and hungry to play, period.

It's not so much not liking punk, it's not really liking most punks. It was like a form of hister-ism in the 90's. Doc Martens and suspenders and leather jackets with a bunch of studs in it...and lefty politics. I find it retarded the same way I find dudes in bowling shirts and fedoras retarded. In the case of the punk stuff it's some weird non-conformist group think and my brain don't work that way.

In the case of blues it's like a bullshit cosplay version of dudes who all want to be T-bone walker or some rockabilly throwback....and lefty politics while simultaneously expressing racist views in private, great, since I am basically a black man in a closet, which makes for an extra weird experience all around smh.

I like finding my own path which is what I see from some of the punk bands, and musicians, I have seemed to enjoy the most.

 

[FourT6and2]

I like suicidal to some degree. I have heard most of those bands at one time or another but never really did a deep dive. Dead Kennedys had some interesting stuff i.e holiday in cambodia. The first music group I played with was some pixies and dinosaur jr fanatics. It just really wasn't my thing but I was 14 and hungry to play, period.

It's not so much not liking punk, it's not really liking most punks. It was like a form of hister-ism in the 90's. Doc Martens and suspenders and leather jackets with a bunch of studs in it...and lefty politics. I find it retarded the same way I find dudes in bowling shirts and fedoras retarded. In the case of the punk stuff it's some weird non-conformist group think and my brain don't work that way.

In the case of blues it's like a bullshit cosplay version of dudes who all want to be T-bone walker or some rockabilly throwback....and lefty politics while simultaneously expressing racist views in private, great, since I am basically a black man in a closet, which makes for an extra weird experience all around smh.

I like finding my own path which is what I see from some of the punk bands, and musicians, I have seemed to enjoy the most.

I'm able to separate all that shit from the music. I don't wear all black, have tattoos, or have a viking beard, but I still like some death metal, black metal, etc. I went to a Meshuggah show last year and I was the only one not wearing all black. Has nothing to do with the music.

 

[VonBonfire]

I'm able to separate all that shit from the music. I don't wear all black, have tattoos, or have a viking beard, but I still like some death metal, black metal, etc. I went to a Meshuggah show last year and I was the only one not wearing all black. Has nothing to do with the music.

I'm the same way I just find it weird there are some sort of group think dress code cliches associated with music. It's kind of dumb especially when a lot of the people at various concerts and shows don't actually dress that way on the street. A night of cosplay.

 

[FourT6and2]

BTW, I'm fucking weird. When I was a kid, the very first three albums I ever bought, I bought together at a Target. Bush's "Sixteen Stone", TLC's "Waterfalls", and Garth Brooks' "In Pieces"

 

[DanTravis62]

BTW, I'm fucking weird. When I was a kid, the very first three albums I ever bought, I bought together at a Target. Bush's "Sixteen Stone", TLC's "Waterfalls", and Garth Brooks' "In Pieces"

As kids I think we all did that, especially pre-internet

I think I signed up for columbia house or something similar and got Michael Jackson "dangerous", Ace of Base "The Sign", Skeelo "I wish," Judas Priest "Painkiller," Garbage self-titled, and Bad Religion "Suffer" all in the mail one day, so I was just as schizophrenic

I think the beastie boys licence to ill was in there somewhere too

 

[VonBonfire]

As kids I think we all did that, especially pre-internet

I think I signed up for columbia house or something similar and got Michael Jackson "dangerous", Ace of Base "The Sign", Skeelo "I wish," Judas Priest "Painkiller," Garbage self-titled, and Bad Religion "Suffer" all in the mail one day, so I was just as schizophrenic

I think the beastie boys licence to ill was in there somewhere too

Oof....Ace of Base

I hate the damn beastie boys more than nofx LOL.

I did the Columbia House thing.....Pat Metheny Beyond the Missouri Sky, Isley Bros Mission to Please....can't remember what else. I usually hit the bargain tape bin at Pamida....kiss self titled, muddy mississippi waters....my best friend had hippie parents with an extensive record collection and LP player plus tape deck so I dubbed all the blues his old man had....

 

[rsm]

just finished getting ready to go to the live blues open mic night....just a shortcut through the forest and we're there