Someone forbade you to make music?

Nah, ugly ppl still make the music, behind the scenes :p

Pop is just as manufactured and fake as it always was, with the exceptional trend setter or two doing their own thing, but what's just below the surface is always just as good as it always was.

As a fan of hardcore, electronica, folk, metal, and all of the genres that fall under them, I still get new bands. I still get new releases. I get cheap as fuck concerts and still get cool merch and awesome vinyls. I have zero to complain about. Hell, Primus, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer just made an album together, in 2024.

Anyone who says music sucks now doesn't really listen to that much music to start with. Music is just fine, man. Maybe look a little deeper than the pudding skin.

Ugly people make music all the time.

You really gonna tell me Ed Sheeran is good looking? Post Malone?

"Ugly" people still make music but apparently you don't listen to it. Shameful, tbh.

Yea that's why metal fuckin rules. We got the ugliest guys ever altogether in one room and said "what you got?" and they became legends

And for anyone that might say that doesn't happen anymore, I ask: how many open mic nights or $20 shows have you been to lately? The scene is doing great in my area, but it doesn't happen by magic. Ya gotta support it, spread the word, bring your friends.

Video killed the radio star

Is this showerthoughts or oldbumperstickers?

"music was better when..."

Any version of this makes the speaker sound suuuper old and bitter. 😂

This is the kind of boomer post you make if you haven't followed music in 20 years.

What do you think "video killed the radio star" was about?

ugly people aren't allowed to make music anymore?

well fuck me then.

Lol, do you think only pop star music exist? It's actually the contrary that happend. Now, more than ever, anyone can make music. This is a really bad take.

What do you mean? there are plenty of British recording artists

Yeah no, that's just a cranky old guy thought. Just today I was watching fairly average looking people promoting music on late shows. You're probably getting a very thin slice of pop music and ignoring everything else (and hell, even pop breaks that rule sometimes).

Plus, physical beauty and music are both subjective. I try to not get all "old man yells at cloud" about how music "used to be better".

Video killed the radio star

Not really related to that stupid boomer post, but ho crazy is it that that ugly british lady won music star or popstar or whatever and everyone was like: oh my god this is insane, ugly people can do things? They are almost like real people.

I think music staring going downhill when music was no longer an audio only thing. Once bands were expected to make videos, posters, and "act" on stage, suddenly a lot of musicians had problems getting into the business. They want to make music, not become pseudo-actors.

I don't think music has gotten any worse. However, it is much easier and cheaper to produce music today: you don't have to be able to play an instrument and professional production is possible with comparatively inexpensive software on any standard computer. This and also the changes in distribution (no more need for sound carriers, ...) have probably led to a lot more music being produced today than in the past. Of course, this does not mean that music has become better as a result, but it also does not mean that it has become worse. You just have to find the gems among the admittedly gigantic amount of junk.

Beauty is, of course, in the eye of the beholder, but this is Richard Goodall. He's a school janitor in my town of Terre Haute, Indiana and he just won America's Got Talent. He will probably have at least a somewhat successful musical career after this. He really blew people away.

Ah yes, ugly singers like:

Elvis Presley
Frank Sinatra
John Bon Jovi
Freddie Mercury
Aretha Franklin

Indie labels still allow ugly people on stage!

Pop / major label's job is more on the money side than the music. We don't see ugly people in adverts either.

They aren't even ugly, they're just beautiful in a different way than media accepts.

Music was better when I used to look at the back of an album and the credits were like a dozen people. I'm sorry to people who like Beyonce, Gaga etc. But you look at their albums and they have hundreds of writers, engineers, producers, mixers, etc. What do these celebrities actually do anymore? Just show up and read the lines and the crew takes care of the rest? I'm sorry but that to me isn't a good artist or musician, that's just manufactured branding.