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It really is. I mean we had stuff like that (Blow Job Betty etc) but it wasnt main stream.

Cardi B's newest song straight up talks about sucking dick.

Yeah, I long for the good old days when Pop That Coochie was playing on the box 24/7.

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Cardi B's music and continued existence is an affront to God

I remember some graphic Too Short songs but that wasn't getting play on pop stations

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Back in my day, music was not THIS bad!

Signed,
Every older person

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I get the relativism that applies to most things but I honestly think mainstream music is objectively more shitty than years past.

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It is

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

on the other hand, you sound tough as nails

I originally typed smutty but my auto-correct changed it. In any case, yeah I don't think this another case of "bck in my day"

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Of course it is. Go look at the "popular" music when you were in your early 20s. Most of it was forgettable.

Now, when you can cherry pick 2-4 songs a year to build a catalog of songs and then throw in whatever you thought was good but not incredibly popular at time and you start to see the unrealistic expectation that today's music would match up with the music you think is good from multiple decades.

Or we could just all listen to The Beatles non-stop because all music after that can't compare.

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Top 100 most influential people in the world, according to Time

Completely agree. It's more about how outrageous you are and how you look more than what you say than it was 20 to 30 years ago.

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That was around then too.

Rick is right.

There's always been shitty popular music.

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To clarify, my statement, Im not saying music now is bad. I think much of it is good.

But there is more hardcore type stuff in the mainstream now. We dont have heroes like Tipper Gore trying to stop it from being played.

Cardi B is fine for a female rapper.

You have to prove it to me. It seemed like there were far more people who had actual talent and actually said something worthwhile in their music back then.

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Pick the year that you turned 20. Go look at the Billboard Top 100.

http://billboardtop100of.com/2002-2/

I actually like a lot of those songs on there but I know they aren't exactly masterpieces.

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Yeesh.

1 Elton John Candle In The Wind 1997
2 Jewel Foolish Games / You Were Meant For Me
3 Puff Daddy and Faith Evans I’ll Be Missing You
4 Toni Braxton Un-Break My Heart
5 Puff Daddy Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down
6 R. Kelly I Believe I Can Fly
7 En Vogue Don’t Let Go (Love)
8 Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack
9 LeAnn Rimes How Do I Live
10 Spice Girls Wannabe
11 Backstreet Boys Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
12 Hanson MMMBop
13 Monica For You I Will
14 Usher You Make Me Wanna…
15 Meredith Brooks Bitch
16 Keith Sweat Nobody
17 Third Eye Blind Semi-Charmed Life
18 Duncan Sheik Barely Breathing
19 Az Yet feat. Peter Cetera Hard To Say I’m Sorry
20 Notorious B.I.G. Mo Money Mo Problems
21 Verve Pipe The Freshmen
22 Savage Garden I Want You
23 BLACKstreet feat. Dr. Dre No Diggity
24 Rome I Belong To You (Every Time I See Your Face)
25 Notorious B.I.G. Hypnotize
26 Babyface Every Time I Close My Eyes
27 Dru Hill In My Bed
28 Spice Girls Say You’ll Be There
29 Robyn Do You Know (What It Takes)
30 Boyz II Men 4 Seasons Of Loneliness
31 Changing Faces G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T.
32 Mariah Carey Honey
33 Whitney Houston I Believe In You And Me
34 Freaknasty Da’ Dip
35 Spice Girls 2 Become 1
36 Sister Hazel All For You
37 112 Cupid
38 Paula Cole Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
39 Shawn Colvin Sunny Came Home
40 Tim McGraw and Faith Hill It’s Your Love
41 Gina G Ooh Aah… Just A Little Bit
42 Merril Bainbridge Mouth
43 Allure feat. 112 All Cried Out
44 New Edition I’m Still In Love With You
45 98 Degrees Invisible Man
46 Lil’ Kim Not Tonight
47 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Look Into My Eyes
48 702 Get It Together
49 Celine Dion All By Myself
50 Celine Dion It’s All Coming Back To Me Now
51 Somethin’ For The People My Love Is The Shhh!
52 No Mercy Where Do You Go
53 Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams I Finally Found Someone
54 Foxy Brown feat. Jay-Z I’ll Be
55 Sheryl Crow If It Makes You Happy
56 Dru Hill Never Make A Promise
57 Journey When You Love A Woman
58 Magoo And Timbaland Up Jumps Da Boogie
59 Toni Braxton I Don’t Want To / I Love Me Some Him
60 Sheryl Crow Everyday Is A Winding Road
61 Mc Lyte Cold Rock A Party
62 Ginuwine Pony
63 Sarah McLachlan Building A Mystery
64 Donna Lewis I Love You Always Forever
65 White Town Your Woman
66 Coolio C U When U Get There
67 Eric Clapton Change The World
68 B-Rock and The Bizz My Baby Daddy
69 Chumbawamba Tubthumping
70 R. Kelly Gotham City
71 Az Yet Last Night
72 Various Artists ESPN Presents The Jock Jam
73 Heavy D Big Daddy
74 Total What About Us
75 Scarface Smile
76 Montell Jordan What’s On Tonight
77 Bruce Springsteen Secret Garden
78 Aaliyah The One I Gave My Heart To
79 Seal Fly Like An Eagle
80 Lil’ Kim No Time
81 Luscious Jackson Naked Eye
82 Los Del Rio Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
83 Erykah Badu On & On
84 Joe Don’t Wanna Be A Player
85 Warren G I Shot The Sheriff
86 Brian McKnight feat. Mase You Should Be Mine (Don’t Waste Your Time)
87 Madonna Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
88 SWV Someone
89 Michael Bolton Go The Distance
90 Real McCoy One More Time
91 Next Butta Love
92 Mr. President Coco Jamboo
93 Keith Sweat Twisted
94 Aqua Barbie Girl
95 Cranberries When You’re Gone / Free To Decide
96 DJ Kool Let Me Clear My Throat
97 Blackout Allstars I Like It
98 Toni Braxton You’re Makin’ Me High / Let It Flow
99 Madonna You Must Love Me
100 Ray J Let It Go

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That top 25 is really good

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Chaz: My whole life, people have been cramming this classic-rock crap down my throat. Think I give a shit about the Beatles?

Ian: No offense, but today's music doesn't have a whole lot to say.

Chaz: Is that right? So you're gonna tell me that 'Purple Haze' says something?

Music today would sound “better” if it was filtered through the same cheezy, boring top 40 radio stations and an MTV that still played videos of the 80’s. Today you hear all the garbage you never would be exposed to 30 years ago thanks to YouTube and stuff.

That's a timeless dance song. It accomplished its goal.

What is this?

"Bitch, I dig it, I eat ice cream with my chickens
Bitch, I'm rich just like a Simmons,"

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I agree but that is because we are of the same age. I doubt our parents would agree on the Nickleback/Puddle Of Mudd/Creed triumvirate.

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The radio execs control the music and the radio stations control what is played. The artists take their cues from them. In order to get their music played on the radio they have to conform to what the radio execs want.

Back when hip hop took off artists like Cardi B would never have been played on the radio. Hell rap wasn't played on the radio if you weren't LL. This was the case in the late 80's up til about the mid to late 90's. You got your rap fix from watching videos and that was only about 30 mins - an hr a day.

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Ooh, that 2002 is pretty bleak. I like "A Thousand Miles" a lot, though. 1997 was a very good year.

2006 has "Sexyback" and "Promiscuous," at least. I guess those are classics.

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There are different genres of music that we like that our parents didn't like. Most of our parents complained about the pushing of the envelope and how explicit certain genres of music were. I'm not necessarily wagging my finger at artists pushing the envelope, I feel like the actual lyrics are mostly shitty.

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Thanks for reminding me Duncan Shiek exists, dicks.

1997 was better but 2002 was good.

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Hip hop/rap is going through a tough time right now. Lyrics aren't very important to this lot of fans.

The good stuff is still there, its just not as popular