{"id":6176,"date":"2022-06-29T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2022-06-29T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:39:10","slug":"all-modern-music-is-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6176","title":{"rendered":"All Modern Music Is Rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have seen at least two or three Youtube videos by people of a certain age claiming that modern music is rubbish because of auto-tuning and other technology aids. I dare say there&#8217;s an element of truth to the accusation &#8211; certainly auto-tuning singing sounds a lot like cheating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But people of a certain age have <em>always<\/em> claimed that modern music is shit &#8211; whatever era you choose. A certain <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elvis_Presley#Crazed_crowds_and_film_debut\">Elvis Presley<\/a> certainly had older people up in arms about this modern rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll rubbish back in the 1950s. And the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Beatles\">Beatles<\/a> in the 1960s, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sex_Pistols\">Sex Pistols<\/a> in the 1970s, etc. To a certain extent modern music is <em>supposed<\/em> to annoy people of a certain age &#8211; as far as young people are concerned that&#8217;s a feature not a bug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s more, in every era <em>most<\/em> of the music of that era was just a little bit shit. We all remember the good stuff and forget about the dross. There&#8217;s probably no more rubbish today than there was in your favourite era of music (autotuning not withstanding). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-03-03-hms-mersey-arriving.jpeg?resize=695%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-03-03-hms-mersey-arriving.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-03-03-hms-mersey-arriving.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-03-03-hms-mersey-arriving.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-03-03-hms-mersey-arriving.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1151&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-03-03-hms-mersey-arriving.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1535&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-03-03-hms-mersey-arriving.jpeg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption>HMS Mersey Arriving<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen at least two or three Youtube videos by people of a certain age claiming that modern music is rubbish because of auto-tuning and other technology aids. I dare say there&#8217;s an element of truth to the accusation &#8211; certainly auto-tuning singing sounds a lot like cheating. But people of a certain age <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6176' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[2105,2104],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-autotuning","tag-modern-music","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1BC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6177,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}