• Graphy@lemmy.world
    61·
    9 months ago

    Ugly people make music all the time.

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

  • Mac@mander.xyz
    56·
    9 months ago

    “Ugly” people still make music but apparently you don’t listen to it. Shameful, tbh.

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    53·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • TryingSomethingNew@lemmy.world
      10·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, no kidding. I just bought tickets for a $15 show that has multiple bands and included a overseas band. I mentioned to them that they should’ve upped the prices to $20.

      Also: Sturgeon‘s law still applies: “90% of everything is crap“. Music is so amazingly easy to make these days you can do it on your phone (and I believe a Grammy nominated/winning album did so). Which means that there are literally thousands of albums every year, And so there will be a lot of crap. But between Bandcamp and Spotify and SoundCloud (and so on, even self-hosting), this is the freaking plutonium age if you like new music. There is literally so much that you can’t possibly keep up with it, even in sub genres. And there are some amazing gems coming out daily

    • macrocarpa@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      tbh we are all just snapshots of ourselves at different stage of the same cycle. The Simpsons did a whole thing about lolapalooza which starts with homer looking for his favourite artists in a record store, and the record store dude, and being directed to the oldies section.

      The bands that feature in that episode are the smashing pumpkins, soundgarden , cypress Hill and Peter Frampton, all of whom appear in Spotify old school lists

      • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        Oh sure, everything new becomes old eventually, that’s just how time works. I’m more poking fun at those who let their nostalgia determine what is worthwhile.

    • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      9 months ago

      I had a luthier tell me how much was much better before the record. How artists would perform live and have to do their best in these performances.

      Once records came around all the artists sold out and it has been downhill from there.

      “Ok, can I have my guitar back, please…”

  • SSJMarx@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    9 months ago

    Ugly people are still have always been making it, pop acts have just make a pretty person pretend to sing it it sells better.

    • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      9 months ago

      I am convinced that producers go out with a company checkbook and standard boilerplate, find acts that have good songs, then buy the rights to those songs.

      They then give the songs to larger pop artists and never credit the original artist because there is no need. They likely pay well for a decent song.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
        10·
        9 months ago

        They do.
        It’s extremely rare that people like Taylor Swift get as big as she is from writing her own songs.

        There are actual classes you can take on how to write pop songs, taught by people who made pop artists big.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    25·
    9 months ago

    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”.

    • mister_flibble@lemm.ee
      13·
      9 months ago

      Tbf, I think radio absolutely used to be better before iheart and their ilk bought fucking everything and turned every goddamn station into a hypersanitized prepackaged mix of the same 10 bloody songs over and over. Therefore, by extension, I could 100% see how someone basing their opinion on what actually gets radio play could easily arrive at the conclusion that music is worse now.

      • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        I’m very lucky to have an independent radio station in my area. It’s run by a nearby college, but they let anyone take training to become a host.

        They don’t always play music I like (hell, they don’t always even play music) but I’ll deal with 30 minutes of buddhist chanting because the variety can’t be beaten. Also, they have no ad breaks.

        • taiyang@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          Oh man, my independent station is wild sometimes. It swaps between a lot of genres, from punk to classical. They played an Earthbound video game cover once, even. My npr station is relatively fine too.

          Corpos 100% ruin radio, though, and that’s been true for a long time. Stations often get incentives to pay the same songs and that’s only gotten worse with time. True across all popular genres, too.

  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
    19·
    9 months ago

    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.