Music nowadays is not half as good as it was in the time period of the 80’s, 90’s, and the early 2000’s.  You turn on the radio and what comes out? Some Kesha song with cliché lyrics accompanied by a manufactured beat.  The actual quality of music seems to have decreased in the past six years. 

Singers and bands should actually be able to sing, not just half speak or hold a barely decent tune in their songs.  Singers that are known to do this are Willow Smith, Kesha, and especially the new teen sensation Rebecca Black.  It seems auto tune is in, while talent is out.  Long ago, Cyndi Lauper and Duran Duran would never have used complete electronics to make their voices bearable.  Anyone can get a record deal, looking at the Disney stars, and most people on the top ten hits list.  Quality is not accounted for anymore.   Ask yourself, what makes a good singer? Is it a computer singing for them or lip-syncing, or could it be actually having a nice voice?

The background beats in music are more manufactured than the singers that sing the songs.  All the music is, is a poppy beat made for dancing. There is nothing creative or instrumental about music anymore at all.  In the past two decades and early 2000’s, instruments were widely used.  Many songs had solos or instrumentals in them, and instruments were just as large as the actual song, sometimes more important.  Now it seems that all instruments aren’t used, either to their full extent or at all.  Computers mix beats together and that is what musicians use, which isn’t music at all but technology. We can all agree anybody can make random noises that form a pattern, but an actual musician uses instruments for their songs,

Even lyrics, the base of a song, are given little thought.  Studying recent songs you can find that the words are either extremely shallow, cliché, or vulgar.  Today most songs have lyrics that are all about the same unoriginal topics ( love, sex, drugs, or partying).  They don’t try to connect to the listeners or make a difference.  It’s all about selling a catchy chorus that says nothing, going out directly to a younger crowd.  Songs such as Friday, Dynamite, Tik Tok, TGIF, and more are not touching songs.  A fifth grader could admittedly write lyrics, sell them, and the song become a hit, based on the simplicity of songs in the past years.  Even rappers lyrics are mostly about fitting in multiple bad words and topics, not about the actual content.

Music is an amazing art, but the time has come for it to be changed for the better.