Modern music is a reflection of the messed up culture in America

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Modern music is a reflection of the messed up culture in America

Moralmoe91
Anyone who has turned on their radio in America knows that the quality of the music has gone down the tubes. This is especially true of the music created by black musicians. Black men used to sing beautiful love songs filled with soul and now they sing about getting ass, drugs, money, and how cool they are.  Most musicians today lack talent and creativity. Auto tune has allowed any asshole or slut with good looks and a mic to be stars and that's what is happening.
     As I mentioned in another thread I'm studying Russian because I plan to go to Russia and Ukraine to find a wife when I'm able to.  And since I've been learning the language I've been listening to Russian music to aid my studies and I've discovered that their music is like our music was a few decades ago. The Russian music I have listened to has soul and creativity that just isn't present in American music today.  Music is an art and art should be beautiful, not shit like American music is. I was already aware that American music sucked but after listening to some of the amazing Russian music I've listened to it has become even more obvious to me how bad American music is.  America truly is culturally bankrupt.
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fschmidt
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Can you post a link to an example of Russian music?  I am curious how it sounds.
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qwerty
I definitely agree with this, and more broadly, I think that music has been declining for the past 100 years. Just out of curiosity, are there any classical music lovers here? If so, who are your favorite composers?
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ShaunS
Perhaps many people do not 'love' classical music, which should perhaps be considered as more theraputic in the modern world.

Mozart
Miles Davis
and his buddy John Coltrane.

These exhibit the Mozart effect due to the preference for some chords over others, and some degree of repeating patterns not really understood. In the epileptic the Mozart effect is strobing the temporal lobes like tunning a car engine and must surely be cheaper than the drugs they take. In prisons the Mozart effect could be played in the late evening to reduce the violence etc. In schools it could be played and taught to improve the minds of the children.

John Coltrane's Jazz version of 'My Favorite Things' was shown to exhibit the Mozart effect, thus the alternative to listen to Jazz Music instead has been proven. All of this is scientifically proven, it's also very cheap as well as being traditional. Mozart came from Austria just as Adolf did. Not sure why the right wing doesn't embrace it?

It has a psychoactive effect, it directly impacts the brain via the ears, and it can't be banned. The music of Mozart is so old that the structures are out of copyright so there is potential to make money from it. What's not to like - heck he was even a Freemason... and you know what these guys are saying right - he wasn't Jewish? Perhaps you could become Jewish instead?