Blink 182 are headlining. They were ****e in 2001. How are they popular now. Thank **** i'm not going.
The weird thing is that the band members all seem alright when you see them interviewed, but by heck their music's ****e.
As festivals have gone more mainstream, so as the music. Beyonce and Rihanna shouldn't be near festivals.
They only headlined a couple of years ago. I saw them and was incredibly disappointed. Fortunately Travis Barker is an incredible drummer!
Thank **** I'm not going this time then. Went in 2011 when Pulp headlined and The Strokes played just before them, that were class. Off to see Arctic Monkeys & Miles Kane at Finsbury Park next May. Much better than that Blink-182 ****e.
Music, along with many things has sadly become much more bland and homogenised over the last couple of decades. There have been no really groundbreaking new movements or sounds since the early to mid 90s. You could go back as far as the 1920s and state some sort of musical cultural vibe....... 1920s - Charleston Dance 1930s - Jazz 1940s - Big Band/Crooning 1950s - Rock and Roll 1960s - Hard Rock 1970s - Metal/Punk/Disco 1980s - New Wave/Synth 1990s - Rave/Techno/Brit Pop But from then, what do we have? Apart from an occasional artist or one-off recording it's all been rather boring with nothing really grabbing anyone's imagination. Chemical Brothers are great though - genre all of their own!
Depends if your simply referring to the charts or actually looking at the bigger picture. Garage, Dub-step, House, 2-Step, Rap (not Hip-Hop), Nu-Metal, Emo and Grime have been popularised in the 2000's and sold millions of records worldwide. They might not be to everyone's taste and not necessarily the mainstream, but their certainly not bland and homogenised.
He did say he was referring to the 'cultural vibe' which is essentially 'what was big back then'. All genres still exist. They just aren't as popular or well known as they once were or probably should be. Most of what you listed is pretty awful as well.
I think the 'cultural vibe' is entirely subjective and probably only becomes apparent in retrospect, hence why the 2000's are yet to form an identity. For example the 90's is arguably more remembered for the masses of manufactured pop than anything else. To call modern music bland though is just wrong, given the rise in technology for both creating and sharing music, we are probably in the most diverse period we've ever had.
