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What's your most unpopular opinion about music ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me : Trippie Redd's "!" Is actually a great album

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

For so many artists, they'll have a single hit that survived the test of time and most that didn't. We hear the one song that not only topped the charts but continued to be remembered. I tried going back to the top 100 songs of the 50's. Some of them are good (Hound Dog), but others frankly just aren't very good. Contrast that with the modern day, I had a neighbor growing up who is a professional singer who has better original songs.

Then you just get the factor of time itself. Old includes all surviving music before the present day. When you have centuries of music (if not more),