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submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

....except country.....

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[-] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 1 points 6 days ago

Maybe you should look at post-country, folk or folk punk.

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My parents routinely started listening to several of my favourite bands when I was a teen.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to be an angsty rebellious teenager when your parents are supportive of your tastes and phases?

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 1 week ago

It's been a while for a new rebellious music genre to appear, though...

Kids, let's go, we are waiting!

[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 27 points 1 week ago

Mumble rap is the rebellious version of old school rap.

Just look how angry it makes old school rap lovers.

[-] MBech@feddit.dk 17 points 1 week ago

I generally don't really like rap, but mumble rap just sounds lazy as shit. Like "I can't even be bothered to open my mouth". It's also so stupidly monotone. I may just be an old man yelling at kids, but that's music I will never understand.

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[-] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago

I love the strange genre merges by bands like electric callboy or hanabie but i doubt you can call most their fans kids

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Don't know Hanabie, but Electric Callboy certainly is the ultimate comfort music for GenX and Millenials.
The Europop-Techno-Metal mix massively tingels my nostalgia based on the music genres of my youth. Plus it is a surprisingly fitting combination and rocks on a massive scale. :-)

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Fucking same. I'm early millennial. Been absolutely loving Electric Callboy. Favorite Band to come out of the 15ish years. Also like Hanabie and some of the more recent Babymetal. I don't need to know the words to like the music.

[-] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Definitely check Hanabie out if you like Electric Callboy. They are the all female Japanese answer to them. One of the best female shouts I've ever heard and the Jpop-techno mix is real fun

[-] Mozingo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I feel like there's a few. Like whatever you want to call artists like 100 gecs, or femtanyl.

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

Just looked them up.
Fentanyl I found classified as Hardcore Punk, which would already be around since the 80s.
But 100 gecs seems to be something called Hyperpop, which is a genuine new GenZ thing!
Sounds interesting, will have a look!

[-] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Hyperpop kinda feels like more of a vibe than a music style. The most defining trait being pitched up vocals but to me, is moreso about the energy (angst?) it brings

We have hyperpop that veers more towards rap https://youtu.be/BFF5pyVNd8w

And more standard hyperpop like ericdoa, glaive, and midwxst https://youtu.be/WCPJK9GCXHE https://youtu.be/LseJIsQ62WQ https://youtu.be/Jmz8CXm8JLY https://youtu.be/kCBKHdTwbXU

And derivatives from hyperpop like dariacore https://youtu.be/Lojx82Etjl0

And other artists that started in hyperpop but went on to do their own thing like my goat brakence https://youtu.be/cpGHMGOeg-o

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[-] madjo@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

I hope it's something like TechnoCountry...

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
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[-] red_tomato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Is Skibidi Toilet music good enough for you?

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

The whole brainrot thing goes in the right direction, but is not really a music genre.
The Skibidi song e.g. is pretty conventional stuff.
The videos are the avant-garde part here.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

richard d james need to get back into the studio.

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[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 27 points 1 week ago

Unless it's an AI song. If you link me an AI song I will bring back the beatings.

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[-] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago

SpongeBob me boy, that sounds sick AF! What's the song so I can add it to me playlist? Arg arg arg arg arg!

[-] Juice@midwest.social 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mark Fisher, the author of Capitalist Realism, in another book called "Exiting the Vampire Castle", argued that in the history of recorded music, every 20 - 30 years or so there were new genres of music that wouldn't be recognizable as music to the previous generation. But around the early 2000s this process stopped, and musical categories hardened due to capitalist logic. Record companies just wanted to churn out the same things that they already knew how to market, rather than invest in artists who were cutting edge. He called it "the slow cancellation of the future".

Granted I think Fisher is kind of overrated as a practical theorist, all those CCRU research people went crazy, and Fisher is a particularly sad example. His vampire castle book is okay, and that generation was like preoccupied with marketing manipulation (a perspective that arguably was being marketed to them/us).

But through that perspective this meme is interesting, because the reason younger generations can connect about musical tastes, is because popular music has stopped being subversive. Chances are the band the younger boy is listening to has a sound that was copped from an older group, which is why the young man recognizes it as good. But to the older generations, music was still subversive, the young rejected the older, already explored categories of music, which were themselves subversive in their own time.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

To play the devil's advocate here: "music used to be subversive but now it's all the same, nothing original" sounds just like a grumpy old man yelling at a cloud. Old people will find reasons to hate new stuff.

This isn't to disagree. I read Capitalist Realism and think the argument works. And personally, I remember how shocked I was to find out that Behind Blue Eyes wasn't originally by Limp Bizkit but much older and that my mom listened to the punk rock band I liked as a teenager when she was young. My question might be if there ever was anything "new under the sun" but first and foremost, I like the idea as a devil's advocate.

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[-] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I pretty much like good music from many generations and genres. But you know what I don't understand? About 85% of the Beatles songs.They had a few great songs, but so many of them do absolutely nothing for me.

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

This is, in a nutshell, why music was better back then. Only the gold has stood the test of time. Most of it, like today, was shit.

[-] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

And then came AI generated music...

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Counter-point: AI-generated muzak.

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Counterpoint to both you and OP: AI generated country songs

[-] user_name@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Actual, classic country is really good. It’s the modern stuff that’s all about loving Bush’s wars, drinking shitting beer, and hating gay people that’s the problem.

Doc Watson, Johnny Cash, and Marty Robbins are all worth checking out, to name a few.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

For me good country music is about growing up rural poor and making rebellious music with heart and soul. You can't authentically make that music while hating people (be they women, brown, queer, trans, foreign etc.). You can't make that music without being against cops and corporations like Nestle and United Health.

I had typed out an overly long rant about modern country losing its soul and just being pop music with a guitar twang veneer and classic country shit heels like David Allen Coe who still managed to make some memorable songs. Instead I'll just list some contemporary artists that I'd put on the same playlist and call it country.

In no particular order: Jesse Welles, Sturgill Simpson, Lil Nas X, Robert Ellis, Father John Misty, Old Crow Medicine Show, Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, The Texas Gentlemen, etc. I'm sure others can suggest more and some will dispute some of these. I make no claims that any of these people won't turn out to be bad guys later. After all, I do still kind of like that David Allen Coe song about being drunk the day his mom got out of prison and he went to pick her up in the rain, but before he could get to the station in his pickup truck she got run over by a damned old train.

[-] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Some modern country is also great! Tyler Childers has multiple songs about fucking around and being a cokehead in Kentucky (he's thankfully clean now). Then there's his Country Squire album that's very fun to watch videos from while stoned. It's like some southern Yellow Submarine.

Zach Bryan released an anti ICE song that I can't currently remember the title of for the life of me.

If you want more folk, Haunted Windchimes, The Ghost of Paul Revere, and Poor Man's Poison are all excellent, with Poor Man's Poison just straight up having multiple leftist as fuck songs. More mainstream you'd find Noah Kahan, who's done some excellent music. It's more pop folk than normal folk, but I'm still a fan personally.

Basically, just avoid artists like that whiny little bitch boy Morgan Wallen or basically any of the mainstream musicians from the 80s to the 2000s and you can find some actually good shit.

Also, both are mainstream, but Travis Tritt's Trouble and John Michael Montgomery's Sold are both absolute bangers.

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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Johnny Cash was his own genre.

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[-] cm0002@literature.cafe 5 points 1 week ago

I find actual classic country to just be boring, but not boring with a beat enough for work music like Classical music.

The modern country stuff I loathe for just like you said, being Republicunt siren songs lol

[-] zout@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

drinking shitting beer

Please keep this in, it's hilarious!

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[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I'd love to be that dad, but my daughter only listens to k-pop

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[-] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

"i love all music!"

"doubt"

"i do!!"

"ok here"

"..."

"that's what i thought"

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

Or give them Igorrr, which literally contains all music...

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[-] West_of_West@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

I don't know, the drums and guitar is pretty sick in that song.

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[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

"Yarrr, add it to me playlist."

[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

My kids told me about how they love something called phonk or something. I got excited, because I thought they said "funk". I was very upset when they put on their phonk "music". I was expecting something akin to Sam and Dave or earth wind and fire, but what I got was a cacophony of dying animals and a back beat so horribly off tempo that I couldn't be sure that it was actually part of a song

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago
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