The Beatles Bible - Topic: Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

BluemeanAl on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:37:51 +0000

I think that I'm snakebit trying to post a reply to this topic. Two different responses that I've written on two different days kind of vanished into the ether before I could post...so one more try?

It's pretty easy to get depressed about the state of popular music because, yes, 99% of what's popular now (and this has been true for a very long time) is really bad. Or at least I think it is, given that I actually listen to so little of it. I wouldn't know a Bieber song if I heard it, and I've seen about 10 seconds of the Gangnam dance ...

Zig on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:01:35 +0000

Gerell said
I am waiting for the day that the next generation comes and would tell my generation that our music is crap.

It happens to just about every generation.

The cool thing with me is that I love the music my parents loved when they were young. It just so happens that the acts they liked (Eddie Cochran, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Fats Domino, etc...) were a huge influence on my favorite band. Mom is the same age as Ringo, Dad is only 2 years older.

What's not to love?

bikelock28 on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:34:26 +0000

And remember that the Beatles were once dismissed as "75% publicity, 20% haircut, and 5% lilting lament,"....not too dissimilar to how we ould describe Bieber/ One Direction/any of the endless Youtube-discovered/ Simon Cowell-manufactured artists around these days.

As for Gangnam Style that's 5% publicity, 95% silly dance.

meanmistermustard on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:48:17 +0000

Music goes in cycles. Something will come that will break the tedium of crap that is shoved down our throats. Music was pretty dreary before The Beatles came along so there is always hope. The same can be said when Oasis broke thru in the 90's, there were good bands and artists around but the scene overall was dull, the same as now.

Lets not forget that Ken Dodd sold over a million copies of Happiness in 1965.

And there were people in the 60's shaking their heads at the arrival of the Beatles and the Stones and the Kinks and the Who ...

Gerell on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:25:46 +0000

I am waiting for the day that the next generation comes and would tell my generation that our music is crap.

fabfouremily on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:03:12 +0000

It´s when I look at the majority of modern music that I wonder if there will ever be a revival of quality music. Will, one day, there be good, talented and not entirely money and publicity-driven artists that create good music that will last? Because I feel, quite frankly, a bit depressed about the whole music industry as it is today - there´s nothing, no-one, come about recently who I feel is worthy of my money, worthy of gaining international stardom, and that, to me, is really quite sad.

thewordislove94 on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:25:11 +0000

smoledman said
Combined have a total of 1.9 billion Youtube views. Does this signal the end of everything?

If everything means the end of the world, then no. If it means the end of good modern music, then maybe. What it does end is my tolerance for Justin Bieber and my sanity.

Egroeg Evoli on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:59:55 +0000

SatanHimself said
1. Metallica, Metallica (akaThe Black Album) (15,845,000)

Hey, that's a Beatles reference, isn't it?

smoledman on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:01:48 +0000

I find it weird that the music I like the best is often sold in the 100s of copies.

mja6758 on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:33:02 +0000

I always liked Bill Hicks' line about music in the charts in the early 90s. "When was mediocrity a good example for your children?"

meanmistermustard on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:23:21 +0000

Adele has the most traded cd from Christmas Day this year, bought as a gift but unwanted and so gotten out of the homes as quickly as possible in exchange for cash. One Direction are also in the list, i can see the horror in some 13 year olds face when opening their gift and seeing that crap. Same with books. The Da Vinci Code is one of the biggest sellers ever but go into a second hand shop and youll find 17 copies

To be fair to Adele her albums have sold skiploads and are still doing so - not that i can ...

SatanHimself on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:59:23 +0000

I will never understand the British music charts. Ever.

But even if you look at the most recent list of all-time best-selling CDs, you'll see that musical taste means nothing. Here's the most recent Soundscan chart for just the U.S.:

1. Metallica, Metallica (akaThe Black Album) (15,845,000)
2. Shania Twain, Come On Over (15,524,000)
3. Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill (14,806,000)
4. Backstreet Boys, Millennium (12,209,000)
5. The Beatles, 1 (12,139,000)
6. Soundtrack, The Bodyguard (12,056,000)
7. Santana, Supernatural (11,732,000)
8. Creed, Human Clay (11,632,000)
9. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Legend (11,220,000)
10. NSync, No Strings Attached (11,137,000)

Now ask yourself... How many of those CDs are still owned by the people who purchased them? How many are consistent sales ...

meanmistermustard on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:41:39 +0000

Have been thru Mr Blobby being number 1, Gareth Gates being successful and One Direction winning a video award. We have a song called One Pound Fish which people bought and who can forget Crazy Frog (the memory wipe sadly never worked). If the end was coming surely any of these would have signalled it.

bikelock28 on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:27:02 +0000

*shrugs* Not really, neither of them are particuarlarly bad songs (in my opinion). They'll be forgotten about soon enough.

smoledman on Gangnam Style & Bieber's "Baby"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:26:31 +0000

Combined have a total of 1.9 billion Youtube views. Does this signal the end of everything?