I agree. I think kids are DEFINITELY missing out now on QUALITY music as so much of the Justin Bieber, Brittney Spears influenced plastic " soft pop " is just SO shallow. My God- this music is dangerous to their mental health !
I mean you think of the musical geniuses we had in the 70's coming up- Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Rush, Led Zeppelin- from the 60's Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Rolling Stones, I mean- come on ! - all kids have nowadays are other young kids competing on these singing shows as singers. It's what is pushed in the media- and granted there ARE some really talented singers in those showsI agree - however much of it is still shallow bubble gun pop music which I guess a lot of the masses like.
There are some really good younger artists coming up - Mumford & Sons are decent - and there are a lot of alternative bands I really like but they don't seem to make a dent in mainstream media because mainstream media is always pumping out generic easy listening pop music.
Back in the day in the early 1970's if you read about how Led Zeppelin was trying to get accepted the mainstream critics did EVERYTHING in their power o discredit Zeppelin's success ! Because they were fusing old time blues with heavier electric guitar sounds - critics dissed them because they couldn't categorize them, or define them in a neatly little fitting box so critics being pissed off about that just chose to diss Zeppelin. Because they didn't understand their music. But Zeppelin had the last laugh as they chose to put out their albums THEIR way , refusing to release the song " Stairway to Heaven " as a single so the public would hAVE to buy the Led Zeppelin 4 album in order to become familiar with Zeppelins music ! It was a way of fighting the critics back on Zeppelin's part and winning the battle about being " categorized " by public opinion. I really admired Led Zeppelin for calling their own shots and dictating to the critics and record companies themselves on how they'd run their shows and careers. I felt it was genius of them in fact. Now - they are one of the biggest selling bands of all time to this day !
So my point is ( sorry for the detour in my little bit of rock history ) is that young people are being CONDITIONED in our society by the mass media popular artists to listen to and don't dig deep enough to find the artists out there that are really great, but just still under the radar. If that makes any sense. Just my 2 cents
