Modern Music makes no sense and has a bad influence on todays society

"Relationships to an extent are meaningful, but every single modern song that i have come across, talks about relationships and i did state that most artist do allude to other forms of relations like sexual relations which does have a bad effect on todays society. I believe that rap artists tend to do this more than pop artists and i think that there are just better things you can base your song on." Sexual relations are not inherently bad, different people see things like this different ways, it's entirely subjective just like the rest of your argument. "There may have been plenty of non-relationship songs but i'm pretty sure the vast majority of them are associated with relationships. This idea of relationships tends to become repeated and when something is repeated way too often, it loses its meaning." Sure, a lot of the songs in american mainstream are about sex, but since you never said we're talking about american music exclusively, we should include other countries' music. (Japan, Korea, European, etc) For every relationship based song there's multiple non-relationship songs. "Despite the recent advancements in technology, i think that many artist's talents are hindered by machines. If someone has the talent, they'd be willing to go that extra mile to create an amazing piece. Yes there are plenty of things in our everyday lives that are considered to be important yet simple, but i believe that this is irrelevant to the topic since the topic pertains to music. When it comes to music, there are certain factors to take into consideration such as talent, meaningfulness, passion, determination, etc. If there's no talent in a song, frankly speaking what's the point? why bother." The reason why talent should have 0 influence over whether a song is good or not is that music is entirely subjective. Millions of people enjoy simplistic good sounding songs, whether they're meaningful or not. The sound that machines can produce is desired in today's musical community, therefore they make music using them. "I'm using this song as an example of talentless artists in the mainstream media who still were popularized by today's society. This song in my opinion does not sound appealing. The lyrics apparently talk about how they "made it"in the real world or something along the lines of that, but there are other things to sing about which would be less boring (opinion)." Entirely subjective, as you even stated "This song in my opinion does not sound appealing" Other people obviously enjoy it, even if you don't. "Well that's what people do, we tend to judge things we come across and you can't really help it, but from what i know there were more bands in the past that had meaningful lyrics then there are today, and if there are bands that have lyrics like that today then i commend them. From what i've heard, a lot of it doesn't seem to make sense and just encourages people to do things that are considered unorthodox." There may have been more bands with meaningful songs back then, but there are still plenty of bands with meaningful songs. "My question is that if you have all the resources available and you have the talent, then why create something so simple and expect it to be a hit when you have the ability to create something way more powerful?" Because people enjoy simplistic sounding songs, even if you don't. Anyways, this debate isn't over whether modern music is meaningful or not, it's about if it's a bad influence on society and makes no sense. For the part of it making no sense, that's all you. Other people including me understand the songs that are popular in today's media, even if you don't. BOP is on you to prove this, as you are the one making a claim. [1] "First things first, most of these kids have barely scraped the surface of modern music, because they assume that modern popular music is all modern music, which is blatantly untrue, especially today. Thanks to the internet, experimental groups like Death Grips or Crystal Castles are able to find a decent audience because of today"s technology and people's willingness to try out experimentation in general. "Even if you're not a fan of experimentation, there's plenty of acts who make music similar to old rock that are in the independent scene like Unknown Mortal Orchestra or The War on Drugs. The amount of diversity in music in general nowadays is just mindblowing. There's a little something for everybody in today's modern music." This quote shows that modern music is incredibly diverse, and I'm sure you'll be able to find something that you like. People tend to forget that years ago there were still trashy bands, but it was harder to see them without the spread of social media etc. [1] http://www.ultimate-guitar.com...