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

Since you didn't really post a format I'll just rebut your arguments, I know it's not the usual to have rebuttals in the second round but whatever. "My argument, is that music is not as sophisticated as it used to be. In Pop, most of the time the topic of the song is about relationships or alluding to some form of a relationship whether it maybe sexual, a genuine relationship or a breakup." Are relationships not meaningful? Love is one of the biggest driving forces in today's society, and therefore when something important happens in a songwriter's life, they may be inclined to write a song about it. In what way is this "less sophisticated" than older music (which also had songs about love and such). Also, there are plenty of non-relationship songs in the pop genre that come out, one example would be little game by benny. This song comments on gender equality and discrimination, and how it's becoming a huge problem in our society http://www.azlyrics.com... "It takes almost no talent to make and some songs are solely comprised of auto-tune and meaningless lyrics." First of all, just because something doesn't take as much talent as something else, it does not mean that it is less meaningful or makes no sense. There are plenty of things in life that are incredibly easy and yet incredibly important. Second of all, a large amount of music today DOES take a lot of talent. Even though many things are made with machines, it does not mean they are incredibly easy to create. This is a common misconception about technology and the music you can create with it, it takes time and skill to be able to make a quality song like this. "As for the instruments... or should i say instruments?? everything is digital nowadays, but that doesn't mean songs should be heavily modified with simplistic beats and simplistic tunes. See above, and just because something is simple does not mean it has no meaning behind it. Just as songs a long time ago were made with passion, songs now are made with a different kind of passion. "Artists in the 80s actually used their instruments and played it with passion, and tunes were often instilled so much emotion that it would be moving." Emotion is subjective, what you may find moving another might find incredibly dull. I personally find many of today's songs moving, even ones made entirely with computerized sounds. "An example of this would be Gary Moore's The Loner (a song). He was renowned for being a virtuoso and you can clearly see that in his songs. Lyrics in most songs in the 80s not only spoke about relationships, but wars in the past and famous events that had also occurred in the past." So just because songs back then talked about wars and past events means that they are more meaningful? There are plenty of songs today that talk about the artist's personal story and hardships they have gone through. There are songs that comment on CURRENT social issues, issues that to many are more important than past ones. An example of this would be Metallica and Iron Maiden . Their lyrics would not state directly the event that they are singing about, but they would allude to it and have their listeners thinking about the lyrics. There are plenty of bands and artists that do the same thing in today's music, you seem to just be judging the few songs that play on the radio. There are thousands of artists, all over the world, and a large amount of them actually make "meaningful" music. "Music today is often comprised of simplistic lyrics and it takes more than one writer to create a "song". Beyonce's "All the single ladies" took around 6 writers to make and the lyrics were way too repetitive. Bohemian Rhapsody was written by one writer which was Freddie Mercury. With such complex lyrics, i'm surprised that he managed to do that. Since Freddie Mercury actually worked hard to create that song, his result was one of the most famous songs in the world." Like I stated previously, a more difficult song does not equal a better/more meaningful one. Just because beyonce had more writers for her song does not make it less meaningful. "Music today also practically encourages kids to go out drink, smoke and engage in other activities which has led to juvenile activities." Sure, there's some music out there, but look at older music (mainly music from the 60s-90s). Back when the hippies were still around there were plenty of songs out there that encouraged drug usage. This has been a thing in music forever, and has no bearing on the music as a whole. Since I'm running out of characters I can't really post my argument in this round, but yeah. Sorry if some of this didn't make sense, I'm exhausted at the moment.