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Degredation of pop music industry
Posted By 90sAce
If you objectively compare it, the level of...

If you objectively compare it, the level of explicitness and overall tone is pretty different between an Elvis song and an Eminem song.

Just because some Puritans were offended who also think...
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Degredation of pop music industry
Posted By 90sAce
Grew up in the 90s. Discovered "old music" during...

Grew up in the 90s. Discovered "old music" during the 2000s. Strongly prefer 80s and before to most of everything made after 1991. Grunge is the beginning of the decline.

The raunch factor...
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Degredation of pop music industry
Posted By 90sAce
Even though I over-complicated it, my general...

Even though I over-complicated it, my general point minus all of the philosophical babble is that lower quality music has always been around, but I feel that today it's being more aggressively...
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Degredation of pop music industry
Posted By 90sAce
I was talking about net quality decline, which in...

I was talking about net quality decline, which in some ways crosses over with morals - since favoring entertainment over substance can have negative moral effects and "dumb people down" if they don't...
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Degredation of pop music industry
Posted By 90sAce
Yeah I'm aware that other music and award shows...

Yeah I'm aware that other music and award shows exist for those who care to look for it. I'm talking about changes in the mainstream commercial music industry primarily.

The good thing (and bad...
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Degredation of pop music industry
Posted By 90sAce
That was one aspect I discussed. Films for...

That was one aspect I discussed. Films for example like Saw because they rely primarily on low-brow appeal versus talent, substance, etc (graphic violence in the case of horror movies) - this is why...
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Degredation of pop music industry
Posted By 90sAce
...because morality is objective and culturally...

...because morality is objective and culturally universal, and transcends nations, cultures, borders, and deductive reasoning - that's the ideology which America was founded on, that's why we are a...
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Degredation of pop music industry
Posted By 90sAce
Re: Degredation of pop music industry

Forget to mention, even disregarding the actual vulgarity and talent- I'd say the substantial content has declined on the whole as well. (ex. Even in non-raunchy songs you'll have artists literally...
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Degredation of pop music industry
Posted By 90sAce
Degredation of pop music industry

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As a "progressive reactionary" I've been looking for a way of objectively measuring if and how standards in mass culture have declined.

My view is that as a rule, the more...