This is a thread to discuss where the EPIC pop music is? There are, of course amazing records out there. But where are the outstanding record?
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Britney Spears - Blackout
Nelly Furtado - Loose
Timbaland - Shock Value I
Rihanna - Rated R
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Is it because every melody was used? Is it cause there is no topic which wasn't in a track before? I'm just waiting for another EPIC masterpiece which is outstanding. What do you guys think? And name your really EPIC albums!
I actually think that the past 2 years have been pretty good for pop music... for the first time in a long time I'm listening to albums constantly even a year after release.
Yeah but i think that Blackout was the kind of music she wanted to do (at this time she fired her management and everybody) and femme fatale was great but her label doesn't want her to make heavy dirty dance tracks, they want her to still be a little bit baby one more time. blackout was her best album!
I actually think that the past 2 years have been pretty good for pop music... for the first time in a long time I'm listening to albums constantly even a year after release.
yeah pretty good - but i think not EPIC - there are amazing records with amazing tracks but not with tracks which are outstanding!
yeah but i have to say something about the born this way record: the first 7,8 tracks are really really amazing and then there are some really flopping tracks: black jesus? fashion of his love? the queen? i mean serious..i was almost feeling sick! thank god the epic edge of glory and amazing yoü & i ended the record!
I'm not sure I'd consider any of those albums to be epic, outstanding masterpieces (with the very slightest exception of FS/LS).
The only album I'd put in that category is The ArchAndroid. And it was only released last year. So yes, while it's a little more difficult to do something that's brilliant and unique when all the new ground in music has long been broken, it sure as hell isn't impossible.
Hopefully one of these day's one of these pop girls will put out a infectious pop album that can last us for years and never get old. Most of the music these days has been either generic, bland, or outdated.