It was dull until Gaga came along and injected life back into the industry, she made it fun again. She most certainly made pop music videos a cultural event again that the masses look forward to. Hopefully her next era will be reminiscent of TFM era.
This is my impression. This stuff, for better or worse, is incredibly infectious: “You’re . . . so . . . hypnotizing,” “. . . would you hold it against me????” — get this stuff in your head, and that’s it for the day. Yet after listening to this . . . it’s so empty. You don’t feel good about yourself. You don’t feel good, period.
I started to feel this way exactly since 2010. Pop music went down and simply stopped interesting me for the most part. I agree that this year and especially this month has been so insipid musically speaking. It makes me feel sad and frustrated sometimes.
Radio has been dominated by dance music every song on the radio sounds exactly the same. Which is maybe why Adele has been so massively successful. Pop Music is BORING lately only because everybody is doing exactly the same thing. Do I even need to name names?
I've been wondering when hip-hop is going to make a comeback and I think J.Cole is the one who can do it.
Lady Gaga. She’s the only one who got BETTER the more I listened to her, whose songs have the power to surprise, whose lyrics are good but also whose music goes into different directions,