Mainstream Music - Good or bad?

[Jason76]

Some say you have to be a rebel to make good music, But then again, music is highly subjective. People like what they like - and enough people like mainstream music to say "So what?".

O.K. a lot of criticism has been layed at modern country music - especially since it claims to be country - when really it's country-pop or country-rock.

Of course, it was the Eagles who were the Godfathers of Country-Rock/Country-Pop:

https://music.avclub.com/week-46-the-eagles-the-crackers-you-love-to-hate-1798222323

To Eagles haters, guitarist-singer-songwriter Don Henley and drummer-singer-songwriter Glenn Frey are the bad guys. They’re cynical opportunists who rendered country-rock sterile, lifeless, and commercial. They’re supposed to have stolen its soul by diligently removing all that makes country music country: pain, vulnerability, rage, defiance, humor, heartbreak, and the like. Something irreplaceable and essential was lost in the journey from the honky-tonk to the amphitheater.

 

[Mozzie]

With me, if it is catchy, ill listen to it. What ever it is. I am into Celtic and Nordic type music.

 

[Jason76]

With me, if it is catchy, ill listen to it. What ever it is. I am into Celtic and Nordic type music.

Yeah, definitely that's true - and that's why despite the mockery of music elitists - people like James Taylor have always sold records anyhow.

 

[Setfragil]

To me I do not see anything bad in mainstream music, I listened to any music if the tunes and rhythms are good no matter the opinion of the society on the music.