Originally posted by Buttons:[..]
Would you care to elaborate what you meant ?
Of course. I was just agreeing with Drew*, in that I've never been particularly taken by bands such as Bastille and Mumford & Sons (can't comment on Imagine Dragons), and much of what I hear of contemporary music does little for me.
(*please note that I didn't follow the thread all the way back, so may have misinterpreted something - it's been absolute eons since I was last trawling these boards so I'm out of practice...)
Perhaps it's overproduction, perhaps it's the feeling that artists are now intentionally going in to try and be different OR try and make stuff that sells (or are being pushed to make stuff that gets the widest audience). I'm an old fart in such things, but I've always preferred it when you get the genuine feel that bands are just doing their own thing, and it's probably not helped by a loss of faith in popular music (that's turning me into a cynical old fart). Probably put it down to my rose-tinted view of the good old days, but I have my doubts that bands like the Ramones, Sex Pistols, U2 etc. would have been given the chance or the backing to do their own thing had they been started out in today's industry. Calling it an industry also bugs me, but that's another discussion!
The only band I've got into recently has been HAIM - I get the feeling that they've just gone out there and made the music that they wanted to write and perform. You could certainly argue a case of overproduction (comparing the album to the demos - but 'twere ever thus, I guess), but I always feel that they were always the driving force behind the end result.
That said, I like Whitney Houston's work, and I doubt she wrote most of the music on her albums!
