This thread was always going to be a dumpster fire...And some of us just love to watch the world burn.
When I read that, I just imagined the forum members being a group of Corey Feldman clones but with green hair all shouting in unison "New music sucks! But we secretly enjoy it when our imaginary kids/grandkids blast in upstairs, it ruins our sleep in the basement" then using their imaginary wife's lipstick to spread a red smile on their face
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain!
Classically trained musicians have only gotten better through the ages, even without discipline. Again, comes down to the information available, new teaching methods, new devices, new sciences PM music theory. No different than someone here saying "Look at these clowns they have coming out of college and getting jobs as dentists and orthodontists! Like hell I'll let them take the job of MY dentist who has 40 years of experience and has been my dentist for 20 years!!!" And yet, that dentist without any experience is better because of new methods and scientific research into that. It's really no different than music today.
We see more and more younger classical guitarists with more ability, better ear, quicker hands and more precise fretting than has ever been on record before. Like the video that another member posted, they are able to start younger and younger. I'm not saying that a newborn will be able to play out of the womb, but there's no doubt that someday in the far future, there may be some chip implant available for such a baby to recieve all the knowledge of any subject. It's not too farfetched.
I agree with everyone here, the biggest nosedive in the history of music was from 1940's to the 50's, 60's, 70's. We went from having the most complex Jazz pieces to rock and metal.... Less brainpower and education and more drug use "I gotta be high to play this thing". I'm glad we aren't really having that.
I don't know it was the first, but it is almost certainly the most egregious lol. No disagreement here, which makes it all the more surprising 2024 might put 3 Country cd's in my rotation. That's probably a tie for the last 20 years combined.
My favorite era of Country is definitely 90's to early 00's, seems like the purest and most sweetspot years for country and we got to see the rise of country guitar heroes. Pete Anderson, Paisely, Urban, etc.
Late 2000's and 2010's for Christian music and song writing and skill level as well as "feel" hit the height of the genre's history. Nigel Hendroff, Michael Guy Chislett, etc.
