what the hell happened to creativity,intelligence and imagination to this generation?

Pre-Madonna and during that time there were a lot more garage bands that made it big. After that, the music industry had an iron grip on who made it big. They created productions such as Britney Spears and Lady Gaga which were guaranteed to bring in the money that would, at one time went to Madonna or Micheal Jackson.

Bands such as Led Zeppelin who controlled their own money were, truly, revolutionary in their time.

Take heart, the internet is the perfect weapon against the music industry's monopoly. If you care to look, there is a lot of original music on the internet.
 
Im not sure many bands at all would compair to that genius but that is pretty funny.
 
I been thinking that too. Look at what on TV today ,junk and reality shows and any bonzo can get be on it. You asked a very good question .
 
I think the music industry tried to control the artists' creative juices too much and the artists get sucked into the temptation s of money and fame so they lose their true selves. maybe Iam wrong... remember, Ian just a deaf lady who can't understand music too well.
 
This generation is hooked on sugar, computers, cell phones/texting, drugs, etc. They've been taught that their goal in life is to be continually entertained and the schools have been designed to produce stupid, un-educated, illogical people with no creativity. It deadens their minds, removes all sense of purpose and makes them slaves. I can tell with myself how creative I am or am not based on how much time I've spent online.

I wonder if some also has to do with the type of music they're listening to. I've done some studying of the effect of different music on how we think and it is amazing what can happen when someone is listening to rock vs. listening to something with little to no drums at all.
 
One of my son "Raps"....and writes Rap....I sneaked a "peek" at some of his writings....unbelievable!....and the way kids talk today....Not much I can do about it tho'....but I do expect him to talk to me "normally"...will he outgrow it and grow up?....Only time will tell.
 
Grummer said:
how about 'dumbing down'?
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You hit it right the nail ! I feel the government is trying dumb us down so it will easier to pick away at our rights and be able to control us . Schools are no longer teaching student how to do cursive and I feel people should know
how to read and write cursive. People no longer write letters or talk on the phone , they send texts to everyone. And when I go the park I see more mothers busying fooling around with their smart phone and being clueless to what their kids are doing and not playing with them. I heard that this generation of kids will be the first generation to have poor social skills because their parents spent less time talking to them.
 
i think the day of the sound bites started under Thatcher/Ragen...my philosophy teacher said sound bites ended conversation that very sad.
if kids dont fit into the drones they becomming they put it down to some syndrome or other,what happened to inderviduality
 
Stuff costs too much to make and promote now compared to the old days. Not just music, everything: movies, games, TV shows. You need huge ad campaigns, and especially for visual media you need ridiculous special effects and setpieces which take a lot of time and money to make.

The result is that you need funding from a big studio or publisher to pay for all that, and they don't want to risk their money on something that the public might not like. Look how many very big budget movies recently have not done well at the box office: The Lone Ranger has made $150mil but had a budget of £225mil, Jack the Giant Slayer came close to breaking even. Don't forget World War Z, After Earth and now RIPD which just aren't doing well.

Over on games, Call of Duty is the biggest thing so every other game maker is trying to make a game like Call of Duty, and none of them have succeeded (Medal of Honor was terrible, as was the Call of Duty-style single player mode in Battlefield 3, while THQ's bankruptcy was partially due to how much they spent trying to beat CoD with Homefront)
 
Are you kidding? Making music and movies is waaay cheaper than it's ever been. It's now accessible to the average person. :D
 
did a five year old write that rap Gum...
i was teenager when beatles at their best Elvis still rocking Queen, David Bowie who used fullscap paper and surprise they wrote those words in real writing and fountain pen.
 
The problem is that when mainstream stuff does become a hit, it becomes a huge hit and makes tons and tons and tons of money, so they figure it's worth the risk, but to minimize the risk they can't make anything too daring. It takes a real gamble to come up with a new idea that might be a huge success, and for everyone who manages to pull it off, there's thousands whose idea might have been just as good but it just didn't capture the imagination of the public.

"Ahead of its time" is the usual lament.
 
metalangel said:
Stuff costs too much to make and promote now compared to the old days. Not just music, everything: movies, games, TV shows. You need huge ad campaigns, and especially for visual media you need ridiculous special effects and setpieces which take a lot of time and money to make.

The result is that you need funding from a big studio or publisher to pay for all that, and they don't want to risk their money on something that the public might not like. Look how many very big budget movies recently have not done well at the box office: The Lone Ranger has made $150mil but had a budget of £225mil, Jack the Giant Slayer came close to breaking even. Don't forget World War Z, After Earth and now RIPD which just aren't doing well.

Over on games, Call of Duty is the biggest thing so every other game maker is trying to make a game like Call of Duty, and none of them have succeeded (Medal of Honor was terrible, as was the Call of Duty-style single player mode in Battlefield 3, while THQ's bankruptcy was partially due to how much they spent trying to beat CoD with Homefront)
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The Lone Ranger was very popular and the producers made a huge mistake thinking it was still that popular today. I think if Jonny Depp had not use
his idea for Tonto and kept with the original Tonto maybe more baby boomers would had taken their grandkids to see the movie . This would had been fun for grandparents to show their grandkids what they grew up watching .
 
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