Today's music is garbage

[mamiwattagol]

Well, ganun na talaga since Millenials and Gen Z na ang usually kini-cater ng mga modern artists and producers ngayon.

[arze]

Hindi naman garbage, malamya lang siguro. Kulang ng "grit" sa mainstream

[Peter Bishop]

True

[LoseStreak]

May mga rare pa rin na maganda kahit papano

[KurosakiIchiGOAT789]

May mga magandang pieces of music pa rin naman. 

[bluzzman7]

On 3/23/2025 at 11:54 PM, arze said:

Hindi naman garbage, malamya lang siguro. Kulang ng "grit" sa mainstream

agree.

[Cris Ali Monger]

Disagree. Definitely meron at meron diyang kanta na will hit differently sayo. Mapa foreign o opm ang dami pa rin mabangis na songs hehe

[BlessThem]

I’m not hating on all music — just calling out what happened to rap and hip-hop. There was a time when the mic had meaning.

Tupac, Biggie, BTNH, Eminem, Ice Cube, 50 Cent — they told stories, dropped truth, and made every bar cut deep. Now it’s all mumble, flex, and filters — empty lyrics over lazy beats.

Even the local scene lost that fire — no one rhymes like Mastaplann, Francis M, or Gloc-9 anymore. Those legends had wordplay, wisdom, and real-life grit.

Rap didn’t die — it just got soft. 💀

[Nacht Faust]

Walang akong hinehate sa mga genre ng music. Siguro kakaiba lang sila gumawa ng kanta kasi nanggaling sa kanila mismo yan.

[Blxst]

On 3/18/2014 at 8:16 AM, ricardo23 said:

Today's music is garbage lyrics are too shallow,80's and 90's are better

 

do you agree?

No. Today's music has given artists more avenues to get popular, which means more artists that aren't held back by their labels. But that also means less polish due to lack of oversight.

The lyrics issue depends on what you're listening to, and what you mean by lyrics.

[Blxst]

On 10/26/2025 at 6:22 PM, Nacht Faust said:

Walang akong hinehate sa mga genre ng music. Siguro kakaiba lang sila gumawa ng kanta kasi nanggaling sa kanila mismo yan.

That's a good point. Newer artists are coming from places outside the "music label system" due to their not being signed, but their popularity being driven by social media and sound cloud.

[Blxst]

On 10/25/2025 at 12:12 PM, BlessThem said:

I’m not hating on all music — just calling out what happened to rap and hip-hop. There was a time when the mic had meaning.

Tupac, Biggie, BTNH, Eminem, Ice Cube, 50 Cent — they told stories, dropped truth, and made every bar cut deep. Now it’s all mumble, flex, and filters — empty lyrics over lazy beats.

Even the local scene lost that fire — no one rhymes like Mastaplann, Francis M, or Gloc-9 anymore. Those legends had wordplay, wisdom, and real-life grit.

Rap didn’t die — it just got soft. 💀

That's a double edged sword, the whole "rap is soft" discussion.

If you've listened to drill rap, these are literally the hardest rap songs because they're made by gang members talking about actual bodies they've caught. This then leads to retaliation once the song blows up either locally or beyond their local scene.

Alternatively, there are new rap songs that originate from the traditions of R&B which more openly discuss relationships beyond the whole "that's my bitch" discourse, which is a good thing.

 

Modern Eminem is mostly flexing his pen while not really saying much. Of course there are exceptions, such as "Rap God" which discusses the GOAT discourse.

 

"Lazy beats" is a thing, but that's wholly dependent on who's producing and perspective comes from what the rest of the album is made of. I agree there are a lot of "lazy minimalist beats", but if you're building an album, a turn down song helps control the pace, see any of Lupe Fiasco's recent albums where he goes hard lyrically in some songs to be followed by a slower paced song with a minimalist beat that lets his lyrics breathe. Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly has legendary production and stories where he told Sounwave to cut out instruments to declutter the sound of the production, transitioning it from ultra jazzy to a little harder and more concise. 

The thing that happened to rap needed to happen to evolve the art, and the unfortunate side effect is the emergence of copy-cats that jock the aesthetic without having a purpose to the production. So, I agree, but I don't see it as a bad thing since this is something that happens to all music (see: the opinions of rock vs metal vs punk fans)

[Blxst]

On 10/19/2025 at 1:33 PM, Cris Ali Monger said:

Disagree. Definitely meron at meron diyang kanta na will hit differently sayo. Mapa foreign o opm ang dami pa rin mabangis na songs hehe

Definitely, and it's a matter of whether or not you're paying attention to music or if you're just consuming what's on the top charts.

I try to listen to music as recommended by people through word of mouth or digging into forums and message boards for recommendations that Spotify or the Billboard hot 100 just don't provide.

[Blxst]

On 3/23/2025 at 8:54 AM, arze said:

Hindi naman garbage, malamya lang siguro. Kulang ng "grit" sa mainstream

 

On 8/29/2025 at 5:35 AM, bluzzman7 said:

agree.

 

This is just a product of music evolving. 90s brought hip-hop and R&B to the mainstream, this changed pop music, and that run has ebbed and flowed. Techno and electronic music gave way to dubstep, which influenced 2010's pop music (Bangarang, anyone?)

[Blxst]

On 3/23/2025 at 8:39 AM, mamiwattagol said:

Well, ganun na talaga since Millenials and Gen Z na ang usually kini-cater ng mga modern artists and producers ngayon.

It's also because they're getting younger artists that grew up on soundcloud music or generally lack the influence of more "classic" hits. There are artists out there that do not understand the impact of the diva era of ballads (Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Tina Turner, et cetera), but there are young artists that dig deep and grow to love these "classic" hits.

I think I saw an interview of a very young artist that does not even understand the impact of Michael Jackson. It's crazy to hear, but it makes sense when you think about how much music is being produced these days.