Comments by "A.J. Hart" (@cobbler88) on "Top 10 Music Genres That Died Out" video.

True. There are just as many "third wave ska" bands today, producing just as many ska hits. :)
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Yes. Whatever the gays are listening to in the clubs is the latest incarnation of disco.
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@katrinebumaltao7044 I'll stand by the "no soul" comment. Most Americans would recognize this as mostly just rehashed U.S. boy band-style material from more than a decade ago with the usual varying degrees of choreography and lack of anyone who can actually play a musical instrument. It's not the only genre that gets treated that way, by the way. In the U.S., a lack of instruments pretty much immediately puts a genre in the "lacking soul" box, whether it's modern dance music or 80s New Wave. Other countries likely have a different take on that. It's actually at a point where I'd say K-pop IS a return. It's just a return of something that was popularized elsewhere decades ago, with a K spin on it. And I'm sure it will come around again, maybe out of the U.S. or some other flavor-of-the-month country. That's not to speak poorly of any particular country. It's just that most countries don't sustain a long-term influence on pop culture the way the U.S. does. :) Take care.
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K-Pop is like any other purveyor of terror, though. If you kill it, you run the risk of it being replaced by something even worse.
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Not quite. But a lot of those front men died. Plus there's only so long you can cry about how shitty your life is while sounding constipated.
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@D4R34LGM0N3Y History would demonstrate otherwise. There have been times where the overwhelming majority of music played sounded the same. But the people doing it and the people listening to it kind of age themselves out of it and it disappears. Eventually people just need change.
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Hair metal always had a shelf life. It wasn't going to last much longer simply because of changes in fashion.
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Gordon Lightfoot still releases albums too. I guess the rumors of the demise of 70s-style Canadian folk have been greatly exaggerated as well?
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@Sad Boi We favor actual singing, but we'll settle for whatever is put out there.
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As long as you have people devoted to spending their disposable income on tats, gagues and piercings who can't dress themselves and haven't yet mastered the art of using a belt, there will always be nu metal.
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@katrinebumaltao7044 I wouldn't doubt the process is more complex than how other commenters have reduced it, but the result doesn't really seem to reflect that. A huge barrier to respect is whether people don't believe that a person sitting in a studio on a computer can't vomit out such songs on a daily basis, and pretty much anything so electronic suffers from that. And don't sell boy bands short. It's not like some pedo gathered up 5 or 6 randos, gave them some lyrics and had them playing malls the next day. Some of those groups had highly choreographed shows. It will die like everything else that in general has no real soul to it because in the end there will be nothing to grab onto or long for. Maybe the true test will be whether it's able to eventually come BACK.
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But whining all the time about it in song doesn't have a long, rich tradition. That's more of a "new" thing that sprang from grunge and bubblegum punk. Maybe - with any luck - kids are growing out of that and growing up. That's not to cast aspersions on the music, but genres like grunge sort of spring up because of a confluence of things - not just on their own because people have tired of Vince Neil.
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Third Wave Ska NEVER had a time in which the genre was broadly popular. For those of you who weren't around, we actually discussed AT THE TIME how we were being fed this narrative about how popular ska was, yet the only examples we ever heard were from No Doubt and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and there's not much "ska" in most of those hits. You're damn near as likely to get as many ska hits to chart in 2020 as you were back in the day. A few of these seem more like relatively short-lived subgenres and spin-offs (brostep, crunk) than actual large-scale genres unto themselves (hair metal, grunge).
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@arts1721 How do we stop third-wave ska bands? You do the same thing you do with fools. You just make sure they're nonsense is put out there and let the market do the rest.
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@Egilhelmson Some of THOSE are actually being pushed out by 80s stuff, I've noticed. But, to be honest, I don't see Bon Jovi stuff standing up as well as that older material. But I've also found that I have a lot of trouble giving full credit to things from the 80s simply because it's what I grew up with, so you don't view "Wanted, Dead or Alive" the same way you view, "Paint It Black."
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YT is not real life. The sooner people come to realize that reality is not reflected in YT and social media, the better we will all be.
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@alexandriaward5015 That was awesome when they said that. :)
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Except that the MSM will also try to prop up acts that no one really cares to listen to anymore. I can't count how many times Prince, Madonna, U2, REM and even Springsteen made the cover of Rolling Stone long after their actual music sales had dwindled and almost disappeared. Hell, every cover with the actual Rolling Stones on it that appeared in about the last 35-40 years is an example of this. I think both examples are just more reason to not trust what you're being peddled. There's always an agenda.
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I would welcome decent metal to return to prominents, but if I do 10 pushups today after having done one yesterday, I can tell everyone I did 10x as many pushups today as I did yesterday. Big increases usually mean the starting point was very low.
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