Has the music world forgotten originality?

Today's music has the same beats, names, and lyrics as the past music. Everything sounds already "traveled": rap, rock, reggae, dance, you name it. I don't want to be a snob but any kind music of today of doesn't lift me. Only a few tracks I enjoy sound like masterpieces, yet that's only a handful. Maybe I should sink to a new low and listen to opera. Yuck!!!!

Has the music world forgotten originality?movie theatre

You refer to the radio I assume.

All the stations everywhere have been bought up and are now owned by the same three or four companies. Go to any city in America, and you'll hear the same exact songs and theme on every station. Even the stations that are competing and putting each others programing down are owned by the same company. It's all about marketing.

Try Internet radio stations, that aren't bound by these constraints, and specialize in unknown or independent bands. There is a lot of good stuff out there, that will never make it to radio.

The saddest thing about current music, is that there is no protesting, no opinion, no passion for or against the wars or government. Of course, this is because the companies who own the stations, own the white house... so you get censored, edited crap!

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Maybe you haven't heard enough, I downloaded limewire and since then I have heard music that never before i had heard. Try to hear a little bit of everything, don't get stuck in one genre.
yep, for the most part i would agree with you.

and actually opera is pretty damn entertaining, i've been listening to selections of it for years and i am still a spring chicken really.
Not all the new music sounds the same, but a lot of it does.

That's why I started listening to old school rap instead of this new boring music!
boardrooms are the slaughterhouses of creativity... and small labels can't compete... to be commercially successful you have to be familiar and average to win over everyone at the table...

there is plenty of good music out there, just stop looking for it in major retailers.
yes! i totally agree what's up with songs repeated the same words over and over again besides why do we care about a singers love life? old!!!!!!!!!! By the way don't dis opera just because you don't like it. Although i don't like it either
Not just music, but books, TV, movies.
No,music hasn't forgotten originality.It just has a had time showing it.
music originality's been on the decline since the mid-eighties.

Only choice is to go forward into the past-seek out the sounds that surface at music swapmeets and "used" shops. also discover the "underground" concert recordings and videos there!
Yes it seems all new bands copy styles from 70"%26amp;80"s bands. Many of them are just covers or just stolen music from another song then ad that some drum beat they use in almost every other song. What ever happened to original music?
i believe that today's music is original..

.it is not my time era...i do like some of the hip-hop and club music i work out to some of it.....and I'm an old broad...though......

i love Motown blues billy holiday Etta James Elvis Presley soul......now to me that's music.........i didn't like the Beatles....rolling stones....Ozzie Osborne though his family and him makes me laugh and say hmmmmmm they all need help ...lol......its just another generations time to be creative some of it will last as long as the sounds we love did.....
The music of Brittney spears and other pretty faces without talent are not artist. Their music will not live on five years from now.

Try to find an artist who either writes their own music or employs poets with a unique voice.

Why Italy didn't put Eros Romazzotti on stage during the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, I'll never know. Instead we had to listen to the Village People and the over exposed Adrea Bochelli.