There's a huge amount of survivor bias when thinking about old music. All the crap that never made it far is mostly lost by now; what's remembered and what's on the 80s playlist is basically the top pick from a whole decade, readily discovered for you and sprinkled with nostalgia from your childhood.
Also, in different decades, different styles were mainstream. Today you can find music for any genre that was popular in any decade and the best of it will also sound great; it's just not present everywhere or readily picked out for you. It's quite likely that you don't like the decade, you simply like the music style and didn't find the niche that is still producing it.
> All the crap that never made it far is mostly lost by now;
The Monkees were more popular than the Beatles, but you'll never get the Mojo magazine audience to admit that.
Re:Is old music killing new music?
by CuriouslyC on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:35PM
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Usually when people say this, they mean mainstream music is dead or dying.
Tale as old as time. Mainstream music has been "dying" for many decades at this point.
Re:Is old music killing new music?
by barbecue_sauce on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:37PM
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But thats a good thing.
Not sure what autotune has to do with anything. It's over-use in the top hits can be annoying, but who gives a fuck. You don't have to listen to that music. The vast majority of music I listen to, across a wide spectrum of genres, doesn't use it.