I'm right with you there
But dont vilify the technology or its creators because of what we, the public, have done with it.
All the great things that machines do, were once the domain of man. Ploughing and reaping the fields was done by hand, and oh how the labourers complained when they were usurped by machine. We are all still Luddites...
I know music is a bit different, but its the millions of wannabe kids, X Factor, Guitar Hero and the like that have successfully destroyed it. Up until fairly recently, music sounded like well, music.
Since Skrillex and their peers, pop music is a bunch of rehashed bleeps and burps, but the core of songwriting is still there with those who pick up a guitar and play a melody to some words they've made up.
You'll never destroy that, I'm also a competent guitarist and surrounded by people from all generations that love listening to even modern music played on a guitar. I play everything from Coldplay to Metallica plus my stuff.
Anyone who can play an instrument and has respect for the sound it makes will agree that music isnt dying at all.
What is dying is the music industry, all the fakery and pretense thats based on the bleeps-and-burps formula of 'music making'.
Its been a great ride, from early Rock and Roll through Stock, Aitken and Waterman to Eric Prydz, but because its a formula for making money and not for true creativity, its finally sucking up its own ***, and good riddance to it. I doubt it will actually go away though, it seems to be turning into the same argument as Pro Wrestling; real, or entertainment.
I say real music will never die, because its not done for money or to a program, its done to please humans.
