This whole Jamaica/dancehall bullshit is the new Disco of this generation.
It will kill music for a decade before music finds its actual meaning again.
It is the inevitable, cyclical, purge. The one we don't actually want, but sometimes need, as a filter before a rejuvenation.
Just the way it happened after the 70's.
But there are a ton of good bands from the 70's
americans were 30 years too late to the whole dancehall shit, so they to suffer through it now
britbongs already got it out of their system
70's: Disco. Everyone boogies with no soul. Movements, but no meaning. No inspiration. Everything sounds the same.
80's: Disco dies. Rejuvenation. Inspiration in the aftermath of soulless boogie music begins. Talent emerges, new meaningful music gains a platform to hold onto.
90's: Buffer zone. Stagnation - but not entirely. Inspired lag. The imminent foreshadowing of a future soulless genre is in the making.
2000's: Protest era. Socioeconomic troubles. Talent stifled by further progression into uneasy feelings and fear - the need for an "instant/temporary high" arises.
2010's: Dancehall/Jamaica craze seeps in and then takes hold - this generation's Disco. Everyone boogies with no soul. Movements, but no meaning. No inspiration. Everything sounds the same.
2020's: The upcoming 80's of this generation. Stay tuned.
It's not even our fucking fault, it's Drake and his gang from Toronto that started this shit. Blame Canada, not the US.
OP was not saying that the 70s were bad but that Disco was the filter for the musical shift to the 70s to the 80s
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Jidenna used to be good. But now look at what dancehall (disco) has done to him with this piece of shit new song.
What you've literally done here is made up a bunch of bullshit off the top of your head and tried to make it sound intellectual even though you've provided zero logical arguments or made any realistic, sensible points based on actual music history. You've also stereotyped literally the entirety of western civilisation as apparent all listening to one type of music for each decade. That is the decades where you mentioned music and didn't just ramble some nonsensical attempt at a sociological insight.
It's pop music for dancing and partying, both modern dancehall and original disco.
Why are you trying to make it into this righteous artistic crusade?
Disco exploded in the late-70s because by that time rock music that had previously dominated the charts was becoming stale, uninspired, and just plain ridiculous, and it's the same way now.