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Seriously.
Any time someone says that the 80's had better music, just ask them
what their favorite Menudo and Tiffany songs were.

People love to spotlight the worst of this week and compare it to the
best of an entire decade. Are we going to ignore the fact that the #1
song in America right now is by fun., a band who writes extremely
creative music and whose lead singer has a killer voice? Or that #3 is
Gotye? Or that the biggest selling album in years is Adele's 21? Or that Florence and the Machine, The Black Keys, Mumford and Sons, etc are all Billboard Hot 100 artists?

Hell, what's on the radio these days is mostly irrelevant thanks to
YouTube, Spotify, Grooveshark, etc anyway. It used to be extremely
difficult to build a large fanbase without radio promotion, but today
that happens all the time. Bon Iver and Arcade Fire are two of the
largest artists in the world, shows sell out in no time, and how much
radio play do you think they've gotten? "Yonkers" by Tyler, the Creator
was a huge smash hit last year with almost no time on the air. The #2
album on iTunes all week is Of Monsters and Men's debut album, an
Icelandic indie band whose entire tour is sold out even though the first
time they ever played in the states was at SXSW 3 weeks ago. For most
people even just a decade ago, the only music you were exposed to was
what was on the radio. You were lucky if you found the time to visit a
record store and find something you've never heard of that was actually
decent. This is completely not the case anymore. Artists put out #1
albums with no radio exposure all the time. This is a golden age for
music where millions upon millions of songs are available at our
fingertips. It's ignorant to look at what's on your local top-40 station
and think that's what the "current state of musc" is.

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