Is Music Really Dead? Or is it a generation thing?

Ok here's the deal. We all say music is dead with all the Biebers and Rebecca Blacks and what not. But is it really dead? Or do each generation, by instinct, just think the succeeding music passed their time sucks?
 
Beatles was deemed unbearable by the old guys back in their days but are now benchmark in music history. I hear a lot of 90's rappers (and fans) say hip hop is dead. But I've heard the same thing back in the Eastside v Westside era from the 80's rappers and that era turned out to be the best time period in rap history.  When Metallica came out, rockers before them branded them as too loud to be real musicians. But they are now among the standards by which the rock is measured.
 
With that said, I pretty much hate modern rock, rap and pop. But I sense I bias in it. I pretty much generally prefer mid-late 90's to early 2000's rock bands and hip hop artists than the ones that just began their careers in mid 2000's onwards. Thoughts?

You're just not looking in the right places. In my opinion, we just happen to live in a time when the best music is not the most popular, very much unlike music of past decades.

it's not dead, just look somewhere that doesn't show just mainstream stuff, all the mainstream music you see on Mtv or vh1 nowadays is just lame repetitive club music

You might have to look towards the independent side of things. I love older music just as much as the next guy but  I discovered more and more music from the 2000's and on. As I found more I found that I liked it not just as much, but substantially more than older music.

You guys are right. I still am a fan of non-mainstrem rock bands. Any suggestions for good indy hip hop artists?

You guys are right. I still am a fan of non-mainstrem rock bands. Any suggestions for good indy hip hop artists?

I think that music is much like clothing trends, it is all cyclical, but there are often lulls in music, or you get periods of over saturation(hair bands, boy bands, teen bop, gangsta rap, and T-Pain).  I think that you could say the people involved are not as talented as the people in the 70s through 90s, because it is so much easier for anyone to put out some music nowdays, and with auto-tune type songs anyone can sing, or pretend to.  In each era you just had to look through all the crap to find the worth while stuff......

You guys are right. I still am a fan of non-mainstrem rock bands. Any suggestions for good indy hip hop artists?  

You're just not looking in the right places. In my opinion, we just happen to live in a time when the best music is not the most popular, very much unlike music of past decades.

Ok here's the deal. We all say music is dead with all the Biebers and Rebecca Blacks and what not. But is it really dead? Or do each generation, by instinct, just think the succeeding music passed their time sucks?  Beatles was deemed unbearable by the old guys back in their days but are now benchmark in music history. I hear a lot of 90's rappers (and fans) say hip hop is dead. But I've heard the same thing back in the Eastside v Westside era from the 80's rappers and that era turned out to be the best time period in rap history.  When Metallica came out, rockers before them branded them as too loud to be real musicians. But they are now among the standards by which the rock is measured.  With that said, I pretty much hate modern rock, rap and pop. But I sense I bias in it. I pretty much generally prefer mid-late 90's to early 2000's rock bands and hip hop artists than the ones that just began their careers in mid 2000's onwards. Thoughts?

it's not dead, just look somewhere that doesn't show just mainstream stuff, all the mainstream music you see on Mtv or vh1 nowadays is just lame repetitive club music

Music is in a Bad Position in current years... 

It's personal preference.

You're just not looking in the right places. In my opinion, we just happen to live in a time when the best music is not the most popular, very much unlike music of past decades.

Music is in a Bad Position in current years... 

Record labels don't take any chances that's why new music sucks.