"NEW" music rant!
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If you're bored of 'new music' then listen to old music. So much music has been produced over the last 500 years most people have only heard a small fraction.
Current popular music is a tiny pinprick in the overall scheme of music.
Classical music has a huge history and can be incredibly beautiful and express emotions that most popular music can't. The term 'classical' is only a small period as well. It's like someone called all popular music 'rock' there are other genres and periods within classical music – baroque, romantic etc,
Also by learning about how music works you will discover new music and start to reinterpret music you already know. If you study the theory then after a while jazz and classical music will speak to you more.
Jazz has an amazing wealth of stuff to be listened to in its short history, and there is always new things happening.
I agree that pop/rock music has become more generic, but remember that rock has only been around for about 60 years, how can you write it off already?
There's tons of great music out there, you just have to start searching outside your normal routes. Most of us on here probably mainly listen to western music, how about all the great music coming out of africa and south america? Indian classical music is some of the most complex and enchanting out there, it could take a lifetime to get your head around! Again, this music (like classical) is squashed into one genre: 'world music' which I find to be very patronising.
It's like, here's all the pop music we make here, it sounds mostly the same but we'll divide it up into thousands of categories – emo, screamo, grindcore, metal, numetal, trance, techno, house, hiphop, etc but it's all essentially the same western scales.
If you want truly new music, then got to jazz, contemporary classical or music from other places in the world.
And if after all that you are still jaded with the music available, then make your own. Play what you want to hear. There are only 12 notes! (or quite a few more in other cultures) so be creative with them.