This is such tired bullshit, I'm so sick of hearing this.
This kind of bitching and talking has been around for centuries. Every generation has the same spiel for the next or the current.
"___ is dead."
"___ was the best generation"
"___ these days just isn't the same"
"___ will never be as good as ____"
And so on.
This kind if closed-minded ignorant bias been plaguing mankind forever, and we still haven't learned how to deal with. As if people have collectively lubed up their heads with nostalgia and prejudice before shoving them into their respective anuses.
Saying things are bad or dead because the current doesn't line up with your personal standards of quality is so idiotic. Terrible.
That said, people who usually talk about how bad music is now don't actually know where to find "good" music anyway. There's so much good stuff on the internet that people don't know about, judging the state of things on what's trendy and what's playing on the radio now.
Gene Simmons is not unlike the older people of the 40's spouting about how rock'n'roll was the death of good music(and also from the devil) because they didn't like this new current take on what they were used to.
I listen to and appreciate a wide variety of music from a wide variety of artists from different decades and cultures, so hearing stuff like this really annoys me.
