My dad isn't on spotify. He also couldn't tell you what songs are on spotify. He also can't tell you what spotify is.

Even at that, he loves music and listens to it often. A lot of the music he listens to sounds very similar. Different artists, of course, but they all have a somewhat similar sound.

His friends his age also listen to those same types of songs for the most part.

He will tell you "Now THAT was when music was good!"

My grandfather disagreed. It all sounded like noise to him and it all sounded the same. His generation had REAL music.

It's the same rehashed conversation over and over...even here.

I have to wonder if early man/woman was banging sticks when they heard someone bang a few rocks together (first rock music) and were like "listen to that noise..." blah, blah, blah.

I think the BIG question here is when people say music sounds like crap or $h!+, who is spending so much time listening to fecal sonics that they have become an expert on it? And how are they not embarrassed to share their knowledge of it?

These charts do change very quickly. People really like to consume more of the same. The people that argue "this all sounds the same" are usually the same people who are listening to the same type of music over and over. What color is their black kettle?

Something that wasn't really mentioned is that several of those songs are by the same artists.

Also, I don't have spotify, but I did look on Billboards top 20 and know that xxxtancion (as an example) has 4 songs in the top 20. He was recently murdered.

All of that is neither here nor there for me. It is what is. There are many charts. To me, they are a great reference for what's popular and that's about where it ends for me. If you don't like it, why are you listening has pretty much been my motto. I also don't eat at places I don't like, or shop at stores that don't carry what I want. Not complicated.

If you are wondering what make those songs different, you already know. They aren't THAT different. Which goes back to, people want more of the same.

When the Beatles held spots 1-5 on the charts, was it because each of those songs was so different from one another? Of course not.

Man, that was a long ramble explaining something you all already know. ha!

Have a good one!

Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.