What do you mean by this?
that the music created by bedroom artists i find on youtube is consistently better than the "better-safe-than-sorry" music put out by most labels, both majors and minors.
labels aren't trying in any way to push the envelope. they will put out the same soft rock / pop garbage over and over again, and this goes for every style there is. even metal bands put out the same stuff over and over again.
i find radio airplay revolting. mtv makes me sick. not "ha ah fun joke *figuratively sick* " but actually ill. i feel sick when i listen to the radio or when i watch TV.
this also goes for most other media, like film; i can't watch for example, the bit in Captain America where Samuel L Jackson speaks. i have to skip it or it makes me sick.
sorry but it's just the same stuff rehashed over .. etc..
otoh on youtube you can get stuff like .. misteryguitarman .. vadrum .. pryapisme .. smoothmcgroove .. chiptunes .. barbershop / accappella .. terranoise .. scottbradleylovesya.. plus ofc a host of various instrumentalists, singers, media artists and musicians who make amazing music and often amazing videos to go with the music as well.
generally, if someone's managed to get to the stage where their music is being put on CD and sold in a shop, it's already stale.
ozzy's last "decent" album was No Rest For The Wicked and even that was kida meh compared to the two earlier ones. Van Hallen's latest "crtitically acclaimed" album is garbage, and so is Werid Al's "i have a number 1" album, and this coming from someone who had to endure years of jocks bullying me because he was all i used to listen to.
What else? Thicke? Shakira? Madonna? Bowie?
I love ScottBradlee's version of Timber, but hate the real version. Have you tried listening to the new Pixies album? spoiler: its revolting, together with anything FB has done after Teenager of The Year.
Even Daft Punk's album is just a hour and a half of boredom with two well produced, quite unexciting dance tracks. I like Tommyknocker's version of Supernatural but can't stand the original.
I really don't knwo WHAT today would be considered "good music" coming from a major, but sure nothing comparable to what used to come out in the past.
(Hardware Store and Genius in France were good songs, i gotta admit)
actually, you know what, i'm not quite done yet.
The sell-records-for-money business model is dead. I will not support it because both i don't want to and i can afford not to.
If a musician wants my money, i can listen to their music, and *if* i like it, go watch them LIVE in concert (where i expect them to be able to perform at the same level as they did on the album).
If the artist in question doesn't want me to listen (for free) to their album, then i won't go to the concert.
Yeah maybe today the records companies still make money out of record sales and promotions .. but it will end. And fortunately for the artists it will end, because the truth of the recording industry scandal is bad enough to wanton its own thread.
(source: go to the bookstore @ Berklee college, buy the books for the Music Business course, and read them)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWgs6dWoYM0