I was born in the very early 80s so perhaps a bit late for the MJ craze. I like earth song - that was a good project - but I wouldn't call myself a MJ fan. Just like I wouldn't say I'm really a Madonna fan but I love
Ray of Light.
Honestly I've been quite picky with music growing up and I do continue to be. Only things like REM, Green day(? dookie?), Nirvana, similar quality female fronted bands (Placebo...) really did anything for me in the 90s. In the late 90s I got into D&B, some
hip hop (not the mainstream stuff), Ninja Tune, Big Chill, Mixmaster Morris, Chemical Brothers, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Red Snapper, Adam Freeland, 4 Hero, Jazzanova err that kind of thing. I even had a radio show for some time in Uni in the late 90s. People
got me into stuff like this!
These days I am more than happy to associate with a lot of
mainstream DJ and
artists. It's like the quality has percolated to the mainstream (well maybe 20% of it) and no-one's really noticed if you know what I mean? I'm still not a big Ed Sheeran fan or whatever but even that is 10x better than most of the early 90s, unless you were WELL into the chill / dance / rave scene at the time (and even that's aged badly). Music has honestly never been better.
Given that, even mediocre music
can come alive at the hands of a good DJ / VJ and they can throw the odd cheese tune in and make it work somehow in the right space. I have no doubt that thanks to the likes of Giles Peterson, Radio 1 (generally), and evolving musical taste things will and do improve. I also have my pop/rock diva sweethearts [Evanescence, Avril, Katy, Paramore, Taylor, Natasha, many I forget] that I really appreciate. It's not easy to put together an album like reputation for example, even in 2017.
Sting/Beatles/Grateful Dead/Robbie Williams/most of X factor/Justin Beib/Eminem/whatever meme musician like Kanye or whatever? No thanks. We've done MUCH better before, were you NOT PAYING ATTENTION?!
And I do encourage you to look up some of the artists I named positively.
Bring on the
GOOD music!
edit:
classic and on the chill side of good for me. The album is IMMENSE. Talk to me about music I love it
edit2: one of
the most influential tunes in
my musical journey in the 90s.