Is it just me, or does 90's and 00's music sound V

>>73809303
it's because a lot of 90s pop and house hits purposefully recycled Soul and RnB of the 60s as well as a lot of 70s disco/funk. A lot of metal of the 90s also incorporated elements of older blues rock and funk that had largely disappeared in the 80s.

80s music on the other hand, while also drawing from 50s music (there's a lot of new wave that sounds weirdly reminiscent of doo wop), was largely the result of an attempt to experiment and has a more distinctive sound as a result, even if a lot of it is very similar, whereas everything from the 90s onwards is a series of attempts to "modernize" old trends, with pure techno music being pretty much the only thoroughly new thing to come out of it.

So it was dated even at the time.

Not at all. 80s production is FAR more dated than the surrounding decades.

90s radio was shit.

>>73809303
80s production is way dated. The way vocals are processed, the way the synths sound, the drums, the bass, everything.

Listen to "Rock You Like A Hurricane". Every last dated, awful 80s production bit in one song.

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>>73809603
>>73809380

Not every 80's song numbnuts.

>>73809303
It's trends. We're in a period where pop is very electronic and plasticky, unlike the 90s and 00s which at least to some extent focused on "authenticity" and "real" instrumentation. I'm sure there will eventually be a backlash to synthpop and trap and "real" instruments will come back in vogue. Just might take a few years, but you can see the beginnings of it now already.

Because in the 90s and 2000s no one knew what the fuck to do with pop music anymore so they just ripped off stuff from other decades like orchestral instrumentation and dry bass guitars. That's why it comes out as old.