Fast forward to now, and her influence – and my appreciation of her as an artist – is undeniable. Everything about her seemed so painstakingly manufactured to appeal to kids of my generation that it felt pandering. I thought Lady Gaga would be a one-hit wonder when her debut single was released. But equally unappealing music dominated the charts when I was a teenager. I’ll admit, there are certain sounds I’ve come across from younger artists that I don’t particularly care for.
But that’s because time has moved on, rather than some rapid, global decline in musical quality.Īdele announces 2022 Las Vegas residency with live shows at Caesars Palace There probably are less pre-social media era artists making music right now than there were a decade ago. Perhaps these millennial artists who recoil at the expectation of making music geared towards TikTok and other social media sites are right about the dying breed part. We existed in the old school-ness of the industry that we grew up watching.” We came out before all the social media frenzies of like, ‘you’ve got five seconds to entertain otherwise, get out’. In an interview on CBC Radio in Canada, she said: “You know, I don’t think there’ll ever be that many of us again at the top doing it the way we were doing it.
You got a lot of lives in your hands and a generation to start”, T-Pain tweeted recently, pointing out the fleeting success of newer artists as if one-hit wonders haven’t always existed.Īdele also weighed in while promoting her new album 30, calling herself, Drake and artists of their generation “a dying breed”. “The way that artists are starting to believe that momentary popularity is better than longevity is super disturbing and really want y’all to think about the future and generational wealth.