What's real music?

[Jazzy Stardust]

A famous quote among music artists: "Only real music is gonna last".

So what makes music good music in your opinion? What do you constitute as real music and why?

 

[Joker]

Real music is something that makes you happy, something you can jam to without a care in the world. When you're down and cut on your favorite song, you're on cloud thirty-seven, just laying there. Real music is whatever you consider to be real personally, something you'll listen to no matter who says it sucks, sounds stupid, or whatever else people might say. Music is apart of your life, jam to it dude.

 

[BlacLord™]

Real music has soul, and can be felt.

Soul & Theme - they are the cruxes of real music.

 

[SMX]

real music is the music that lasts

 

[Jazzy Stardust]

Real music has soul, and can be felt.

Soul & Theme - they are the cruxes of real music.

So what about artists like Justin beiber? Is he making real music even though everyone thinks he isnt? I'm sure his music is felt by millions.

 

[Punk Hazard]

It's going to be different between every person. To me, real music is something that you can either feel, carries meaning, or both. Music is auditory, I feel like music where the lyrics aren't complete garbage but the beat itself sounds good, then it's still real music. This is why I enjoy Shabba by ASAP Ferg, but nothing Bobby Smurda or Chief Keef puts out.

Good music can also evoke emotions. Good music is something your current mood can be touched by, influenced by, or changed completely by. "Music can alter moods and talk to you."-Eminem.

Good music is music where the artist takes a piece of themselves that live on through their music and makes listeners go "Ya done did well" when the artist is dead.

 

[V h o]

Beat/flow and then lyrics imo.

 

[HENI]

this music

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[BlacLord™]

So what about artists like Justin beiber? Is he making real music even though everyone thinks he isnt? I'm sure his music is felt by millions.

Pre-teen and teen girls gushing over his cutesy-baby face and worshipping him is the accumulative substance of his career. The same kind of girls who have as much of a musical affinity as a concrete slab. They get so engrossed in him as a person, that they become starry-eyed by his music. It's not the same as really feeling, there's no real substance.

The lyrics are always so corny too, it makes my ears cringe.

 

[6thHokage]

Young Thug= Real music

 

[Magatsu Izanagi]

Difficult question.

I suppose everyone has their own conceptions of what "real" art/music/etc is. Among the majority, it would generally be a combination of content, appeal, and other qualities that show that the artist has put effort and creativity into their work that makes something good/real.

At the end of the day, if music comes from an artists passion, from someone's heart, then I think that constitutes as real music.

 

[Tobiramen]

Good music is quality music, such as what is made by someone who is lyrically or rythmically inspired, not someone aiming to obtain fame and fortune. Most music nowadays is forced just for the money.

 

[Jazzy Stardust]

Difficult question.

I suppose everyone has their own conceptions of what "real" art/music/etc is. Among the majority, it would generally be a combination of content, appeal, and other qualities that show that the artist has put effort and creativity into their work that makes something good/real.

At the end of the day, if music comes from an artists passion, from someone's heart, then I think that constitutes as real music.

But what if someone is making music they love. Yet no one else is feeling it? Is it still real?

 

[~Ethereal~]

Rock music.

 

[BlacLord™]

But what if someone is making music they love. Yet no one else is feeling it? Is it still real?

Depends on whether they actually have musical talent.

If not, no. It's like the people who audition for things like X Factor, some of them genuinely believe they can sing, when everyone else knows they can't.

But if they're happy, leave them be.

 

[Magatsu Izanagi]

But what if someone is making music they love. Yet no one else is feeling it? Is it still real?

That's where it gets tough

There's no perfect answer to that. I guess it would depend on what you value more: accessibility or the artist themselves.

Say someone makes a song about tickling their cat (only example I can think of atm, haha) and it sounds terrible. Some people will say it's trash because they don't like how it sounds, or they hate cats (subject matter). But some people may be like "okay, this guy loves his cat. I don't like the song, but I can see he really put his emotions out there, even if I may not share them".

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As is realness, I think.

 

[Netferarri]

Music which people can relate to, music that gives out a feel which you can connect to, a good song would always be capable of doing that, music is not always about shaking ur arse to a specific beat which most teenagers indulge on. No, not always, A sad song can have a person feel emotional, relate to, or just understand concepts from the artists perceptive, metal song can cause a person insides to feel like he just wants to get up and start swirling his head around to the lyrics and memorable riffs, how the artist describes the events from his personal experience or taken out from history, I'm sure holy wars and angel of death are two songs capable enough to do that to me and I'm actually a really calm person, I kid you not.

 

[BlacLord™]

That's where it gets tough

There's no perfect answer to that. I guess it would depend on what you value more: accessibility or the artist themselves.

Say someone makes a song about tickling their cat (only example I can think of atm, haha) and it sounds terrible. Some people will say it's trash because they don't like how it sounds, or they hate cats (subject matter). But some people may be like "okay, this guy loves his cat. I don't like the song, but I can see he really put his emotions out there, even if I may not share them".

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As is realness, I think.

Not really.

It's a simple "yes" or "no". There's no two ways about it. Who cares about whether this guys like his cat, you judge music for what it is.

Music is an abstract contained within itself like many other art forms (aside from literature) and therefore, you judge it for what it is and not by it's progenitor. You wouldn't glorify a crazed Mozart who had just lost his love if he had produced a screechy violin concerto and you certainly wouldn't glorify the piece purely because of it's intents and influence.

 

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[Jazzy Stardust]

@Yami no tensei: What makes that music good to you though bro? They all have different styles.