Buck Sexton
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
In 50 years, people will be like, that's a great song.
The music that's being made over the last 10, 15 years, no one's going to be like, that's a great song.
They're going to be like, what is that?
Did someone make that with a synthesizer in the room by themselves?
It's bizarre.
I would argue, and I'm going to get people fired up now, the 90s was the last time when there was great original music being produced across the different bandwidth of audio.
I would argue the peak of rock, meaning diversity of rock, was incredible in the 90s.
Rap
I would argue actually by far peaked in the late 90s.
If you go look at all the different rap artists, you could actually understand what a rap artist did back then.
My sons listen to rap now.
It's all this mumblecore stuff.
You can't hear anything the guys are saying.
It's absurd.
You go back and look at R&B, which I think is mostly overrated, but all of it peaked in the late 90s in terms of the diversity of music.
You go back and look at all of the different bands that put out great music, and since then it's collapsed.
And by the way, it's also collapsed in movies.
There's nothing funny that's being produced in movies anymore, I think, because they're all afraid of things.
On the music thing though, Clay, top music acts in the 90s,
were global superstars with tremendous cultural resonance.