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These are to current U.S. Top 20 Billboard Single Charts and I'm not familiar with half of these songs/artists. How many of these tunes have you heard? Multiple voting option.

I've only heard one: Cee Lo Green

None.
Don't know any of those songs

I've heard of most of the musicians (?) but the only ones I'd recognise if I was walking down the street and saw them would be Rhianna, Adele and Pink.
Maybe Lady GaGa if she wore something attention seeking, like the limelight whore she is.  :lookingup:

I've only actually heard one of those, and that is only because it got so much TV coverage (Born This Way).

With three young people in the house and music playing all the time, I can only assume my family does not listen to what is 'big' in the US.  Some of the artists' names are familiar - that's all.

None.
And I'm so glad for it.

Lady Gaga and Ke$ha songs.  Ke$ha is almost as bad as Rebecca Black.

I haven't listened to mainstream music in something like twenty years. I don't listen to the radio and I don't have cable.

That being said, I listen to new music all the time. I'm always seeking out new artists and buying/checking-out albums released in the past few years. I just don't listen to music I don't like, hence I have only heard "f**k You" by Cee-Lo Green.

"f**k You" is a great song.

I recognize a few of the names, but haven't heard any of those songs.  At least not to my knowledge.

Haven't heard any of them and haven't heard of half the artists. I'm pretty sure I'm not missing anything even remotely decent.

Nope.

Familiar with singers but no songs by any of them. 

Quote from: Flick James on April 04, 2011, 01:34:45 PM
Nope.

Then again, I've never been "up" on today's music. That would require me to be well-versed in what's hot. Something I've never been very good at.

I've heard two but not really by choice...they just happened to come on TV when I tuned...the Gaga and Black Eyed Peas songs. Didn't really care for either though.

Heard of some of the artists, none of the songs.  I don't think I'm missing anything anyway ...

Like others, I'm familiar with some of the names, but I haven't heard and of these songs and I'm glad about it. Popular music - especially the 2000's era, has been hideous, not that I try to keep up with the times, but we are really bombarded with this utter s**t on a daily basis and that really sucks.

I have no idea if I've heard any of those songs so I voted "none."  Pop music just goes in one of my ears and out the other.  Except for "Friday" by Rebecca Black.  I've come around to believing that it's a work of inspired inanity, the musical equivalent of Ed Wood.

"Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
Today it is Friday, Friday
We, we, we so excited
We so excited!"

I am pretty update with music and I'm pretty willing to listen to almost any song out there at least once.  Only one song recently has ever ticked me off with how bad it was The Big Bang by Rock Mafia.  The voice on the singer and the fact the music can't distract me is horrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1MeaYHCxnI

For those of you thinking they aren't missing anything, give F**k You at shot.  It's shockingly extremely catchy and pretty fun.  I even love the music video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU)

Of course you'll have to go the site of course for the song.

I'm fairly familiar with all these songs.  I voted for most of em.  I tend to stay pretty current on today's music.  A lot of it, I tend to hear when I go out to various clubs/bars and whatnot.  Plus, I'm fairly young so I'm kinda in that 'demographic', so to speak.  Plus, I'm a big fan of "Weird Al", and he tends to parody a lot of the current music, so when I hear one of his parodies, I tend to check out the original to familiarize myself with it.

I've only heard the Cee-Lo Green, Bruno Mars, and Adele songs.  I like the F-You tune.

I've heard of a few of the artists but don't know any of the songs.  Can't say I'm sorry about that either.

No-I have a radio-but I listen to the "oldies" staion.

nope, I only listen to either Sublime, Century Media artists, or Avantasia! :teddyr:

aparently, i'm not up on new music. never heard any of these songs or half of the groups for that matter.

if CCR or Seger doesn't do it , them i'm just lost

'course i'm just about lost on anything new these days

but that's just me

Never heard of any of these songs.  Don't think I have to, to know that they suck.

None (although, I may have heard a couple of them by accident and just didn't realize it).  My iPod consists of about 90% 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s music and only about 10% older or newer than those 4 decades.

As soon as I saw the subject headline, I knew what my answer would be. "No." As I stopped listening to popular music on the radio sometime back in the '70's. So, I was somewhat surprised I had actually heard one of the songs in the poll Kathy Perry's "Firework." Though it'll never get on my list of favorite songs.

Quote from: retrorussell on April 07, 2011, 03:51:04 AM
Never heard of any of these songs.  Don't think I have to, to know that they suck.

That Cee-Lo Green song doesn't suck.  Give it a listen. :wink:

Quote from: HappyGilmore on April 07, 2011, 09:35:53 PM

Quote from: retrorussell on April 07, 2011, 03:51:04 AM
Never heard of any of these songs.  Don't think I have to, to know that they suck.

That Cee-Lo Green song doesn't suck.  Give it a listen. :wink:

True. It might be the only good song on that list.

I think most will agree though, that "mainstream" music has declined greatly in quality over the last two decades. There's no real substance or genuine musical talent within most of it, nearly all of it is over-produced using the same formulas and no new genres/styles have been created that dominate the charts or influence other artists. If you sell millions of records these days, it's basically the rubber-stamp to say that you suck for sure.

Quote from: Circus Circus on April 08, 2011, 04:32:00 AM
I think most will agree though, that "mainstream" music has declined greatly in quality over the last two decades. There's no real substance or genuine musical talent within most of it, nearly all of it is over-produced using the same formulas and no new genres/styles have been created that dominate the charts or influence other artists. If you sell millions of records these days, it's basically the rubber-stamp to say that you suck for sure.

I think pop music is in a major funk now.  A lot of electronic dancy type tunes.   Few years back I could pick out a song or two that I like but now its just painful.  Especially with artists like Kei$ha. 

I have to say that I do like Adele, I just typed the song into youtube and I do know it just didn't know the title.

And it's good. She can sing.  :thumbup:

Quote from: Circus Circus on April 08, 2011, 04:32:00 AM
I think most will agree though, that "mainstream" music has declined greatly in quality over the last two decades. There's no real substance or genuine musical talent within most of it, nearly all of it is over-produced using the same formulas and no new genres/styles have been created that dominate the charts or influence other artists. If you sell millions of records these days, it's basically the rubber-stamp to say that you suck for sure.

I don't know.

One band out today I like, I don't know if they're 'mainstream', but the band Arcade Fire.  They won a Grammy for album of the year and most everyone was in shock cause it wasn't a huge seller or a widely known artist that actually put out a decent album with thoughtful lyrics. :buggedout:

Quote from: Circus Circus on April 08, 2011, 04:32:00 AM
I think most will agree though, that "mainstream" music has declined greatly in quality over the last two decades. There's no real substance or genuine musical talent within most of it, nearly all of it is over-produced using the same formulas and no new genres/styles have been created that dominate the charts or influence other artists. If you sell millions of records these days, it's basically the rubber-stamp to say that you suck for sure.

I actually think pop music sucks in every era.