This is what the music world has come to?

Michael Buble is being touted in adverts all around Singapore as the next phenomenon with some of his music playing in most elevators which have the advertising TVs places in them. While he sounds nice and genuine, he sounds an awful lot like the songs that my parent's generation used to listen to.

Sure, Robbie Williams has a number of songs of that kind, but not all of them. There are a lot of songs which are more modern and a pleasure to listen to. But most of the snippets that you will get to hear of Mr. Buble sound like they are from the 70s. If you ask people who listened to that kind of music, they would very much identify with it. If they didnt get to see him sing the songs, they would think this was actually music from their time and that he was an artist of their generation.

Now I have nothing against doing something like this, but I am just wondering where all the musical talent is going. Most of the songs are either getting remixed or someone is emulating a bygone generation. Where is the next generation of music? Where are all the melodies that used to pop up oh-so-regularly in the older days? Why are the newer songs sounding so much like the songs we heard more than two decades ago?

More and more often, I find myself listening to the older songs than the newer ones. Cause there are fewer songs now which I feel like listening to as often as these old gems.

That's a sad state to be in.