[Kye]

>> "Modern music has regressed into something primitive and tribal. In other words, completely mind numbing garbage. And it just gets worse every year."

The blending of hip hop into everything has been a huge boon for the evolution of western music just like the merger with jazz was in the '50s.

"Primitive"/"tribal" people had some good ideas that sometimes get lost in our panicked attempts to set ourselves ever-further above our roots.

[mwcampbell]

> panicked attempts to set ourselves ever-further above our roots.

I honestly don't know what you're talking about here. What's an example of such an attempt that you think was/is misguided?

[Kye]

See: the quote in my comment.

codesushi42 frames tribalness and primalness in music as a regression.

[codesushi42]

Yeah, who needs sophistication anyway? Let's go back to painting caves and naval gazing.