[twmiller]

I'm older than dirt.

Last week I watched 'Severance' on Apple TV. It was very good. Last night I watched the first episode of 'Tokyo Vice' on HBO Max and it was definitely good enough that I'll keep watching.

Sure, Billie Eilish sucks, but Wet Leg doesn't. (Apologies if you like Bilie Eilish, but art is subjective, not objective.) There's good stuff out there being made today, you just have to look for it.

[david927]

I try to keep a wide net in terms of what I listen to and I have a spreadsheet of the music that makes it past a certain threshold. At one point I graphed it and was shocked that the decades came out in this order: 1970's->90's->60's->80's. There is some good new stuff out there but it seems less of it than earlier. For example, where are all the one-hit-wonders?

We had the same argument yesterday in the thread, "Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?" People responded the same, "It didn't, you're just old," and cited examples of cool technology. But in my opinion, the answer was the same: it's not that it stopped, but the volume has dropped. I think we could look at data of innovative startups and technologies and see the drop off -- not in terms of lack of existence but in terms of sheer volume of activity.

By the way, your examples are funny to me because, while I like both Wet Leg and Billie Eilish, to me the former is really fun but it's Billie who is doing something innovative, with a sort of ASMR vibe. Try "Everything I Wanted", "Billie Bossa Nova", "You Should See Me In a Crown" and "Ilomilo." Use high quality headphones or speakers at loud volume. There's something there.

[moistly]

Less Billie, and much more her brother, IMO, who I believe is the musician: she’s the face & lyricist. His music is definitely something new & of quality.