I Am a young musician not yet 16 but even I am amazed by some of the musical preferences of young people nowadays.

I write lots of songs and they are what I call mature, slightly old-fashioned songs. That's because, if I made modern music, I would be writing a lot of terrible stuff.

I'm not saying there isn't a single good band nowadays because this isn't true but, unfortunately, a lot have taken a poor route.

You have the rappers, who don't really have much musical talent and then you've got the rockers. I adore rock music in general but huge amounts of bands want to go out and "make a Nirvana" of themselves by copying the band. But I could teach someone who doesn't even play guitar one of their songs in two minutes.

The problem is most modern artists have an "I'll do something which dosen't require musical talent" attitude.

Nearly all of the music I listen to is Eastern because the only good Western acts are "old-fashioned", and there seems to be a huge problem with being anything other than new, hip and cool and this is a real shame.

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