What happened to jazz?

Jazz today dominates about only 3% of the music market, and for some obvious reasons.

1. People differ in the way they listen to music. Some people listen to music for rhythm, chords, and feeling. Others listen to music to decipher the lyrics of a song to get the meaning of them. People usually change what they are tuned into song to song. On a Chinese song, per say, an American usually doesn’t listen for the lyrics, but more for the rhythm, chords, and feel. At the same time, an American listening to an American song, will most likely search for meaning in the lyrics. Still, people have a dominant side to themselves. A person will be dominant either to lyrics or rhythm. Sadly, as the years have progressed since the inception of the jazz style of music, people have progress from listening to rhythm into those who want lyrics. Jazz, though, has remained a music form which draws itself upon the formation of complex tones, and deep chords that can either attract or repel the ear. These variations make jazz jazz. But, with the majority of people listening for lyrics, these chords, feels, and rhythms go unnoticed. This repels people from jazz, as it has nothing new to offer from what they can hear.

2. Ever since the conception of television stations who deal with music, such as MTV, people have become less involved with the music that is actually being played, but more with the video being played. Now, if a song has a great video, people love it. The rhythm that reflects in the song is ignored, along with the lyrics. This kills jazz, for it isn’t a music genre made for fancy music videos, flashy dancing, or light shows starting epileptic seizers. It is a form of music that fuels itself off of those who write it, play it, and most importantly, listen to it.

3. Does the technology/digital age play a role in the downfall of jazz? Yes, it does. As people around the world become more accustomed to having information available to them at the click of a mouse, their ability to wait for information cliff dives. No longer do people want to stop and think about what they want to, or are doing. They instead want stuff handed to them now…no thought involved. Jazz, though, requires everyone involved with it to stop and think. This being against what is wanted, no one wants involvement with it, thus leading to its downfall.

Yeah, So that stuff kinda can kill jazz popularity.