The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards calls modern music “a one-way toilet”

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Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has shared his criticism of modern music in a new interview, describing it as “a one-way toilet”.The 79-year-old musician opened up about the topic in a new interview with The Independent, explaining that he hasn’t come around to the current music scene.The interview came in light of The Rolling Stones releasing their latest album, ‘Hackney Diamonds’ last Friday (October 20) – their first album of new music since 2005 – and in the discussion, he criticised today’s hits as being too “synthesised”.“The only way to cut a band is to put the boys in a room and play and look in each other’s eyeballs,” he began, recalling how the members began writing the new LP. “Don’t get me going on modern-day music.

Push-button drums and everything is synthesised. Digital recording is a one-way toilet.”This isn’t the first time that the rock veteran has taken aim at the modern music scene and shared his criticisms of the current pop songs dominating the charts.Back in September, the legendary guitarist took part in another interview with The Telegraph and stated that he thinks pop music has “always been rubbish”.“I don’t want to start complaining about pop music,” he began. “It’s always been rubbish.

I mean, that’s the point of it. They make it as cheap and as easy as possible and therefore it always sounds the same; there’s very little feel in it.”He continued: “I like to hear music by people playing instruments.

That is, I don’t like to hear plastic synthesised muzak, as it used to be known, what you hear in ­elevators, which is now the par for the course.”In the discussion, he also shared his outspoken views on the rap genre, recalling that it sounds like “people yelling at me”.“I don’t really like to.