New Rule: Music Materialism | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

I find it interesting that I’m always being told not to want money by people that have a lot of it…. Good message though.

Okay, millionaire boomer who lives in Southern California

songs about money resonate with children who grew up eating grass and living in mama's van.

edit: There's a thing called Maslow's hierarchy of needs. here in amerika we are all stuck scrambling for crumbs at the bottom.

I dont always agree with bill marh but when i do i do

What about warren zevons lawers guns and money

😮music porn gluttony

Everyone should just listen to Gojira

Good music still exists, you just have to find it outside of the top charts

What do you think happens when you Bill promote not having kids and support women just working for the man to earn a lot of cash just to blow it on unnecessary materialistic things. The key to happiness is to share that happiness with someone else not something else.

I got to say that one of the things I grew up with without even realizing is covert drug references. Some of them and some of the rising generation are more content with less because they are stoned.

attacking a generation because you find their music appalling is what our parents did in the 60s and 70s. I've tried not to be like my dad. he was a jerk. now you're being a jerk. you could do better

This is deliberately racist and sexist. He is basically passing judgement on Black men and young women.

Pretty sure ABBA made a pretty big hit called "money, money, money" in the late 70s

They do not care if they can afford it and do not care if they need it because they feel entitled to it!

The poorest people are rich people they never have enough

White people making excuses for why they're bad parents again. I grew up in the era of gangsta rap but i didn't go there and live it despite growing up in a violent neighborhood it's because my parents did their job. Do your job as parents simple as that.

Bill makes so very good points, and I am with him 100% but we have to acknowledge that Bill is just as guilty. He brags about his private jets and lavish lifestyle no less than the rest of he fellow pop stars and movie star friends. It's hard to listen to this even though he speaks full truth. It's just who they are.

Those brands are paying the artists to turn all of their music into commercials people will listen to. They’ve taken over our music and that’s why we have to hear this shit all the time.

(Boomer Translation) Maher: "These kids today and their dang music, why back in my day we..."

Maher accidentally refuted his own argument. His generation grew up listening to hippy sentiments, but did a 180 on that pretty quick, didn't they? Once Boomers became of age in the 1980s, it was all possessions and power all the time. Boomers made being a millionaire and billionaire cool again after their silent generation parents maligned greed for so long. You reap what you sow, and Boomers sewed the gospel of prosperity into every aspect of American culture; the idea that you could never have enough and didn't have to be ashamed.
And why wouldn't Gen Z and Alpha think you have to be a millionaire? Houses in major cities cost over $500K, and $1m is very common. Just a basic undergraduate degree from a state college can close to $100k over the time it takes to pay off the loans. Working a regular job has proven to be a fast road to nowhere is terms of personal wealth. Younger generations think that hustling is the only way to survive.
So, thanks for that former hippies.

Great message. (Even if it was delivered by a rich guy with a lot of material things.) So tired of all these songs that are basically saying, "I'm so awesome because of all the stuff I have." It encourages greed rather than generosity, and it makes people feel like losers if they can't afford expensive cars, clothes, and homes.

And look how many of those entitled artists bitched about not winning. Look at what this money influence is doing to young females. Drives them to do Onlyfans and porn. There is a concerted effort to brainwash and ruin the youth

Thank you

I like how Money Bag by Yano Miles is listed in the “recent offerings” iykyk 😂 started from the bottom now we’re in the middle

Mr. Maher most of the time I agree with you but in this case perhaps US society is reaching the peak of what it has built, the capitalist society that loves money. Despite being stupid and shallow, perhaps it is less hypocritical and falsely moralistic than making a lot of money by pretending that this is not the only thing that matters!
Greetings from Brazil.

Isn't Bill constantly bragging about flying private?

Of course its interesting that the people singing about all you need is love are quite well off and have no money worries

Sure, we could all use a reminder to focus on non materialistic things. However, the irony of telling other people this when you have a net worth of $140 million is …rich.

Stupid segment. Sounds like an out of touch old person… imagine thinking that every young person listens to the same songs he cites that arn’t even popular.

New Rule...fake eyelashes....nails.....and sadly unnatural hair. Just sayin😢

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I Like Bill, but this generational “young people suck” nonsense is getting out of hand. What about the song “talkin bout my generation?” Forgot to mention that. Each generation rages on the youngest as they age into oblivion.

And it’s rich (pun intended) to hear a guy talk about how you don’t need things talking from his ivory tower of financial security… the younger generations have massive material and financial loss compared to Bill’s generation.

So politely, kick rocks and stop “talkin bout my generation”’s faults.

But Liza Minnelli tho.... remember what she sang?

The woman in black is so full of filler and botox,she cannot laugh properly😑

Bill, try some Italian rock/pop music (not rap). Great music, great lyrics. It helps to understand Italian, but not a necessity.

"It was ugly. Very sexist. Very homophobic... And we were ok with it. Until we weren't.

And maybe it's time now? It's not to be ok with teaching your kid you're only as good as how much stuff you have."
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This episode was pretty good. But that last line was fucking beautiful.

What a hypocrite worth a 140 million with a materialistic thirst revenue flowing across many media outlets

Papa Roach..... .... Possessions. (Between angels and insects)

We did have “Pennies From Heaven”

Urban Culture has taken over the music industry. It lacks morality and worships materialism.

Satsang, Nahko Bear, Matisyahu, Mumford and Sons, Lauren Daigle. A few positive examples.

Bill never miss . He and his staff are phenomenal.

A rich man telling kids not to worry about money. Hypocrite. Not to mention that you are picking the worst of the worst. There is way more music out there and some from these very same artists that have more important messages. This old man is complaining about music the same way he rolled his eyes when old men of his day did the same thing to him. Maher has just gotten lazy and targets low hanging fruit.

He talks about "being real" but that woman cackling in the background being paid to do that ruined this video, so annoying, so fake.

Im so lucky my first musical obsession was Rush!!!

The part where he attributes historic injustices to today’s egregious rap lyrics is an example of Bill’s struggle to totally leave the left.
People like Otis Redding, Ben E King, Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Nat King Cole, and so many more also had lyrics valuing what The Monkey’s, The Beatles, Sonny & Cher did. And those guys ACTUALLY DID live through oppressions!

Anti-pop everything here with my 2 pennies: There's one genre where you don't hear about materialism (in general, there might be a rare exception) is punk/alt rock. The only that comes to mind is Mudhoney's "The Money Will Roll Right In" but it's performed with a lot of vocal eye-rolling sarcasm.