Have you heard any real, new, pop music lately? None of it is worth whistling!

Over the last ten years there have been occasional human interest articles that pose the general question, What ever became of whistling, no one seem to whistle anymore?
Movies were once filled with music that could be whistled to and many times the tunes were whistled in the film. Songs, once were on the radio that could be whistled. There is quite enjoyment of music now.
The articles speculated that now music is so easily portable with ipods and iphones, that people no longer need to carry a tune by whistling.
Whistling was also something mostly done by men. Has this gone because any whistle could be misinterpreted as a wolf-whistle and who needs the repercussion that could follow?
No. What is passed off as popular music now has no tune, no melody, no music. It is all beat and a whistle has no beat.
Maybe this dark age will pass. Country Music is still has a tune, but is it whistled?
Probably, but pop culture doesn't want to listen. m/r

Has the decline of the delivery boy killed the art of whistling? - News - Music - The Independent

NICK CLARK 12 APRIL 2015

Paul McCartney said he knew The Beatles had really made it when he heard the milkman whistling one of the Fab Four’s hits. But it is less likely to happen these days, and not just because of the decline in milk deliveries. Whistling, it seems, is on the wane.

While whistling has been used by cultural icons from Benjamin Britten to Bing Crosby and Peppa Pig, new statistics suggest it is declining in popularity in 21st century Britain.

Experts suggest social shifts, with a decline in working class jobs, as well as the rise of the iPod and mobile phones may be to blame. Close to 70 per cent of people believe fewer people whistle now compared with two or three decades ago, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by The Sunday Times. Nearly half said it was down to fading working class culture and a third blamed portable music devices.

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