• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Today's pop music really does all sound the same

Status
Not open for further replies.
B

BladeVenom

Lifer
What has changed is how the chords are spliced into melodies. In the 1950s many of the less common chords would chime close to one another in the melodic progression. More recently, they have tended to be separated by the more pedestrian chords, leading to a loss of some of the more unusual transitions. Timbre, lent by instrument types and recording techniques, similarly shows signs of narrowing, after peaking in the mid-60s, a phenomenon Dr Serrà attributes to experimentation with electric-guitar sounds by Jimi Hendrix and the like.

What music lost in variety, it has gained in volume. Songs today are on average 9 decibels louder than half a century ago, confirming what industry types have long suspected: that record labels engage in a "loudness race" in order to catch radio listeners’ attention.
Click to expand...

Music has gotten stupider and louder.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/07/science-music
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120726/srep00521/full/srep00521.html
 
Its pretty damn bad. TV as well. Most pop is just watered down versions of music with real depth and structure. Look at almost the watered down electro that is all over pop stations now. And the much much worse hip hop
 
LOL- been saying that for years. Everyone wants to be a pop singer now that oversings over a sampled track, or if a musician does bother to learn an instrument they learn 6 chords and build their career on it.

I was at an open mike night a couple of months back and a couple of friends were playing around in an almost empty bar. I asked this kid to give me a 4 bar blues shuffle in A9.

He looked at me, and said "what do you mean 9?" I said "You know, add a 9th to it to give it a country feel." He replied "A 9th what?"

This was the guitarist for the house band.

Everyone is so concerned about taking the easy way into music that the complexity and diversity is being lost. Melody is being striped, replaced by computer generated rhythms.

It makes me sad 🙁
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top