Posted on 07/29/2012 1:09:24 PM PDT by grundle
It’s not just our imagination – pop music really has been getting worse and worse. And now we have a scientific study that proves it.
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You mean Mo Town right, I worried about Disco, it would last.......
Well if you like one tune, 2 chords, one beat, bad poetry and vocoder music, 99% of all the music for the last 15 years should be right down your alley.
“audio examples at link”
No.. stolen-by-blogger direct links right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zTsV6dc8X8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7QmCBb6ejg&feature=player_embedded
Why is it that you feel ripping off other people’s videos entitles you to blog hits?
What else do you think you are entitled to?
Someone hijacked music and ruined it. Same thing happened to our White House.. And our DOJ.. Along with our entire country.
What qualifies as “today’s pop music”? I’m sure there are bands and audiophiles who insist on better than Justin Bieber and that crap.
In fact, I believe that the most popular, most overplayed music from any generation has generally been that era’s weakest, most sugary-sweet crap...especially after the 1960’s with the emergence of a more “underground”, more “dedicated to the craft, not the ‘hit’” scene.
Best music this country had was the Big Band Era
It’s not just “pop” music that strikes me as having become barren in the past few decades. Aside from the inherently perishable, and thus temporary culinary arts, most of the other art forms, both serious and popular, seem to have become creatively bankrupt for at least the past thirty years.
The only still-innovative art form I can think of is CGI film/video, and that’s as much due to technological advances as any profoundly new cultural inspiration.
We need new paradigms to inspire the arts.
Last night some teenagers behind me through a big pool party. They were blaring Black Sabbath & Led Zeppelin late into the night.
40 years from now, does anyone think teenagers (or anybody) are going to be blaring Lady Gaga and Beyonnce?
It’s amazing how disposable music has become over the last 20 years. Hell, it hasn’t even been 10 years and Emminem and Marlyn Manson are all but forgotten.
It's ironic that now often better sound quality is available from blu-ray video discs that have music than from music CDs, because the hyper-compression used in CDs would be very noticeable as artificial and distorted in most videos.
It's difficult to make anything sound very good or 'musical' with highly compressed digital audio such as most MP3's, which leads to a long term deterioration in the quality of song quality. Subtleties in musical styles and playing are largely erased. What is left are mostly 'sound effects', or at least more or less artificial sound.
I'm posting without previewing to try to minimize the problems I've been having with my 'Clear' internet service.
The Music sucks, the movies suck and even modern fiction books suck.
I blame greedy liberals.
Hey you kids get offa my lawn!
I do electronic music as a hobby. The physical culprit is called “Waves L2” a compressor limiter that has been abused to death.
The human ear perceives louder as better. So the louder something is, the better, right? Except there is a point of diminishing returns. There are others, but L2 is the big one.
The producers all fight to max their loudness in the interest of sales/radio play. Now, if your song is not smashed to death, it will not get radio play as it cannot ‘compete’ with the ‘louder’ tracks...and thus sales decline.
It’s total idiocy, but that’s what happens when corporate bottom line methods get pushed on artistic expression. There is a great video on YT comparing Iron maiden and Metallica ‘loudness’ from their early albums through the more modern stuff. It’s awful.
**Best music this country had was the Big Band Era**
Agreed! I just found some nice Sammy Kaye LPs not long ago.
“Someone hijacked music and ruined it.”
“...the day the music died. And they were singing, bye, bye Miss American Pie...”
I don’t need a scientific study to tell me that.
But, there are bands out there: One band today that would've fit in back in the '70's is Muse.
Also, I found out most of the other bands today started out on the Christian music scene, believe it or not. Some play a softer kind of rock, but not all do.
> Someone hijacked music and ...
Talk about hijacking music. I was watching an old 40s black and white movie last Fall on Netflix. During the story the guy and his girl went to a night club. It was a Latin themed club. I was dumbfounded when the band was playing the “macarena”.
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