Posted on 12/09/2022 7:11:05 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
In recent years, the use of key changes in music has decreased significantly, leading to monotonous and predictable sound. This lack of tonal variation has made many popular songs uninteresting and unengaging. In this video we explore how the disappearance of key changes has contributed to the current state of music.
I’m stuck in the past when it comes to music despite trying something new. I occasionally force myself to listen to the top 50’s playlists on Spotify and all I find is redundant crap. My music journey now focus primarily on finding what I had missed when growing up, often taking tangents of the previously and forever unpopular but extremely good music that the music biz never deemed appropriate for mass consumption.
Thanks for sharing. Beato’s channel has some excellent content and analysis.
To me, all genres of modern music sound just alike. I couldn’t even begin to tell the difference between any female pop singer, all the rap sounds exactly the same, and I don’t even want to think about modern “country”. I quit listening to new music in 1982.
Yep. It’s soul-crushing.
We talking “key” changes or key “changes”? We changed keys the other night at a jam session. 😎👍🎸
Not really. There’s tons of amazing stuff happening in modern music. The problem is it isn’t popular. Modern POPULAR music has flattened out with a level of sameness. Modern Optional Entertainment (to borrow a phrase from Zappa) has more variety than ever. Tedeschi Trucks, Rival Sons, Pretty Reckless, Gary Clark Jr, Alter Bridge. There’s AMAZING music being made today. But you gotta go find it. It’s no longer served up to you on radio.
Compared to the quality of music between the mid 60’s and mid to late 70’s, today’s music doesn’t even register on the radar. It’s that far off.
My tagline is true.
Modern country songs are so similar that mashups of five or six songs sound like only one song. Something new will come along eventually. Whenever music becomes bland and formulaic, real musicians rebel and start something new. Perhaps musicianship will return.
At this point the vast majority of music is written, produced and packaged by large companies.
They are products. They are meant to be sold. And make money.
By and large they are making the products that the majority of people want to buy.
Most of the music is also produced by cutting and pasting pre recorded samples/ loops on a computer and then adding in “real” vocals.
You have to delve deep. past the mass marketed pop stuff to find anything that is really new or interesting.
The overwhelming vast majority of current music has absolutely no staying power, is uninspired, lyrically lazy, copycat rather than influenced and repetitive beyond belief.
Every so often a really good song will come along but it is rarer and rarer because so much of a piece of music is focused on how the visual presentation will be.
All of the above is my opinion and your mileage may vary.
True, and I would extend that from the mid century into the mid 80's.
There. Fixed it.
Maybe the purpose of music today is not to communicate sometimes complex emotions and celebrate life anymore but instead seems to be mostly rhythm and beat.
This communicates primitive mating rituals and celebrates the pervasive modern hook-up culture worship of the easy, cheap, and often “O” that supercedes all other matters.
(Also occasionally the goal is to simply disturb, which is easy to accomplish. Baroque, Classical, Jazz, Folk, Rock, now has become the Narcissism Age of Music.
You are so correct with your first statement although this has been the case to a lesser extent it is now past the tipping point.
Our local PBS just ran back to back segments on The Carpenters; how their hits came to be, and then a Christmas special.
It’s a fundraiser, but I ignore that and just enjoy the music.
Karen Carpenter was really something, and Richard so, SO talented. I wish someone could’ve saved her from herself.
‘A Star on Earth And Now A Star in Heaven.’
I assume you were talking about this either directly or indirectly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0VXubTsAoE
Today’s music is not music...................
“Dr. Luke” has been brought in to write entirely too many modern songs. His crap is very formulaic. Also, record companies have started to employ software that can “pick hit songs”, and he has a knack for understanding what the algorithm likes, so his crap all sounds the same.
(disclaimer: prior ages also elevated the “O” as a goal too but never as impersonal, cold, mean, and soul-less as today. Other people, objects, animals are just tools to accomplish it. No romance, relationships, nor Family (eek!) considered.)
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