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.
Contemporary music always reflects the times in which it is written. Think, hits of the 60s, 70s and 80s. You can always identify the decade when a song was written. Same goes for past decades and centuries. Music is an aural history book.
Snarky Puppy, Vulfpeck, Cory Wong...
I like the Ballad of Billy the Kid. And I love Billy Joel. As a piano player, I look at his 7/8 time measures and D#19 chords and say, “how did I ever play that?” but how I did it is he is just soooo damned talented of a writer that the most progressive oddities in his music just flow so naturally.
But seriously, whatever “criticisms” of the record industry make it to an album are precisely those “criticisms” that the record industry wants to promote. Pat Benetar learned this the hard way when she released Sex As A Weapon as a #MeToo video thirty-some-odd years ahead of its time. MTV dropped her faster than if she called for people to worship Christ! (Ironically, the song was merely about getting so hot and she lost her better judgment.)
I am forced to listen to “current” (I think that is what it is) music at my gym.
All i can hear is monotonous computer generated drum pounding, shouting, and chanting. At least grunge imitated or ripped off older music, irritating as it was.
Increasing deafness is a blessing in a few ways.
From 1984:
The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound.
It’s chilling that so much from 1984 fits today. From that pop music song to lotteries, tabloid newspapers, easy to get pornography, a horrible crime problem, rundown infrastructure, shortages of everything, bad tempered and rude people, spoiled savage kids, never ending, costly wars, and corrupt media.
Listening to streaming music I enjoy Serenade radio and Marc Steyn’s song of the week.the streaming THE CLASSICAL STATION has one of the deepest catalogs out there. These two stations are curated with a real announcer.
I would love to find other streaming curated genres of music. Perhaps by decade or style?
Jazz? Big band? Crooners?Each decade from the 1890s? Movie music?
“All i can hear is monotonous computer generated drum pounding, shouting, and chanting. At least grunge imitated or ripped off older music, irritating as it was.”
Yep, that’s all I hear. Autotune and synthesizers. It took years for me to convince people (mainly my son) that, no, I will not love this new song. He finally quit trying.
Have you checked out Devin Townsend? Guy's a phenomenal talent; great writer, performer and mix engineer. Down to earth, too.
That Aaron Lewis tune is phenomenal! It brought tears to my eyes but also filled me with extreme hatred for leftists and what they and their useful idiots have done to America.
Instrumental rock, be it hard rock or prog rock gets it done for me on Bandcamp. In contrast, the Cookie Monster vocals in the metal genre are absurd.
Cookie Monster vocals. Lololol! I will never be able to take Metal vocals seriously again!
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