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re: Why is modern pop music so terrible?
Posted on 9/8/17 at 7:05 am to SUB
Posted on 9/8/17 at 7:05 am to SUB
quote:Taste can play a part within good music. That does not mean that objectively bad music does not exist. I can't stand The Beatles, but they made objectively good music. Same cannot be said for Britney Spears or Black Eyed Peas.
Your fallacy once again comes to personal taste as being one of those parts. A song can be complex and well produced but you may not like it. Does that make it poor quality? No? Then what?
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Posted on 9/8/17 at 7:35 am to AlxTgr
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Same cannot be said for Britney Spears
Millions of gay men cant be wrong
Posted on 9/8/17 at 8:42 am to vandelay industries
If a label assembled a meeting with 100 unsigned pop artists, telling them "submit an original song to us, and we'll sign the 10 best", there's a reasonable chance the label would receive a fairly wide array of songs to choose from.
If a label assembled a meeting with 100 unsigned pop artists, telling them "submit an original song to us, and we'll sign the best one", there's a reasonable chance the label would receive 100 identical songs, since the artist would probably feel there's no wiggle room for exploration.
The first scenario is more applicable to the days of yore, and the second scenario fits today. That's where we are now, and it's likely why today's pop music is so predictable...
If a label assembled a meeting with 100 unsigned pop artists, telling them "submit an original song to us, and we'll sign the best one", there's a reasonable chance the label would receive 100 identical songs, since the artist would probably feel there's no wiggle room for exploration.
The first scenario is more applicable to the days of yore, and the second scenario fits today. That's where we are now, and it's likely why today's pop music is so predictable...
Posted on 9/8/17 at 9:22 am to vandelay industries
Posted on 9/8/17 at 10:49 am to Baloo
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Marketing executives figured out the kids and have scammed the system to lead them back to the same few artists over and over again.
I think you are on to something on the business end. I attribute it to the corporatization of radio, where big conglomorates started buying up the popular radio stations in any market. Case in point in New Orleans you have WRNO which is now all talk, but back in the 1970's,80's and 90's it was THE ROCK OF NEW ORLEANS. It was not just classic rock either, if there was a new band that came out, you could expect RNO to at least give it some exposure. Every night at midnight there was the album hour where new albums coming out got played. Also every now and then they would also try to expose local acts....like Zebra, Lillian Axe and later Better than Ezra. You don't find that really today
Actually, today, the prime listening times are populated by syndicated shows playing the same old same old whether it's the Top 40 pop or even Country
Also, don't discount the advent of SiriusXM in all of this with its overall segmented format
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