Pop music too loud and all sounds the same: official

[hibidy]

That's a study to prove what we already knew before...

OTOH, I know many good artists whose songs are not sounding the same, for example Gotye or Foster The People...

I agree. I'm not a huge FTP fan, in fact, I don't really like them much. But they don't sound f**king smashed/squashed and rammed. Also, they are pretty damn good live (they are on maybe palladia??)

I love Gotye. I can't believe it took getting popular to hear it but I like it (I only have the latest, dimples didn't have anything else used or new but you can youtube it)

Anyhow.......

[hibidy]

I have definitely noticed how bubblegum pop, commercial dance, r&b and hip hop have been converging more and more over the years. Now you really can hear the same cookie cutter supersaw chord progressions used across all of those genres. My god, it's so boring.

The worst part is, you can't even tell them apart anymore

[rcat]

"What Would Jimi Do"

[hibidy]

Well, he'd probably be praising those who don't overlimit/smash

[debra1rlo]

"What Would Jimi Do"

a hit of acid?

[Kriminal]

Pick almost any genre and you could say the same....hardly a groundbreaking study

[trimph1]

The search for the One Truly Unique artist goes ever on......

[A.M. Gold]

...a world full of closed-minded, tunnel-visioned, zombie sheep.

Add a teen-vampire-romance angle and you'd have the makings of the next summer blockbuster movie.

[hibidy]

closed minded tunnel visioned zombie sheep? Sounds like you are tired of the trash too

This was proven a long time ago, nothing going to done about it either. The sheeples like it like that.

[A.M. Gold]

I have definitely noticed how bubblegum pop, commercial dance, r&b and hip hop have been converging more and more over the years. Now you really can hear the same cookie cutter supersaw chord progressions used across all of those genres. My god, it's so boring.

The worst part is, you can't even tell them apart anymore

What do you mean? I can definitely tell these two guys apart:

[A.M. Gold]

This was proven a long time ago, nothing going to done about it either. The sheeples like it like that.

I sort of agree. But then why were people not- so-sheeple in the 60's and 70's? The species hasn't changed biologically in that time. Something happened to them, to their poor brains, that made them confused about what they wanted. Now they think they want the lowest quality choices, which they tire of instantly, so they have to illegally download another 50 tracks three days later.

[contrary]

Something happened to them, to their poor brains, that made them confused about what they wanted.

Frank Zappa said " people don't know what they want ; they want what they know "

Now they think they want the lowest quality choices...

Ya , we need to return to the higher standards of yester year;

[hibidy]

yep, can of worms with a bottomless pit.

Can we end it now??

[contrary]

Can we end it now??

Wish granted

[kbaccki]

On the plus side, the music industry has figured out how to fully indoctrinate the toddlers and pre-teens into the Wall of Hemogeneity…



(a particular delight, if you like the Wall of Homogeneity)

(ditto)


Mission accomplished!