Is electronic music formula?

[emcee]

Music itself is formula - in itself music is just organised sound/noise.
How formulaic you want to take that though.. Take (showing my age) the team of Stock Aitken Waterman from the 80's who had a recipe for their string of hits - even though they had various different clothes horses singing, you could always tell it was one of their songs from the first 10 seconds.

Then there's this

http://scoreahit.com/TheHitEquation

[KBSoundSmith]

All music in the West is stagnating by and large ...

Who cares as long as the video has lesbian bondage and baphomet poses, right? ...

Get a snazzy logo and do some marketing/spam ...

It's just stupid ...

Why bother with all that hard work, learning and experimentation crap. Most don't want a relationship with sound, but just to look good and gain status ...

Youtube is slowly changing into a corporate, lazy cash grab ...

You can now make more money by being young and conventionally attractive on musical.ly by doing f**k all than you can stand any chance of making money off of talent ...

#worldisfukt

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you seem to have nailed it

[annode]

In these observations, I see a recipe for artistic stagnation. Are these edm moguls really trying to connect with people on a personal level, and enrich cultural dialogues, or are they just trying to sell me a product?

Do people even listen to edm anymore? I accumulated a fairly large trance collection from late 90s-2000s, but all that dried up for me a long time ago.

Are you talking about virtual labels or what?
Record companies used to lone you capital, like a bank to finance you until you earned enough clout to legally re-negotiate.