It's not well done. The frequencies are all wrong, because they cause headache even in low volumes. They almost brake (i don't know the english word for that) windows and shake buildings. There was recently a summer festival miles (it was far far away) away from where I live and the buzz saw-racket shook the building, almost broke the windows and garnered numerous complaints, from Heavy Metal-fans to regular folk to old folk. So I though, what about the people in the festival? Do they somehow adapt to that unhuman noise? I've spent hundreds of hours with my earphones on or monitors in high volume in mixing or recording sessions. I play an electric guitar, I do EDM. I listen to and mix. But I still find it untolerable. It simply sounds wrong. Are these producers so old, it's them who've gone deaf? And the audience, who are already used to high "adapt" even further?do_androids_dream wrote:
There is no 'problem'. It's simply that it's not your taste. Many folks happen to very minimal pop music - it's in fact very hard to do it well (and to mix it effectively).
[/quote]What exactly do you fear?[/quote]
Less musical context, more noise, more buzz saw. More deafness to those who don't adapt. Or just deafness.
[/quote]'Progress' is a completely false concept with regard to music. Music simply changes.[/quote]
There has been a clear progress in mainstream pop. It was very much Glam-Rock, electronic and cheesy pop-tunes in the 80s. During the 80s and 90s Hip-Hop became popular and the 2000s pop was influenced by it. Yes, those are changes, but it is progression.
There has also been a progress in guitar music, like someone noted in another thread I read a while ago. In the early days, old people couldn't stand the sound of even slighty amped guitars. And look at heavy metal now. But heavy metal is a sub-genre with a smaller audience than mainstream music. And mainstream music eventually penetrates your everyday life if you go out, or as I pointed out, if you don't. That's what I'm making all this fuss about.
[/quote]Dude be young embrace the noise[/quote]
If only I could. But there is a limit of noise one can stand, at least for a generation. Isn't music all about expression? Can it be expression, if it is all noise?
Most people are simple-minded, to put it mildly. They just want simple stuff to dance to or sing along, or be played in the background so that there is no silence.
Funny I forgot they were so popular since I wasn't born back then. Oh, l'm a fan of A-Ha, Phil Collins, Hall & Oates, the list goes on & on... Yes, thankfully there has always been the gems. These days, just less and less. But the mainstream music culture has become more transparent and convoluted, since we have more than MTV. In my
