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The Musical Diversity of Pop Songs

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Re: The Musical Diversity of Pop Songs

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> A single songwriter can specialize in literally the snare-drum. I was an amateur level producer in high school. I had hundred of snare-drum samples, not to mention a lot of way to influence the sound of a particular one. Picking a good snare-drum is very important, it can totally change the character of the song. All of modern music producing it's like that, it's an extremely efficient market, it's really really ha…

Except that websites are intended to be functional while songs are intended to be works of art. Thats the problem. Why are we treating music like an industrial product? (The answer is money)

because that's what all this manufactured, by-the-numbers pop music is, a cash generator.

Re: The Musical Diversity of Pop Songs

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Exactly. People complain about how music in the 70's or 80's or whatever was so much better than modern music. That music never went away. It's not like you're no longer allowed to listen to Pink Floyd. Music doesn't have an expiry date.

Those people either have very short memories or believe the hype. A lot of the stuff outside the top 40 is barely passable. Sheesh, even top 40 is full of trash, and that's picking the "best" 40 songs over a 10 year span.

The top 40 to me is a list of all the artists I should avoid.
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