Is Pop Music Getting Less Intelligent?
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Is Pop Music Getting Less Intelligent?
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#2Nice job! :-) I think that music (melodies, riffs, combination of sounds and notes, etc...) are getting very stupidier. I don't have tools nor skills to test this assumption, just my hears. Try to listen MTV for some month and you'll see that a lot of new songs are very similar to other ones. I mean, too much similar.
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#3Pop Music was ever Intelligent? Seriously
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#4Nice job! :-) I think that music (melodies, riffs, combination of sounds and notes, etc...) are getting very stupidier. I don't have tools nor skills to test this assumption, just my hears. Try to listen MTV for some month and you'll see that a lot of new songs are very similar to other ones. I mean, too much similar.
A musician friend of mine (classically trained, but works with pop music for decades now) says that's true, and the reason is that much music today is heavily rhythm centric, and everything else around it is ending up less complex or less diverse (don't remember which). I don't really know if it makes sense, as I haven't really been keeping up with mainstream stuff. Not that I don't like it, I just don't have as much time, and I found a suprising new love for older music that has kept strong and my music time goes towards it.
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#5Nice job! :-) I think that music (melodies, riffs, combination of sounds and notes, etc...) are getting very stupidier. I don't have tools nor skills to test this assumption, just my hears. Try to listen MTV for some month and you'll see that a lot of new songs are very similar to other ones. I mean, too much similar.
A musician friend of mine (classically trained, but works with pop music for decades now) says that's true, and the reason is that much music today is heavily rhythm centric, and everything else around it is ending up less complex or less diverse (don't remember which). I don't really know if it makes sense, as I haven't really been keeping up with mainstream stuff. Not that I don't like it, I just don't have as much…
The idea that rhythm is somehow less "intelligent", "complex", or "diverse" has all kinds of terrible connotations. Does your friend wear a powdered wig and perform for the ladies of the court?
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#6Two words: The Monkees.
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#7I applaud the author for not succumbing to the superciliousness of William Briggs. The irony of the linked article "Proof That Music is Growing Worse" made me chuckle a bit, and then made me feel a little disappointed.
Thank you for providing an interesting, objective analysis without injecting unfounded opinions.
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#8Is the pope catholic?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
A musician friend of mine (classically trained, but works with pop music for decades now) says that's true, and the reason is that much music today is heavily rhythm centric, and everything else around it is ending up less complex or less diverse (don't remember which). I don't really know if it makes sense, as I haven't really been keeping up with mainstream stuff. Not that I don't like it, I just don't have as much…
The idea that rhythm is somehow less "intelligent", "complex", or "diverse" has all kinds of terrible connotations. Does your friend wear a powdered wig and perform for the ladies of the court?
No, the idea is that today's pop music is rhythmically less diverse. Where is this mainstream pop music with such complex, diverse rhythms? Let me know where to tune it.
He compared contemporary jazz rhythm sections to contemporary pop as an example, vs. both genres in past decades.
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#10There has been terrible pop music since pop music began. Try and make it all the way to the end of this song from the golden 60s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhYLz63csS0