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The most corrosive part of this that affects the quality of the music is this: ...songs are becoming shorter, and artists are front-loading all the catchy bits
by wyclif 7y ago
The most corrosive part of this that affects the quality of the music is this:
...songs are becoming shorter, and artists are front-loading all the catchy bits to keep a song’s skip rate as low as possible
As music consumers become more single-oriented and running an attention deficit, everthing is getting hook fronted in the first 30 seconds of the song to keep people from skipping. Now, that might be interesting for a while if it makes artists experiment with verse-chorus-verse pop song structure but I'll bet the long term effect will be a race to the bottom in terms of lack of complexity and a lot of pop music is going to sound samey very fast.
- gherkinnn 7y agoNothing new. Korn mentions just that in their “Y’all want a single” [0] - back in 2003. The text at 2:32 says “90% of singles get to the ’hook’ within 30 seconds”. Then: “98% of #1 hits are less than 3:30 long” and “does this sound like a formula to you?” [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyFlW_bOg-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyFlW_bOg-Q
- thegabriele 7y agoYep, funny thing is the song itself follows all the rules for a single and it's a banger because... well, it's a full fledged single.
- Juliate 7y agoAnd what's funny, is that originally, this 3/4 minutes formula is likely more tied to physical constraints than marketing/human psychology: https://www.vox.com/2014/8/18/6003271/why-are-songs-3-minutes-long https://www.vox.com/2014/8/18/6003271/why-are-songs-3-minute... Which reminds a bit of http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html as well.
- felixyz 7y agoWow that last link is amazing. I love that kind of stuff!
- KineticLensman 7y ago> Which reminds a bit of http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html as well. TL;DR - the legend that the width of the shuttle SRBs is derived from a design decision about cart width that goes back to the Romans. But it's actually a bit more complicated than that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-gauge_railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-gauge_railway
- Juliate 7y agoExcellent, thanks for the link!