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The findings are mind-boggling to me. Though none of these songs are representative of my preferred style of music, I knew every single one of them so well that
by andykx 6y ago
The findings are mind-boggling to me. Though none of these songs are representative of my preferred style of music, I knew every single one of them so well that I feel like I still know every word. I was born in ‘93. I’m surprised that so few people from my age group seemed to recognize some of them.
- jariel 6y agoAs a GenX-er it's also mind boggling to me how some very 'ingrained' songs might not be recognized by younger folks. Quite a lot of good pop tracks, not my style, but they are played literally at the grocery store, I don't fathom how people don't know them. Something has definitely changed in music (a few things) - at hockey games they are playing strictly rock up until 2000. Part of it is demographics, but there's just nothing to replace 'Welcome To The Jungle' by Guns and Roses that has enough widespread acclaim.
- jacobush 6y agoYeah, it's almost uncanny. I wonder what it's going to do with for instance movie tracks with popular appeal. Will we continue to play what people know? Will the canon of the 20th century be with us for a long time?
- core-questions 6y agoSure, why not? Musical innovation seems to have slowed or fractured due to only pop music still having sufficient institutional backing to really retain large segments of listeners; meanwhile, music - like most communally-experienced art forms - thrives best when large groups of people know about them. In other words: there's probably plenty of great stuff to replace/supplant 20th century hits, but unless you continually skulk random soundcloud pages you won't find it. All you get access to is undifferentiated pablum pop by default, which is amazingly less brave than it has ever been, musically.
- jariel 6y agoPop is now 'extreme pop' i.e. Taylor Swift - bangers by the same production teams, they are products. So they lack a lot of soul. The rest of music is very exploratory - production tricks, sounds, styles. It seems that most basic melody and rhythm stuff is just to boring - but that is what sticks over the long haul. So I think a lot of music today is too specific, and due to what big-pop is ... never sees the light of day anyhow. We may in fact see a lot of 20-century music linger for a while. That said, we don't listen to a lot of 1st half 20th century today ... though still tons from the 60's-80's. Top selling albums are consistently Queen, Metallica, Eagles.
- caf 6y agoThose pop production teams have been around for a while - eg. Stock Aitken Waterman, Cheiron Studios.
- dkdbejwi383 6y agoIndeed, the notorious Max Martin's been doing his thing since about 1997, and seems to show no signs of decline.
- jacobush 6y agoAkshuly he has had fewer mega hits lately.