The first point about the rise of hip hop seems good. The second point about the rise of digital production seems like incorrect conjecture. If chord changes h

The first point about the rise of hip hop seems good. The second point about the rise of digital production seems like incorrect conjecture. If chord changes had become more, not less popular, I'm sure that the rise of digital production would be cited as the reason, since it makes it much easier to modulate all the instruments. I think a better hypothesis is what was alluded to in the editorial at the end: > Say what you will about key changes. Maybe you find them at best heavy-handed and at worst trite. I know that I often do. They have just fallen out of fashion as being gimmicky. I don't really buy that vertical production would kill the key change. After all, beat switches are alive and well. We still have verses and choruses and interludes and beat drops.