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Yes, you are right. Though, I think the idea is that pop music has become more of an industry now than it was before, in the sense that every aspect of it is op
by vouaobrasil 4y ago
Yes, you are right. Though, I think the idea is that pop music has become more of an industry now than it was before, in the sense that every aspect of it is optimized and all those optimizations are pushed to the extreme over any artistic merit, far more than 30 years ago.
- pram 4y ago30 years ago we had fabricated boy bands like NSYNC.
- bsder 4y agoBoy bands have been around since the start of TV. Frank Sinatra was probably close to the original "Boy Band(tm)". Singers were originally an appendage to the orchestra who was the big name. With TV, being young and attractive became much more important than the music and that equation flipped. Sinatra, Elvis, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, etc. All of them relied on being "boy bands" to spread their music initially. Sure, many of them became more sophisticated with time, but much of their initial catalog was ... extremely derivative. There were a bunch of contemporary groups who sounded just like Elvis, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, etc. Without being Boy Bands who could move records, they never would have lasted long enough to get better and become the legends we now know them to be.
- colanderman 4y agoHeck, 60 years ago we had The Monkees.
- bazoom42 4y agoPop music was produced on an assembly-line at least since the 1940’s eg the Brill building style. Of couse some of the music produced like this was great art.