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I stopped listening to radio many years ago, because how predictable and simplistic i thought the songs were. Literally couplet, refrain, couplet refrain, a lit
by dgan 3y ago
I stopped listening to radio many years ago, because how predictable and simplistic i thought the songs were. Literally couplet, refrain, couplet refrain, a little variation of 10 seconds, refrain
It is insultingly dumb.
A happy enjoyer of Be'lakor here (EDIT: and old Infected Mushroom:)
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y agoIf we want AI to be able to generate all of our music, and of course we do, then we have to make it easy for them.
- diggan 3y ago/me runs away while listening to techno, house and drum&bass... Sometimes repetition/simplicity is not so bad, and apparently I'm not the only one who is fine with it.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoHate Haiku too, so ... formulaic. Of course I'm being snarky. I've learned to love constraints in part perhaps because of a part of my brain wants something familiar. A familiar voice seems to be why I seem to enjoy an otherwise second-tier song if it is by an artist I like. Familiarity seems to be why I pretty exclusively listen to songs with Western tonality. But creativity too seems to come from constraints. And we appreciate the artists/poets that do something original within those boundaries. To be sure of course, anyone can string together 5-7-5 syllables (and perhaps too 3 chords of refrain/chorus/refrain/chorus/bridge/chorus) but we know the good stuff when we hear it.
- Joker_vD 3y agoOh, today the formula is basically "couplet, refrain, refrain, refrain". Writing a whole second couplet? Who has time for that when you can polish your refrain for more ear-worminess.