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Even so, is it really a big deal? There is more - and more varied and complex - music now, than there has ever been at any point in history. And you can find an
by thom 3y ago
Even so, is it really a big deal? There is more - and more varied and complex - music now, than there has ever been at any point in history. And you can find and access almost all of it instantly! Who cares or even knows what's in the charts these days? I can be a huge kids-these-days curmudgeon about music, and the recommendation algorithms aren't even that good, but I have found more music in the last five years that I truly love than I did in the entirety of teens.
- spyspy 3y agoAgreed! My hot take among my millennial friends is that popular music today is way more varied and interesting than what we grew up with. Sorry 50 cent. And it’s not like that music disappeared. We get both! My only complaint is how short songs are now. Everything is tiktok optimized.
- BipolarCapybara 3y agoMore than TikTok optimized, stream optimized. Artists get paid by individual stream, so they make their songs shorter in hopes of getting more streams per album.
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- thom 3y agoI've not noticed that, if anything I'm always delighted to find a 3-minute song these days, it feels like a bit of a lost art.
- gardenhedge 3y agoI always thought most songs were too padded out. E.g chorus repeated 3+ times
- bobthepanda 3y agoGenerally speaking you have a lot more diversity in sound. Latin pop is much bigger and often is present. Kpop makes regular appearances. And now joining their Carribean music cousins are Afrobeats tunes.
- api 3y agoI think that’s really it. Pop used to be much better because pop was a serious thing that attracted the best musicians and discerning listeners. Now the best musicians and listeners are all in niche musical communities. Pop is dead. This mirrors a broader trend. There really isn’t a majority anymore or a popular culture. There are only a million fluid ever changing niches and subcultures, seemingly so rapidly changing and evolving that they can’t even be named.
- Loughla 3y ago>pop was a serious thing that attracted the best musicians and discerning listeners. When was this ever the case? I'm not trying to be a dick, honestly. When was that statement true?
- giraffe_lady 3y agoIt's more true now than it ever has been. The majority of well known mainstream pop artists are highly competent musicians with an entire team behind them. The technical skill level of the engineers, music directors, and producers working in pop is unreal right now. This is also true of pretty much all genres too I'm not trying to put anyone down here. The level of quality across all music is just exceptionally high these days. But also https://youtu.be/eSuK_5zW2iM?si=2g9xUznIm1nCxhqV&t=653 https://youtu.be/eSuK_5zW2iM?si=2g9xUznIm1nCxhqV&t=653
- ryandrake 3y agoThis is probably my geriatric grumpiness speaking, but this seems subjective so I can disagree. Today's pop stars are beautiful faces with teams of highly competent, mostly invisible, professionals working behind the scenes to prop them up with music. It's much easier to take a handsome/pretty person and use technology to manufacture formulaic music around him or her, than it is to take a talented musician and make them picturesque and sellable. It was also the case years ago, but somehow even moreso today. I fully agree that quality outside of the mainstream / performance artists is better than ever though!
- justanotherjoe 3y agoyeah. Hip hop / pop or whatver the nomenclature is, is way more compoex now. Why? because the real artist is no longer the rebellious young girl or the face tattooed young boy, but the geeky/middle aged music producer behind the scene. Making even the lamest mumblings enjoyable. The singer is just the brand. The face.
- ainiriand 3y agoAgree! I'm deep into dungeon synth these days, I love how people find new art expressions in the sea of mediocrity that is this industry.