Due to (over?)-connectivity music has gone extreme at both ends. We have the Taylor Swifts and Ed Sheeran's etc. at one extreme and the amazing voice of Elizabe

Due to (over?)-connectivity music has gone extreme at both ends. We have the Taylor Swifts and Ed Sheeran's etc. at one extreme and the amazing voice of Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins, the vocal on Teardrop by Massive Attack etc. etc.) still putting out new stuff [1], with only 6.51K subscribers. Rock is not dead, its just competing with stuff that didn't exist before it did and is having a hard time competing with everything else created since, to enable its reach to the younger generations. It still reaches some of them though. Take me back to when music was valuable and not-on tap (i.e. pre Spotify/Napster etc.) and they gave it space to breathe - no loudness wars, no taking up all the bandwidth, instead space - which was a relatively recent production trend that made it hard to sample new music, but also made it fatiguing to listen to, to the point I'll just go back to older stuff. You can see the bandwidth taken up if you loud a track and look at the waveform in a DAW or Audacitity or similar and it mostly peaks at the same level. Older music never did that. When it was released Radioheads OK Computerhead (1997) sounded significantly louder [2] than any other CD you'd put on your home system. Albeit, they did it with intention and discretion, but set a new loudness bar which had to be reached at the cost of quality, because other bands couldn't afford the cost/time/experience of Radioheads audio-engineers. I want my ears to be able to learn to discern between 1,2,4,5,7,8,11 rather than just have 2, 6, 10, 14 as options when it comes to dynamic range. Just because the latter sounds louder and drowns out other songs, doesn't mean its better. It's actually worse. Its basically the same as yelling your point in a debate makes it more meaningful - no it doesn't - your noise to signal ratio has increased to obfuscate them meaningfulness of your signal and you just come across as angry/tiring. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@elizabethfraser3796 https://www.youtube.com/@elizabethfraser3796 [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/qmcse3/why_is_modern_music_so_fatiguingharsh/ https://old.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/qmcse3/why_i...