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> Pop music is mostly not about music quality - hits are always passable - but about celebrity. Interesting and bold statement. How do you distinguish the two?
by MangoToupe 1y ago
> Pop music is mostly not about music quality - hits are always passable - but about celebrity.
Interesting and bold statement. How do you distinguish the two?
- kusokurae 1y agoWorth mentioning here that historically a lot of the famous pop hits have had plenty of interesting technical decisions typically only a mature composer would come up with. Weird short bars, time signature stuff, temporary key changes, weird jazz chords etc. You don't notice them because they're refined choices.
- monero-xmr 1y agoWhatever schlock Taylor Swift manufactures next will be a global hit. Doesn’t matter the quality
- triceratops 1y agoIt would be an interesting experiment to have a global music star do a Richard Bachman.
- simianwords 1y agoEmpirically: by randomly asking N participants to rate pop music made by a celeb and by an indie band and observing if these participants were able to identify the celeb statistically.