One of the things that needs to die is bass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8 So yeah, loud bass sounds

One of the things that needs to die is bass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8 So yeah, loud bass sounds cool. Some interesting stuff was done with it fifteen or twenty years ago: hip hop, drum and bass, etc. Dubstep was one of those things that should have been a little micro-trend but somehow got super-popular because bass, man! It must have some kind of psychological effect or something, but once you get past that it's really boring. Bass is kind of like spice. It can be used to make food more interesting, but it can also be used to cover up food that tastes like crap by overpowering it with hot sauce. I agree-- nobody's trying. Nobody's really pushing the envelope. I think it mirrors what we're seeing in other areas: lots of lame apps instead of tackling hard problems, etc. We're in this weird gilded age depression-ish thing where there's lots of money sloshing around chasing not much in particular.