The problem with music is the same problem with video games like Call of Duty. They've gotten the format diluted down to a literal science, "formula X Y and Z produces the largest audience consistently" rather than doing something risky and innovative. It sucks the soul out of music because it purely revolves around metrics, algorithms, and profitability. they literally just analyze a bunch of the most popular songs, find the most common hallmark elements, feed it through a machine and pump it off an assembly line. At that point all you really need to do is plug in an "artist" to sing along with it and fix their awful singing in post-production. Newer generations will not even know what real music is. Just this weird soulless robotic crap pretending to be human to algorithmically generate revenue.
Anyways, here's a hit romance song written by a Jew about how love is the real currency so don't take his money https://youtu.be/B06qqB7bp-w
From 1984 -
""The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound."
That was a great rant.
You nailed it. Behind all of the "major hit" songs of the last 20 years are like 3 kike writers, who write the songs that people like Miley Cyrus go on to sing perform. They all sound the same, because they're written by the same fucking people using a formula like what you described.
Also, you didn't mention : this is more for music nerds, but this set of notes is a major part of the "formula" they found that gets listens. It's fucking disturbing to listen to mash-ups of the millennial whoop, so many douche bags and whores singing the same fucking song, always about a fucking relationship. I'm so fucking tired of hearing songs about people crying about their relationship struggles; but they keep getting made because people hear it, relate to it, and think "That song is about me and my bitch girlfriend" or w/e.
How are you hearing those 'songs' you're not wanting to hear?
Modern people are so brainwashed into thinking they have to listen to music that some in this thread probably even have radios that they turn on without a second thought. I gave that shit up back in the early 90s when I realized it was just crap they're using to program us. You should do the same if you're a person who still has a radio.
Keep 'music' for those occasions when you don't need to use your brain, and be discriminating with the type of music you allow in.
Sometimes you don't have a choice. If your boomer plant manager wants the radio on, tuned to a pop station that's considered "inoffensive" all day, then the people who work there are going to be subjected to that crap all day.
Don't act like songs and other media can't be forcefully shoved down our throats.
Fortunately, I was a bit of a "goth kid" as a young teen, so as I was going through that phase I discovered incredible music and moved far, far away from the mass-produced garbage that is "popular" at the time. While my peers were listening to Jay Z and Eminem and Katy Perry, I was listening to Opeth or Dream Theater or Nightwish. I even delved into some of the really underground shit, like Eyehategod, but I kinda grew outta that shit.
I am offended by the shit they play in pharmacies and grocery stores. I guess I'm a weirdo for not liking the "Weeee oooo, weeeee ooooo!" song, or the "Winter" song, etc..
Those nigger noises masquerading as "music" have always disgusted me.
They analyze songs for two things. One is how catchy it is based on previous popular songs. The other is how sticky/comfortable it is. This is why shit sounds so much the same now. They found people are less likely to turn shit off if it feels comfortable to them. For me it actually has the opposite effect. When I hear stuff that sounds like a bunch of stuff I already heard, I hate it.
Aside from this the production is making music ridiculously uniform in sound. There is quantizing to make rhythm absolutely perfect. There is autotune to make pitch absolutely perfect. Then there is normalization of volume to make everything sound louder. As someone said, if everything is loud then there is no quiet. Apparently, young people are really comfortable with and adapted to this very mechanical-sounding, indistinct music. I really hate it. I want the imperfections of a real, live performance.
70s and early 80s punk and metal
This is true but only for NPCSs. There is still plenty of innovative music out there that’s just not ‘mainstream’. Honestly I don’t want my mainstream music to be some religiously deep experience. I want some crap to sing along to drunk with my friends.
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shit so bangin
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