Science Proves Your Grandma Right About Pop Music
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I would like to remind everyone of Sturgeon's Law - "90% of everything is crap."
90% of all the music on the radio now is crap.
90% of all the music on the radio when you were a kid was crap.
90% of all the music on the radio when your parents were kids was crap.
90% of all the music ever created since the dawn of time was, is, and forever will be crap.
We only remember the 10% that is not crap.
In 20 years, the people who are kids today will listen to their kids music and think it's crap... and 90% of it will be.
90% of all the music on the radio now is crap.
90% of all the music on the radio when you were a kid was crap.
90% of all the music on the radio when your parents were kids was crap.
90% of all the music ever created since the dawn of time was, is, and forever will be crap.
We only remember the 10% that is not crap.
In 20 years, the people who are kids today will listen to their kids music and think it's crap... and 90% of it will be.
i wish there was a thumbs up function on the forums.tmande2nd said:
anyway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
pretty much ancient news... at least i believe every music student has come to the same conclusion, if not by ear then by looking at sheets.
what would be interesting is if we could see the trend by genre, whether or not electronic, metal or hip hop and so on
I think this really only applies to Americanised pop music, Japanese, European, Korean pop music is fine, some actually being great. The fact that nowadays Pop is not really a genre but a blanket encompassing the songs that were designed to make money without artistic merit is probably why this is true. But even saying that, the case is pop music has always been a stagnant genre since music has becoming more available to the average person even before the internet.
Also the average pop music listener has become stupider, the record companies know that they can pretty much print out the same song over and over again without repercussions because the average pop listener is essentially mindless. That is also why people say a song sucks because it is a year old, they see music as a fad.
Also fuck Simon Cowell, one of the biggest reasons why the music industry is shit today.
Also the average pop music listener has become stupider, the record companies know that they can pretty much print out the same song over and over again without repercussions because the average pop listener is essentially mindless. That is also why people say a song sucks because it is a year old, they see music as a fad.
Also fuck Simon Cowell, one of the biggest reasons why the music industry is shit today.
The problem here being a lot of modern pop artists have nothing to say.The Pink Pansy said:
At least, nothing of interest to say.
Gah! Big post!j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
I don't think most listeners care about song structure progression. It's just about what pleases the ear. I don't know much about song structure, but Somebody that I Used to Know and Rolling in the Deep sound different to me, so the fact that they may not be so on a technical level does not bother me; I still dislike Rolling in the Deep as much as ever.
Besides how do YOU plan on stopping this stagnation? It doesn't bother me because I still have Black Metal (and as we all know THAT hasn't been stuck in place for the last decade.)
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Lol, I've been playing Banjo-Kazooie.
Eluveitie is the best.kyosai7 said:I love you. I love Eluveitie. Folk metal is awesomeSoulSalmon said:
Inis Mona (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijKLHCQw5o) was the song that finally moved me away from the generic crap and into real music.
That single Folk Metal song (and indeed the whole band) expanded my music tastes further then I'd ever imagined, from Metal to Classical, from Ska to Electronic, from Chiptune to Funk...
You find me someone with even remote knowledge of music theory that still likes modern pop music and I'll show you the only person who will care about this news story.
Glad to see that there is at least some skepticism on the thread. As for me, I don't really listen to much music at all, let alone pop or rock or indie or whatever other genre is popular right now, so this really has little significance to me. As for why I bothered commenting, I have no idea...
Well I kinda agree with him actually... it's like the (bullshit) research that "proved" that IE users have a lower IQ than users of alternative browsers. Not that I'm saying that this is bullshit, but if you really give a damn about something like this, I'd check that there actually IS a "Spanish National Research Council" (there is, I googled - and if you can't trust Google, who can you trust?) and that Joan Serra is a member of it.Devoneaux said:
Basically you have to treat this kind of stuff with scepticism nowadays. If you don't, you might end up believing that Barack Obama is a muslim, or that key Republican party officials want to bring in a "three-strikes" policy whereby anybody getting a third "strike" would be sent instantly to Death Row. (And yes, both of those things are false, although if you believe the Internet, you might not think so.)
Can we stop using the phrase "Science proves . . ."? That's bullshit. Science is a set of principles and guidelines for studying the world that help make said studies more accurate when properly applied. Science doesn't prove anything. *Scientists* prove things.
In theory.
In theory.
