I didn't need a study to tell me this. I was just commenting to Brony-boy the other day how much of today's music is canned, no-talent, crap and he didn't want to believe me. LOLWASHINGTON - If you're of a certain age, chances are you've thought today's popular music sounds samey and loud, compared with music from the '60s and '70s.
You were right.
Spanish researchers ran a half-million songs from 1955 to 2010 through computer analysis, and found today's songs have less melodic and chordal variety.
And it's louder.
The findings were published in Scientifc Reports, from the journal "Nature."
Songwriters today take fewer chances.
"The complexity of the pitch transition -- chords and melodies -- is simplified over the years. Right now music is full of ...simple transitions. In the Fifties, new chords were tried and we were more experimental."
"It is less an artistic expression and more a commercial product. Old music was more expressive, more experimental," says researcher Martin Haro, a PhD student from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Haro tells The Times UK, "I think music today has to sell, you have to catch people's attention -- and you have to be louder."
"It has to be prepared for playing in the discotheque," Haro says.
http://wtop.com/41/2966000/Pop-IQ
He's all talkin' up the talents of Skrillex. I can't say whether Skrillex has talent... all I've heard from him is unimaginative, electronic dub-step noise. And that garbage passes for music. I dunno.
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Fri Jul 27 2012, 12:47 PM #1Disavowed By IMF
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Study: Today's songs all sound the same
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The Beatles alone had more variety and styles than all the groups today.
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And Led Zeppelin had more than them. Originally Posted by TechMomof2
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Here's my recent post on Zeppelin's best albums: http://www.rarasfarm.com/2012/rankin...pelins-albums/
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And Pink Floyd, more than groups today.
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Most music sucks and that isn't any different from back in the day. As electronic music becomes more mainstream the complexity of music will increase. Originally Posted by Hokie CPA
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The generation before always says the next generation's music is garbage. In 30 years we'll be talking about what geniuses Carly Rae Jepson and Cher Lloyd were. Originally Posted by BayouGobbler
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I contend that if *N Sync had gotten into some really good drugs, they'd have been as diverse and complex as the Beatles! Originally Posted by AbsolutHokie04
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Except that I was a teen in the 80s and, as much as I may like the music of the 80s, I never once tried to pretend that it was any better than my parents' music. I developed a real appreciation for the music of the 50s and the 60s. I could easily lose myself in a Duran Duran-Madonna-Go Gos sort of medley and be happy with it, but when I want to appreciate real talent, there's no substitute for the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Cream, or even Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett or Elvis Presley. Originally Posted by AbsolutHokie04
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