Billboard charts fuel the mainstream market, identifying safe bets for movie soundtracks, commercials and background music, all of which ensure that a popular song is impossible to avoid. I am familiar with almost every subgenre of the 60s and 70s. Enough story time, let’s react to the video. The Sound of (Pop) Music: Too Loud, Too Much the Same. Listening to pop music can be like paying attention to current events—it keeps you up-to-date on the cultural attitudes of the present. ( Log Out /  The easiest way to adjust the sound is to pick one of the presets, like "Rock" or "Pop." I was just bored and wanted an escape from my humdrum life. Shout out to my good friend and Topaz level Patron, Patrick. I wasn’t listening to this music with friends the first time I listened to it. But just because you might be listening to Rock most often doesn't mean it will be the "Rock" option will sound the best to you. Seriously though, what happened to a lot of these musicians? Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Good music helps too. It’s Safe. Subjecting the music to an intense algorithm, researchers found that “pop songs have become intrinsically louder and [blander] in terms of the chords, melodies and types of sound used.” Put simply, the "musical pool" of sounds and rhythms used by pop … I like when men wear mod, hippie, punk, and glam rock inspired clothing. Not music related, but wouldn’t surprise me if this person and their friend went to concerts together. I think a bit of why that is because people start to like something the more they hear it and get familiar with it. Popular music is called that because it is popular, not necessarily bad. Vocal fry. I still love these rock stars’ style and aesthetic and it still inspires me. I know a lot of people in the classic rock fandom and they got interested in classic rock either as children or in their early teens. 'Er, no Dad, you're just saying that because you're old. As these songs get watered down, they become cheap and easy fuel for the music business because they appeal to the lowest common denominator and thus reach a wide audience. Not only that, it has negative effects on your brain, too — if you're chiefly a pop music fan, you're likely to be less creative than any other kind of music lover. Pop Vs. Popular Music . My phone has everything I need. I was unlucky enough to have been a pre-teen in the ringtone rap era. Unsurprisingly, they found that modern pop is a watered-down version of what John, Paul, George and Ringo used to rock the charts with. That noise at the back of Britney Spears's throat, the lizard-like rasp, or creak, she uses … Well, that’s me to a T. I first started really absorbing classic rock info when I was a teenager, but I know a lot of people who are my age who have listened to classic rock since they were teenagers whose music tastes have evolved and changed and they listen to other stuff more often, nothing wrong with that. I am gaining respect as a classic rock blogger. Bruce Springsteen said it well, “There’s 57 channels and nothin’ on.” Or more like “In the future there will be 500 TV channels… but nothing to watch!” as said by Timmy Turner in Fairly Odd Parents. I like early metal and hard rock a lot. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I like skinny men with long hair or a giant afro. Aussie musical comedy trio The Axis of Awesome famously skewered pop music sameness in their “Four Chord Song”, which shows how countless hits (leading all the way back to The Beatles) have used the same progression of four chords. I feel lied to. Now that I listened to 50 Cent’s song, I remember it now – it was crap. Where’s the disco? I’ve listened to some great music made today. It’s very annoying when some older fans condescend and put young fans on the spot or act like we can’t possibly know obscure information. Our popular music is literally being dumbed down. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Did you parents ever come into your room when you a teenager playing music and ask why pop songs all sound the same nowadays? Punk rock! Its not always a good representation, but tomorrow these tunes will be seen as classics. Yup! In the mid-20th century, the music evolved and then came free jazz, which was a big influence on prog rock with its complex time signatures and improvisation. Try out different settings while you listen to music to figure out which one sounds best to you. I still strive to listen to new stuff all the time and keep my mind open. Like a Pokemon, I evolved into my final form, “Classic Rock Angie Moon”. A time right before the recession; when the Wii was a cutting edge console; when the only cool phone was a flip phone; mp3 nearly killed vinyl, CDs, and cassettes; and when the memes were viral videos on YouTube. Every little bit helps. Chip in some money on Patreon (monthly donation) or Ko-Fi (one-time donation). Time changes. Honestly, I don’t even really watch TV there. It is tempting to confuse pop music with popular music. It’s a good thing that we have the internet now. As for the hormones running wild… Yes, I did have crushes on all these old and dead rock stars and it definitely affected what I found attractive in men. That’s the age I was when I started falling in love with the classic rock era and wishing I lived in it. It wasn’t like I had no exposure to the era or the music of the time. No surprise. It’s not about the music anymore. I haven’t seen a lot of people in the fandom who got into classic rock in their late teens or 20s, but it’s still possible. 3. “The Beatles in their day were absolutely panned by the cultural elite.”. That’s something that I don’t see in a lot of pop music: feeling. What is a masculine personality or brain? I am not really into modern poppy dance sort of stuff, but when I started watching Drag Race, I started thinking “hey, this music isn’t terrible” after a while and then, “Wow this is catchy, I’m going to listen to all the Drag Race music on repeat… And now I’m shouting ‘Miss Vanjie’ over and over again.”. If we care about our culture — and if we care about our minds — we'll vote with our ears. Words to Describe Music or Musical Instrument. It’s much more democratic now and you can hear from people with many different points of view. Take this fake pop song for example. The majority of people my age listen to what’s current, so that’s why a lot of examples used are more modern. I wasn’t even a thought in my parents’ brains when my favourite music came out. If you look at the Grammys, it took decades to get a rock category – so this means if classic rock bands were being recognised, it wasn’t for their best work. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Sure you'll likely always have your flavor of the week four chord song. I read this question and I thought it said, “Why does Eastern music sound weird to Western cats?” I thought it was hilarious. The wrong feel. In 2008, Adrian North of Scotland's Heriot-Watt University published the largest study yet of musical taste, involving 36,000 people, 60 countries and three years of work. Kicking it, though, is way more important than you thought. Of all these songs, I think the only one I’ve listened to lately was “Temperature” by Sean Paul. I have definitely met older people who are really open minded and enjoy newer stuff. The study also found that pitch content has decreased … Pop music is in trouble – it all sounds the same and people will do just about anything to avoid having to pay for it. I just wanted to be free from living in the conformist and restrictive small town I went to secondary school in. Other than that, my parents would play a Motown and disco music in the car sometimes, but mostly stuff in Spanish, my mum is Venezuelan and my dad, while he isn’t Hispanic, he has a love for the cultures of Latin America and speaks Spanish perfectly. However, one group of listeners showed a genuine and significant lack of creativity: pop music lovers. Pop music has become melodically less complex, using fewer chord changes, and pop recordings are mastered to sound consistently louder (and therefore less dynamic) at a rate of around one decibel every eight years. Classic Rock: More than meets the eye… and ear! I remember walking down the street in a vintage looking outfit and someone in their 60s stopped me and said that I reminded them of a friend back in the day. “So you ever notice how music was just better in the past? Or buy my merch or my photography prints on RedBubble. This is totally optional, but extremely helpful. And like that acronym, CRAM, I crammed a lot of classic rock knowledge into my head over that decade. I didn’t like today’s masculinity, I liked the more feminine masculinity that the rock stars had in the 60s and 70s – not being afraid to be in touch with their feminine side. My favourite on the list is “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day. I’m always looking at YouTube. These findings make sense though, your teens and young adult years are about finding yourself and figuring out what you want in life. I think by this point, I was starting to get tired of chart music because it gave me headaches and it sounded meaningless. No instruments are played. But right now pop music has a lot of variation to it, from retro styled dance beats, edm, rap, and indie that are all making their way into the main stream. I’ve had way more positive experiences though with people in their 50s and 60s saying that they learned something new from me. Modern Pop Is Engineered To Hook You. Let’s take a look at what was popular when I was in middle school, so ages 11-13. Rock and roll values to me are freedom and individuality. If the oldies stations still continue to be rock-centred, I can see this on the classic rock station, but I don’t think I want to hear it on there anytime soon because I’ll start to feel old. It takes me a bit longer to get into new music and for it to grow on me, unless the band really reminds me of classic rock bands of the past. Like a lot of millennials, I don’t have cable, too expensive and it’s redundant. I’d rather have been this age in the late 50s or early 60s, music wise. I have a nice wardrobe full of clothing that makes me look like I came out of a time machine. People were talking about Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda" cover art way before the song dropped, and they only really discussed the song when the incendiary video followed. In other words, all pop music sounds the same now. And scientists have confirmed it. He discovered that the most common characteristic among all genre listeners was creativity. Other than that, I don’t really like any of the other songs. Anyone who listens to pop radio regularly has probably been hit with this realization at one point or another – a ton of pop music sounds very similar. Loved this post and want to see more great posts like this and show your appreciation for The Diversity of Classic Rock? For me, most mainstream pop music seems to be the usual love song, break up song (sad and the I’m-getting-over-it phase), and the "pumped" song. “Also, the music that we connect to in our teenage years doesn’t actually have to be popular at the time.”. I agree that (specifically, mainstream) music today is drivel compared to great songwriters of the past. Mine aren’t exactly the most exciting. It is far more influential than computers, television and movies in shaping how kids grow up. You know my feelings about most modern music, if you read my post reacting to Rolling Stone’s 100 best songs of the century. I can’t be a contrarian and say “wrong.”. I was an atheist around a lot of religious nuts. I can’t forget my headphones when I leave the house, but that’s more because I have anxiety and don’t want to talk to anyone. Ten years later, I think that teenage self would be proud. She’s not talentless, but meh, this song bores me. I remember a lot of these songs, but there are a few that I don’t remember like “Disco Inferno” by 50 Cent, sorry I only know The Trammps’ one. Is classic rock my drug? A project called the Million Song Datasetinitially launched in 2011 by Columbia University set out to aggregate metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks and use it to discover trends and other useful information. The list below shows a few examples which we will revisit later in the article: Your guitar sounds out of tune or won’t stay in tune; Your guitar sounds out of tune, but only when you play in certain places on the neck Thank you! I’m sure we’ll have people in 50 years decrying the new music and wishing they were back in the days of vaporwave and anime intro music. My love of classic rock didn’t take place in a vacuum. ", thus avoiding the trap of "what is not my favorite genre is worth less than every worthless thing". Emotionally, I was a rebellious teenager who wanted to leave home and the music of the classic rock era definitely spoke to me. I especially hated the music that year and I remember all my classmates in grade 8 listening to obnoxious music like “Soulja Boy” that gave me headaches. I was lucky enough to see some musicians I like in concert, which was a real treat. When I was about 11 or 12, I started watching VH1 Classic and loved listening to hard rock from the 70s. I love how music back then was a lot more poetic, with quite a few singer/songwriters of the time being published poets. Besides critics being closed minded and stuck in their ways, I think a large reason was because of racism. Today’s Pop will be remembered as the music of our time; it will be looked back upon as a part of our culture, who we are, and where we are as a society. I’ve also learnt a lot about it and listened to hundreds of amazing albums, often coming back to my familiar favourites. Basically, this means that fewer sounds are being used in music, leading to a sameness of sound. Who you are, where you were born, and most interestingly, when in your life you first heard the music that you now like.”. I’m not going to write a long history of jazz music, but in a nutshell, it was invented by black musicians in New Orleans in the 1890s, and spread from there. Generally, if I’m going to listen to any music released in the time I’ve been on this planet, I’d prefer the late 90s and early 2000s. Take a look at the Rock Hall and how they ignore progressive rock bands, and generally any band that didn’t have fame in America. It's that culture that's rotting our minds. Don’t like any of the top 20. I didn’t forget this song. Who am I to tell someone that the music that makes them happy shouldn’t make them happy? Today’s pop music is largely the same with a combination of keyboard, drum machine and computer software greatly diminishing the creativity and originality. But that says more about the industry than it does about you. ( Log Out /  Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I have some of my favourite records. 2. The music we like in our youth, we like for life.”, Daniel Levitin wrote in This is Your Brain on Music, “Fourteen is sort of a magic age for the development of musical tastes.”. I don’t think 14 year old me would have fully understood everything in the music I listen to. Kelly Clarkson’s a bit too poppy for me. Of course this is what many curmudgeoney music listeners have been saying for years, but now there’s actually scientific evidence to back it up. I have to be careful not to look through decades I didn’t live through with rose tinted glasses. I can imagine it now… Me in the nursing home listening to music that’s over a century old. Bad pop music is a harder habit to kick than you think. All of us teenage classic rock fans wanted to learn everything we can. In the video, a comparison is made between listening to music and taking drugs. The older generations look down on the current generation’s pop culture, calling it deviant or noise. Every dollar helps. And this isn’t something that’s only happens in your city: Adele’s music … There are so many really dreadful sounding recordings coming out, the Audiophiliac ponders the reasons why. Welp, I’ve been busted. The “cultural elite” are largely older and kind of stuck in their ways (what this video’s about and is getting at). Makes sense, it brings back good memories. Following is a concise list of words you can use to describe types of music. ( Log Out /  If you cannot afford to support The Diversity of Classic Rock, there are many free ways to support the blog: following my blog and social media, liking posts, sharing posts, leaving nice comments, or sending your music for review. ( Log Out /  Pop music doesn't sound all the same though. I was far left, while everyone around me was right wing. Timbral quality peaked in the 60’s and has since dropped steadily with less diversity of instruments and recording techniques. This music isn't even music anymore; it's become a platform for inflammatory music videos that only detract from the musical experience or, in most cases, distract from the total absence of a genuine musical experience. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Why your favorite artists' recordings could have terrible sound quality. Pop music makes up the largest part of consumed music today. What are the memories though for young people who primarily listen to classic rock? That’s what I write all about, but I’m striving to include more stuff on rock bands of today that keep that classic rock spirit alive. I don’t hear about them anymore. Researchers measured the variety of words, chord variations and volume of songs across the decades sine the 1950s. And despite common sense, songs aren't played because they are popular; they're played to make them popular. We are like little sponges. To be honest, I wasn’t paying much attention to the top 40 from this point on, so I don’t remember a lot of these songs. I think you answered your own question as to why a lot of modern music sounds bad in comparison to older: digital processing, including dynamic range compression, used to increase volume at the expense of clarity and quality (see Loudness War - probably a thread or two on here on that as well). This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I also love the classic, Mr Brightside, which is still on the charts, 13 years later. A decade later, I still love classic rock, but I’m a bit more mature and not so much teenage fangirl about it, thank goodness. In case you've tuned out of Top 40 radio lately (and we wouldn't blame you if you did), we're happy to fill you in: all pop music sounds the same. It’s a pattern you see all the time. I’d rather listen to “Disco Duck” than “Gucci Gang”. “It turns out that your taste in music as an adult is not fully governed by objective qualities in the music itself, rather it’s heavily governed by your biographic information. Overall, a young bunch, but diverse. Ok, before answering the question, I have to first say something kinda silly. I loved that song when it came out and I still love it today. A lot of them have part time jobs or an allowance and live with their parents, so they have money to spend on stuff or parents to beg to buy stuff for them or take them to concerts. Getting the right 'feel' on a track is probably the single most important consideration … Then again, I’ve definitely seen names that have been forgotten about in Billboard Charts of the 60s and 70s. Teenage me wanted a life that is as close to the 60s as possible and one where I see the world. Finally, we get to 2007, the last year I’m analysing. That's why it matters when it's getting worse. Learn how your comment data is processed. If the formulas stop paying off for the industry, we might get real music back into the mainstream. I think you should rephrase your question to, "Why is most pop music so bad? There isn’t as much risk taking and creativity today and music seems to be formulaic. Unfortunately, there's no end in sight. I can’t say I listen to any of these songs on a regular basis. Soft: a soft sound is quiet and pleasant to listen to “Jazz music, the music that was popular with the youth of that era, received an even more punishing appraisal”. I guess so. I do a lot better with music that came out decades before I was born. The rare moments when I do have cable, I’m usually at my Baby Boomer parents’ place or at my early Generation X in-laws’ place. The first thing you should do is identify in exactly what way the guitar sounds bad. Get The Thoughty2 Book: http://bit.ly/thoughtybookJOIN The PRIVATE Thoughty2 Club & Get Exclusive Perks! The video also talks about how nursing home patients feel better when they listen to music they grew up with. So I guess this video’s right. I really like Amy Winehouse and she was a real standout artist of the 2000s. Music can nourish our minds like almost nothing else, so when a mega-industry is devoted to selling the least inspired music they can, they're short-changing all of us. Personally, I’d rather listen to Rainbow’s “Since You Been Gone” from 1979 than Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”. There is nothing bad with trying to use dynamic compression in the creation of music, except when abused it breaks the laws of physics. Now let’s go back to 2007… Clock all the references in this Bojack Horseman clip. Not only that, it has negative effects on your brain, too — if you're chiefly a pop music fan, you're likely to be less creative than any other kind of music lover. Moving on…. I wouldn’t say I truly found myself until I was 20. I’m laughing, but I think the guy has a point. When I was 13, I started listening to indie music instead and felt a bit relieved, but that phase didn’t last long. The thumbnail reads, “Your tastes are stuck at age 14.” Well, I can’t say that’s entirely wrong. It’s radio, tv, in the grocery store you shop & it’s blasting from the car that passes you on street on your way to work. Alexa, don’t play “Despacito,” play more Zeppelin. At #39, I saw “Holiday”, another great song. It is a not-so-well kept secret that the vast majority of pop … Here are some songs I’ve been enjoying from that time period: “Neuroscience has confirmed what data analysis has found. Physics states … He asked each participant to rank their favorite genres of music. 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The only good songs on the Hot 100 I see were at #74 and #91, “Rehab” by Amy Winehouse and “Snow (Hey Oh)” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. That isn't a frivolous thing, though: Researchers have thoroughly documented that pop music is the "heavy equipment" of the adolescent years. Looking through the rest of the Hot 100, there are a couple guilty pleasures like Sean Paul’s “We Be Burning” – but I only listen to those songs once in a while. It makes sense to market music to teenagers. Research proves what our parents have been saying all along: Modern pop music really is worse than older generations of pop music. Since the 1950s, vocal timbre — the character of the voice — has become less diverse and pitch content has become totally monochromatic (fewer chord and melodic variations), while everything has gotten much louder overall. According to my Facebook page demographics, ~2% of fans are 13-17, 35% are 18-24, 32% are 25-34, 18% are 35-54, 10% are over 55. At the same time, even the dumbest music of the 60s and 70s doesn’t come close to how dumb the music sounds today. It’s the new bands’ time to shine. Whenever I take those gender tests or whatever, they usually think I’m a man or that I’m masculine. So these chart pops up and it’s explained that childhood influences are stronger for women than for men. Culture writers try to remind you of this fact by comparing the modern drivel that is pop music these days to the great songwriters of the past like for example, The Beatles.”. If you look at an AC/DC concert, however, you’ll see that the instruments are being played with power and feeling. 3. Again, I remember most of them, but I don’t care about them. 1. All the music lovers won’t be having any difficulty while explaining various music notes, instruments or types of music. Back to the story about YouTube, so I was suggested this video called “Why pop music sounds bad.” Being a music blogger and fan, I had to watch this and give my reaction. Then again, I wouldn’t say I’m conventional at all, I just do what I want. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I can do the makeup styles of the 60s. If I was a 35-year-old in 1925, there’s a good chance … I admit, I’ve definitely listened to this in the past couple of days. They’re definitely not the first thing I’d put on at a party. I’m just me. I guess teenage me had some great taste… In music, not in clothes. Not only that, it's been used to brainwash listeners through predatory marketing strategies across all media channels. Change ). It’s all about the version of themselves they sell, who they claim … When I was a preteen, my parents would put on the oldies station in the car, and at the time you’d hear songs from the 50s and 60s mostly, with a bit of 70s thrown in once in a while. I usually find that with these studies, I relate more to men than to women, I wonder if it’s because I’m on the spectrum. Why dismiss it because the year it was made in begins in 20 and not 19? There is sentimental value put on the past (although I don’t look at my teen years fondly, they were depressing). A survey of other research on music reveals that pop music has gotten worse over the last 50 years. Back to the story about YouTube, so I was suggested this video called “Why pop music sounds bad.” Being a music blogger and fan, I had to watch this and give my reaction. It's that culture that has music critics like Ted Gioia claiming that music criticism has devolved into lifestyle reporting. The thumbnail reads, “Your tastes are stuck at age 14.” Well, I can’t say that’s entirely wrong. I would like to elaborate that it's not necessarily that there aren't any … I can still think that it gives me a headache or it makes no sense to me, but it’s important to keep in mind that there’s more to music than what’s on the radio. That doesn't necessarily mean that stupid people love pop — just that pop trains us to expect less from our artistic and creative lives. T o dislike pop music is to be pop culture’s grumpy old man, but as it turns out, lots of us are grumpy old men — even people who are young women the rest of the time.. All Diversity of Classic Rock content will remain free, but Patrons get some nice perks, like early access, birthday cards, Skype calls with me, and exclusive behind the scenes posts. This, to me, is the worst crime of all. Good point. My dad’s twin brother really likes Pitbull for some reason, but he also really loves “Roundabout” by Yes – totally different stuff. I can’t say that’s true for me. By using “timbre” to distinguish and grade songs, the study found that on a … Pop music has become slower -- in tempo -- in recent years and also "sadder" and less "fun" to listen to. Translation: most pop music now sounds the same. Certainly takes me back to that time.

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