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- Dec 15, 2016
I know nothing about music, but
I once asked a music producer this question once and he put it down to the loudness wars where everything is overcompressed, music becomes an undynamic wall of static with nothing for the ears to hook on to. I still don't really understand why people are choosing to process music that way, though.
I remember being really horrified around the millennium that music had taken such a nose dive and no one seemed to care. It was so noticeable.
Aside from bad production I think it's a shift in the whole industry tbh. Even the shitty 90s girl and boy bands we all sneered at had somewhat memorable tunes written by actual humans. Compare to the mainstream pop noise today; it's so formulaic and sounds like it's made by a lazy AI. Its a cheap mass produced version of a handcrafted original. I think it's like the movie industry just making interchangeable remakes and genre shit, because theyre scared to take a risk on originality and would rather have sure-thing lowest common denominator movies. Plus, technology has made it cheaper and easier to make and distribute music, which sounds like a good thing but it probably doesn't do much for quality control.
Fuck, im ready to believe there's a dumbing down agenda. Eradicating authentic culture and replacing it with a beige texture of noisy but bland consumer crap seems too much of a fait accompli to be accidental.
