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Originally Posted by mr dave
I don't fully buy the angle that it's just because X sounds scored hits therefore taking X sounds and putting them in Y single will create another hit. There's a bit more to it than just the sounds, it needs to tap into some sort of social climate or mood. If anything I think the use of familiar sounds are just a way to help spoon feed the 'new' material to the masses by keeping a level of familiarity at play.
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I never thought of it this way but its definitely an interesting point.
As for the fact that simplifying note progressions, chord structures, and timings and
reducing timber makes music more bland, that's ridiculous. Music has a culture like any medium and that culture evolves. If a song can be complicated in its arrangement and establish a feeling or evoke an emotion, than that is awesome. If it can do the same thing with fewer chords and in 4/4 timing, more power to it.
But I do agree with music becoming more loud which seems unnecessary. Its the result of bad audio engineers and producers who (in my opinion) can not find another way to engage the listener and run out of ways to earn their paycheques other than just cleaning up the sound. Most studios today subscribe to this kind of thing; that the mastering process is just cleaning up the sound and maxing out the volume. And its a shame because there is so much more interesting things you can do with today's technology and powerful recording equipment.