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Originally Posted by Whatsitoosit
This topic can be broken down into so many layers (to the point that it's almost not worth discussing). If pop was seen as generic and generic was viewed as garbage on a grand scale then the formula would change in order to satisfy the people buying those records. Sometimes the generic stuff is necessary depending on who the audience is... not every new song needs to re-invent the wheel, I can dig a familiar format with a new brand of vocals being incorporated now and then. Also, I don't think Pop is the only genre guilty of using a cookie cutter format as a foundation... every genre has there rules and guidelines to adhere to if it's going to be taken seriously. If a person thinks Pop is crap then they probably just don't like Pop music as I just don't like Country music.
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Quite right, pop is not the only genre guilty of using a cookie cutter format as a foundation. Many bands in many genres can afford to be generic because generic is A, easier, and B, what the audience are content with. So yeah...there's bland, innocuous genericism everywhere. But chart music is one of the places where it DOES exist.