Well, we already knew this,
but a recent study has confirmed that Pop Music Is Simpler And Louder than
it used to be.
We sure knew about the loud
part. Just check a CD pressed in the
80’s compared to one pressed last year.
But the study compared
almost half a million songs, and found that melodies have been steadily getting
simpler. And the harmonies are
disappearing.
Do ya think? I mean, how much can
you get out of shouting over an over-driven
power chord? Or talking over drums and
bass?
Gone, it seems, are John
Lennon’s chromatic counterpoints, Keef’s mangling and dangling and tangling, or
Motown’s pedals. Too bad.
The study admits that
today’s dance beats are infectious. They
are.
They also were. It was always about
the beat, but it used to also be so much more.
As the title of the article
says, it sure is infectious. But who
wants a virus? I like music that alters
my DNA.
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