Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same

[Boys122]

Slayer, Metallica, Tool, Motley Crue, just to name some.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

A lot of popular music has been dumbed down to appeal to the lowest common denominator.......with success.

 

[Rynie]

If you think about it...pop music isn't made to be popular for an extended period of time. All pop-music has a shelf-life. It's made to be used up and thrown away. I find the social aspect of music pretty interesting. This could be a whole new thread. We use music, especially at an early age, to identify ourselves. Many groups, or cliques, form by a shared love of a type of music. Think about high school: you have your goths, your punks, (we had ropers/cowboys), your thugs, etc. Each group has its own type of music they listen to. Kind of interesting to me. #sociologynerd

 

[Rynie]

Sam I Am...I can't really talk crap. I bang my head to this...1:27 is where the fun begins!
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[Tusan_Homichi]

There's good music still coming out today, but most of it isn't something you'd hear on the radio.

 

[Ultimategamer5567]

Slayer, Metallica, Tool, Motley Crue, just to name some.

This. But also AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy, Whitesnake, Kansas, Atreyu, and Pantera. *just me*

 

[wittenacious]

This. But also AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy, Whitesnake, Kansas, Atreyu, and Pantera. *just me*

Dust in the wind, my friend. All they are is dust in the wind.

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[Ultimategamer5567]

Dust in the wind, my friend. All they are is dust in the wind.

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You need to carry on, my wayward son.

 

[wittenacious]

You need to carry on, my wayward son.

:laugh2:... A most excellent of all possible comebacks. Love it!

 

[Ultimategamer5567]

:laugh2: Most excellent of all possible comebacks. Love it!

Don't be sad, Wittenacious. There'll be peace when you are done.

 

[wittenacious]

Don't be sad, Wittenacious. There will be peace when you are done.

One-upped and done. I am now at peace.


Make that two-upped.

 

[Ultimategamer5567]

One-upped and done. I am now at peace.


Make that two-upped.

Gotta love some Kansas - and I'm only 19!

 

[rkell87]

I think it is funny that all these people complain about rap and pop music and say it is just noise when almost certainly your parents said the same about music you enjoy. I even posted an article about the science behind enjoying music more when you are younger and why people stop liking new stuff coming out citing it isn't as good as the stuff they grew up with but most people decided to disregard the science and continue to believe that there crap is beeter tha our crap and their parents crap.


oh you like the beatles? tell more about how awesome yellow submarine is and how the lyrics make seanse when you aren't high

 

[wittenacious]

Gotta love some Kansas - and I'm only 19!

Kinda thought you were younger than your stated musical tastes would have suggested. Loved the choices. Many your age, and thereabouts, have a strong willingness to like good music... wherever they find it.

Good back 'n' forth, proving you knew you some Kansas. The lil hippie guy is my, "peace (at peace, lol), love and harmony" go-to .gif ... appropriate for the generation of most of the bands you called out, too.

Bands from back in the day, for me.

 

[Ultimategamer5567]

Kinda thought you were younger than your stated musical tastes would have suggested. Loved the choices. Many your age, and thereabouts, have a strong willingness to like good music... wherever they find it.

Good back 'n' forth, proving you knew you some Kansas. The lil hippie guy is my, "peace (at peace, lol), love and harmony" go-to .gif ... appropriate for the generation of most of the bands you called out, too. Bands from back in the day, for me.

Good music is good music, brah. And music never ages. The only difference is, some songs are remembered as very nice to the ears, and others are...less than satisfactory.

 

[Lonestar94]

Same goes for today's "country". Utter trash.

Does anyone else find it sickening that Keith Urban is in the HOF yet the late great Keith Whitley isn't?

 

[Ultimategamer5567]

Same goes for today's "country". Utter trash.

Does anyone else find it sickening that Keith Urban is in the HOF yet the late great Keith Whitley isn't?

Whitley was a great one. But I've always been a huge George Strait fan.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

We use music, especially at an early age, to identify ourselves. Many groups, or cliques, form by a shared love of a type of music. Think about high school: you have your goths, your punks, (we had ropers/cowboys), your thugs, etc. Each group has its own type of music they listen to. Kind of interesting to me. #sociologynerd

I don't think that happened (much) until the middle-late 70's. About the time of disco. I think for pop music's first 20 years, most listened to the same stuff and the Billboard Top 100 ruled the day.

One of the mods here, Juke, told me once that it was about this time period, the late 70's, when music execs began to more forcefully "fit" or "mold" groups. The result was a more homogenius sound, which I really think took hold in the late 80's.

Bands and groups that didn't fit into that same-same mold were cast aside, but they found an audience.

"Splintering" was the result.

The result is you get a lot of groups with a very loyal following but the it's a much smaller following.

 

[Nova]

As a musician (and son of 2 musicians) who has been taught from birth what constitutes 'good music', I can say with confidence that pop music has gotten better these last few years. It's still bad in my opinion, but not as bad as the Backstreet Boys and Nsync at the height of their popularity.

It's a pretty general statement, but on the average, pop music utilizes musical devices more than it has over the last 15-20 years. Typically the lyrical content is completely poor, but pop music has been that way for quite some time now, of course.

 

[Lodeus]

As a musician (and son of 2 musicians) who has been taught from birth what constitutes 'good music', I can say with confidence that pop music has gotten better these last few years. It's still bad in my opinion, but not as bad as the Backstreet Boys and Nsync at the height of their popularity.

It's a pretty general statement, but on the average, pop music utilizes musical devices more than it has over the last 15-20 years. Typically the lyrical content is completely poor, but pop music has been that way for quite some time now, of course.

The thing about that is, they were around when MTV still played music videos. There are a couple popular boy bands around still, One Direction and some other one I cant think of the name right now. If MTV still had TRL and other shows like it, it would be torture to watch.