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Why does most new music suck?

Ok I will have some exclusions to my statement. I'm not talking about classical or jazz. My comment is mostly pointed to rock and pop releases. Don't even get me started on rap.... I don't consider it music. I will admit that I'm an old foggy but come on, where are some talented new groups? I grew up with the Beatles, Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix etc. I sample a lot of new music and the recordings are terrible. The engineers should be fired for producing over compressed shrill garbage. The talent seems to be lost or doesn't exist. I have turned to some folk/country or blues music. It really is a sad state of affairs....Oh my god, I'm turning into my parents.
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electroslacker
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I think the brain remembers "Firsts" and kind of loses track of repetition. I record the late-night guest bands, and most are derivative of my own "Firsts," but that doesn't mean they're worse.

I agree that Radio Paradise does a stellar job of blending old and new, and the experience is that most of the blend is interesting and worthy. Also agree that WWOZ out of New Orleans is a great way to expand the ears to great music beyond what most of us grew up with.
electroslacker
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It's literally formulistic. A guy named Max Martin in Stockholm has had 21 number one billboard hits in America because he has a formula. His net worth is around 250 million. He does the instrumentation with the hooks, lays down the vocal track, then sells it to Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears,Katy Perry, Pink, Backstreet Boys, etc with the requirement that they sing it exactly like he did on the demo. He rarely uses real instruments.About a quarter of hits are now coming out of Denmark. There's a book on the whole Denmark music factory, or Google his name with New Yorker.
electroslacker
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Whoops- meant Sweden. The book is, The Song Machine, about the industrialization of songwriting and music production. Good book.
electroslacker
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Lowrider57, One of the interesting aspects of the formula is a hook played every seven seconds or less to keep the brain from turning away, which means the product is formulated more for the sensibilities of Skinner Pigeons, rather than tunefulness,meaning, or emotional response.
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