I think its time for people to abandon chart music and just explore random artists and bands on spoti, bandcamp and other sites. Just pick a random one and tell others if its good like in the old days.
I think its time for people to abandon chart music and just explore random artists and bands on spoti, bandcamp and other sites. Just pick a random one and tell others if its good like in the old days.
My theory is that the proliferation of electronic music tools have allowed non-classically trained people to make music. This has democratized music but has a side effect of outputting lots of musically unsophisticated songs that prioritizes autotuned vocals. You need a good foundation in music theory to write complex songs. The lyrics are also simplistic diary entries of chunni teenagers since it used to be lyricists is its own field. The solution is to provide proper music education to would be songsmiths and musicians.
I dont think you need to be musically educated. I mean The Beatles and Sabbath made complicated music and had no formal training. There has to be an instinct for it. I suspect there are many people with the same electronic tools who have those instincts but dont get the recognition.
I think it’s our increasing need for easy and comfortable entertainment that has resulted in a lot of sameness.
I mean, look at movies. It’s the same IP rehashed over and over and over.
Low risk, high reward, consumers eat it up.