Modern Pop Music is Boring -- Scientific Proof!

[Runesmith]

Are you claiming the same is not true for more recent pop music?

The link below is not really a counter example, since it's looking at one artist, but I don't care because it's fun:
http://fliiby.com/file/161484/ypzxf7n27y.html

Absolutely not. I'm saying a lot of pop music is based on the same structure, regardless of era. That's the nature of pop music.

[bclewis]

Absolutely not. I'm saying a lot of pop music is based on the same structure, regardless of era. That's the nature of pop music.

Well, yeah, I don't think anyone would argue differently. The thesis of the article I posted is that homogeneity has increased in the last 50 years, rather than staying constant.

[killer_roach]

Early rock n' rollers essentially made careers out of copying (this sounds like a cruel accusation, but I don't mean it as an insult) other musicians at the time. The same goes for blues. Sounds like people are just looking for excuses to insult modern music.

I'd go a step further than you and say that out and out plagiarism was pretty much a given back then.

Again, though, to refer to "pop music" is a huge, huge element of vagueness, being highly subjective and also a moving target. I'd just go by music in general, in which case the overall level of complexity might be orders of magnitude greater in modern music.

[bclewis]

Again, though, to refer to "pop music" is a huge, huge element of vagueness, being highly subjective and also a moving target. I'd just go by music in general, in which case the overall level of complexity might be orders of magnitude greater in modern music.

Perhaps, though I think you may be underestimating the diversity of "music in general" 50 years ago.

[Gowienczyk]

Perhaps, though I think you may be underestimating the diversity of "music in general" 50 years ago.

And people underestimate and assume much about modern music due to a plethora of ignorance and self-righteousness.

I also loathe the evolution of 80s-early 90s Rap into today's Hip-Hop, along with the 70s-80s metal into the screaming/growling/play as fast as you can while you give your band an evil sounding name metal that seems to be more common every day

Because modern hip-hop is just crunk, dirty south and pop rap renditions and modern metal only focuses upon extreme genres and metalcore. No, it doesn't, this is the kind of assumptive schlock that drives me up the wall.

[HeyRiles]

I still like modern music and older music.

Noted

[LoopyChew]

Again, this phenomenon of songs sounding samey is pretty well-documented.

And that it's not comprehensive is further damning evidence.

[darkwinterbeast8]

Of course when I think of boring modern pop music I think of Ke$ha, Gaga, Bieber, and a number of bands along the lines of Fall out Boy.

Shooting fish in a barrel on this part. That being said, I can agree to an extent about pop music being boring, although I like to think that it's more of the fact that these acts don't appeal to what I'm looking for musically and not just them being formulaic.

I also loathe the evolution of 80s-early 90s Rap into today's Hip-Hop, along with the 70s-80s metal into the screaming/growling/play as fast as you can while you give your band an evil sounding name metal that seems to be more common every day (with ever expanding sub-genres).

And here is were you lost me. Tell me how this metal song and this metal song sound alike and are the description you posted above regarding a whole sub-genre of music?

[Lawdog1521]

Modern Pop Music is Boring -- Scientific Proof!

I don't need no machine to tell me that.