I've long thought pop music on long term decline, gave it up a long time ago. Popular, commercial radio has long been pretty much dreck for me, didn't get into audio to listen to that.
I've often thought about how difficult writing music would be, how many ways can one string together a limited number of musical notes and still create something novel and fresh. Will every combination or progression of notes be exhausted at some point? I could easily imagine writing a song and at least parts of it would be an exact duplication of some song that came before.
Still, I very much enjoy much contemporary music, virtually none of it being what one would hear on radio. Many contemporary artists producing novel and fresh music, haven't reached any theoretical limit on songwriting yet.
My take is music genres are ever expanding and evolving. Pop music conformity doesn't allow much evolution, one genre dominates for years until another comes along, and the cycle repeats. Pop music NOT WHERE ITS AT. Estimations of the general quality of music for any particular era should not use pop music as their reference, I see far too much of this. I thought we were audiophiles, how many of us listen to the pop music I hear so many complaints about.
I've often thought about how difficult writing music would be, how many ways can one string together a limited number of musical notes and still create something novel and fresh. Will every combination or progression of notes be exhausted at some point? I could easily imagine writing a song and at least parts of it would be an exact duplication of some song that came before.
Still, I very much enjoy much contemporary music, virtually none of it being what one would hear on radio. Many contemporary artists producing novel and fresh music, haven't reached any theoretical limit on songwriting yet.
My take is music genres are ever expanding and evolving. Pop music conformity doesn't allow much evolution, one genre dominates for years until another comes along, and the cycle repeats. Pop music NOT WHERE ITS AT. Estimations of the general quality of music for any particular era should not use pop music as their reference, I see far too much of this. I thought we were audiophiles, how many of us listen to the pop music I hear so many complaints about.