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@akamran @LeslieBurns @plexus Yes, Rick Beato's YouTube channel (in your link) has regular videos where he gives his (highly opinionated 😉) take on the musical quality of recent chart records, in terms of musical complexity - rhythm, melody, harmony etc - style and lyrics etc. He often laments the decline in musical sophistication in popular music across many genres in recent decades, even in artists whose work he otherwise rates highly.  @hengymrohebwlad @LeslieBurns @plexus I haven't seen that many of his videos. But my point was that this was *Sting* saying it in the interview. @LeslieBurns @plexus @akamran BBC TV made a doc about AI a few years ago. Team tried to build a tool to spot possible hit records, based on features of known hits from 60s onwards. Didn't really work, but they found that up to late 90s, they could identify period/style quite well but it was harder to do so later. Seemed to be linked to massive growth in sampling (also homogenisation in industry?). Basically from late 90s, music really did "all sound the same", just as your parents always said.😉  |
@LeslieBurns @plexus that tracks - I saw an interview with Sting from a few years ago and he made the point that the song structures have also become less complex (somewhere in this interview: https://youtu.be/efRQh2vspVc?)
I feel like we're simplifying the things that ought to be complex, and vice versa. Like we're doubly doing it wrong (wrongness squared?)