Science Confirms: Pop Music Is Too Loud And Sounds The Same

  On 7/27/2012 at 8:39 PM, joshuatx said:

  On 7/27/2012 at 7:51 PM, chenGOD said:

Stevie Wonder (ok he might not be "pop" per se, but his big hits were certainly in the pop vein), Howard Jones, Billy Joel and so on.

That's not to say that what you write isn't accurate, but there are certainly plenty of really successful pop artists who have written all (or a large portion of) their own material.

 

Oh I completely agree. Prince especially, he's written great songs for others well (Sinead O'Conner for example) and there are still a lot of artists in Top40 writing their own material, and there always have been. I got carried away in mentioning that there are always behind-the-scenes composers to consider, that was an inaccurate blanket statement on my part.

2 words: The Beatles

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

I want your soul,

I want your soul,

I want your soul.

  On 7/27/2012 at 10:18 PM, gmanyo said:

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

I want your soul,

I want your soul,

I want your soul.

Aphex twin is not pop music, and no one's listening to that for the lyrics anyways.

Plus it can be seen as a parody of the banality of pop music.

  On 7/27/2012 at 10:29 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 7/27/2012 at 10:18 PM, gmanyo said:

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

I want your soul,

I will eat your soul.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

Come to daddy.

I want your soul,

I want your soul,

I want your soul.

 

Aphex twin is not pop music, and no one's listening to that for the lyrics anyways.

Plus it can be seen as a parody of the banality of pop music.

Yeah, I know. Just fuckin' around. I think it's actually a parody of The Prodigy and bands like them.

  On 7/27/2012 at 8:54 PM, baph said:

I AM THE TABLE

 

  On 7/27/2012 at 12:49 PM, xxx said:

Old tunes re-recorded with increased loudness, simpler chord progressions and different instruments could sound new and fashionable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

in a minor key

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3xtMZvG2WI

 

lol

Fuck that song. Thank you.

There's a clip of Tim and Eric explaining music theory, and at some point Eric declares 99% of pop songs are based off "Camptown Races." I wish I could find it, this is the only truly relevant time for me to post it.

That other Gotye song is still pleasant imo (the one that just sounds like a Peter Gabriel song)

With "somebody that I used to know" I feel like his voice appeals to people enough to excuse the melody, which is mediocre - on the other hand "video games" by Lana Del Rey is the exact opposite.

  On 7/27/2012 at 3:39 PM, feltcher said:

Guitar music is the same too.

good genre