Music

For a long time, melody has been getting gradually supplanted by sound design (timbre) as a focus in music. The theory is melody is finite but timbre is infinite.

I think the root cause is tech accelerating creation & distribution, which makes the production of novelty more competitive. 🎶

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Everyone can sample, nobody knows how to play an actual instrument.

Also, actual musicians are expensive.

Moderate-to-severe symptoms.


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Yea that plays a part for sure, but imo not necessarily bad. Lots of influential musicians & producers who rely completely on feel.

Also can we have actual great singers without autotune again?!

Oh man there are a lot of insanely good gen z singers. Check out Jacob Collier.