Pop music gains meaning because everyone's an idiot? - tspirit99
So, let me get this straight. The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson,
etc. made a lot of pop music. Was their music really bad but loved purely
because of how it was packaged and sold? Because it was well packaged and
marketed. Do people still love the music these singers made simply because
they heard it do damn much? Or did they make legitimately good music
despite the fact it was aimed at the mainstream? There's often a tendency
to say music is bad simply because it's modern but some of today's pop acts
will be classic artists down the road and everyone will be singing their
praises. Part of the reason is because a lot of the mediocre and bad
popular music from the past is forgotten and the better music stands the
test of time. So, people imagine music was better in the past when it
really wasn't and dismiss all modern music just because it's modern. Listen
to a replay of Casey Kasem's old countdowns and you'll hear how bad a lot
of older music really was. - Emma Ah
I do not listen to the radio AT ALL because I select the music I listen
to. Radio is for the masses of sheep. - accousticdecay
Smart people do not know how to filter what they listen... Real music
involves science deeper, much deeper than modern songs. Take for example
Pink Floyd. Their songs are a pleasant mixture of science (of the music)
and philosophy (lyrics).
Don't believe me? Google it up. - PhiloxephusTV
I cannot listen to pop music. In the car, I go straight to Pandora and
decide between really old "rap" music (Sugarhill gang), classical (like
mozard, vivaldi, even beethoven or bach), death metal (chop suey, avenged
sevenfold), comedy (bo burnham mostly), classic rock (queen, beatles), etc
(scissor sisters, lilly allen).
I am often with my friends and they put on pop music and it just drains
life from me. It's always the same song but different words. There's always
the same chord progressions and synthetic percussion... it's really sad.
I love all of these other genres because they're just more interesting.
Also, this: You're not an artist if you make millions of dollars by
performing songs that people wrote just for you to perform. Justin Bieber
is an example of this. - waawamellon
I personally do not listen to the radio, so I don't listen to pop music.
I'm the kind of person who doesn't know why everyone is singing that song
in the car. I like to select my music and listen to what I like, but it
takes time. Most people don't pay attention, they listen to music in their
car, it sounds good, they like it. Not everyone wants to put time and
efforts into picking music, like not everyone wants to put time into
gardening, fixing cars or reading books. I'd rather pick my music than play
golf, but I'm pretty certain others would choose golf. Is it a bad thing?
Meh. As long as people are happy. There is no "bad music", there is what
you like and what you don't like. Some people like the complexity of jazz
and others just want dubstep. Of course, you can decide not to buy into the
industry and look for real artists, but we're back at the "efforts and
time" argument. - Eden Zak
I was telling a music therapist I tried this, and he thought I was crazy...
This is so obvious to so many people, and I cannot go to a store in my
neighborhood by being inflicted pop music on me...eyeroll...thank you for
vindicating my sanity.... - Kristina Johnson
To me people who listen to pop just doesnt have a defined music taste( they
dont know what to listen) - HankieDude17
The thing that people don't understand is that what differenciates "pop
music" from real music is that "pop" is made for the big money. Real
artists actually have passion and their pieces aren't there for ANYTHING
excepting being there. Sure, real artists want a bit of money so they can
live on and make some more music without being thrown out of their
appartment, but a true artist's goal is not being rich.
Pop "artist" : Making money and becoming popular in a short amount of time
Real artist : Creating pieces that will last throughout the ages
Pop "piece" : There to surrender people to give money to being entertained.
Real art : There for no reason other than being there and being what it is. - Rokusan Sangen
The radio is a horrible torture device and I know a lot of people who like
it. They even voluntarily play pop music. I can understand liking a song
that I do not like, but any song played every day becomes horrible torture. - jas16899
Don't like it? Don't listen, stupid. - Tatiana Covington
Pop music is like a clear pound. How you reflect off of it says volumes
more about you than about the song itself.
I thinks thats the beauty of it: Doesn't have to have some clear
overinflated objective mission or meaning. Its allows for a depth of
subjectivity in it's "shallowness." - Chris Mowry
i don't like pop music nevermind the media i only hear a wide range of
music when it comes to video games - adamhouse9999
Pop music is shit. Everything they make nowadays are remix`s of older songs.
Just overall decline in quality. "Musicians today seem to be less
adventurous in moving from one chord or note to another, instead following
the paths well-trod by their predecessors and contemporaries." - Dashed
Can't get away from it? I don't even know half the "artists" he mentioned.
Lord? I'm literally ignorant of who that is. Just think for yourself and
make your own decisions. You can't be lazy in your quest for music because
you will never discover the hundreds of thousands of groups the mainstream
media is pretending do not exist. What you put in, you get out. Spend the
time and effort to find artists like Yossi Sassi and Cynic and Opeth and
Samsara Blues Experiment and whoever else you might enjoy, and you will
understand immediately that you have been wasting a portion of your life up
to that point. - racewiththefalcons1
AH that's your problem. Stop listening to the radio. Build your own music
collection and put it on shuffle when you're in the car or make a Pandora
station with artists you actually like. There is no reason to listen to
music other people want you to listen to aka the radio. I gave up the radio
a looooooong time ago. - Savanah Mick
we have all turned into the generation we all fear we will be come
wait what? - KingBash
I wholeheartedly agree with this.
I'm someone who mainly listens to heavy metal, and hates pop music...
... but after hearing a song so many times, I eventually like it. - Kelsie LeCrone
Subscribed because I like the way you apply logical thinking, science and
psychology to the table. However, this could hardly be news to anyone who
is remotely aware of their surroundings and the society they live in... or
could it? We are lazy and we want others to pick what to like for us, the
market creates people that are willing to exploit this. We are also lazy
about other things... like how we use the web. We want everything to be in
one place, but we are not willing to think of the power we give those who
manage these all-engulfing systems. - z0uLess
I don't know what anybody sees in Roar, but I don't blame or hold it
against people who like it. Sadly, I was led to this video by an extremely
condescending article that identified particular songs as objectively bad.
Just use Pandora. If you don't like the song, down goes the thumb and you
never have to hear it again. - cyanmanta
Shine bright like a diamond! - eddie947
How modern music works. - Nando Pena
I don't listen to radio. - Saus
Pop music has very little meaningful qualities, unless written for some
charitable cause. It all ends up sounding practically the same, with Auto
Tune and totally synthesized instrumentation all par for the course. That's
why I've abandoned it. - Kendra Dehnert
Pop music is artless wank. There, I said it. You can all fling the word
Hipster at me like feces now. - Hittler Did Nothing Wrong
you mean to say that things only become hits because record execs pay for
them to be? therefor anyone and everyone who likes blurred lines is a
fucking sheep?
thanks for giving me another reason not to listen to modern pop. - JR Gracie
When I go on my bus to school this one station plays the same songs about
4 every day. My bus driver won't change it and it is blasting loud and he
wont turn it down so I cant do anything about it. I started to feel like my
school and the radio station was trying to brainwash me to like popular
music and I felt I was the only one In my school who wasn't going crazy
over pop music or buying any merchandise. - BenThePadlin
as an anime fan, it the same with anime songs. after you hear one picee 3ed
opining for 20 times you will love it - Almozayaf Roman
Its pretty easy to turn off a radio and TV. I don't listen to any of this
'slave' music lol - Ben Dol
That's why vgms are superior, lmao! Jk! Game music is awesome, but to each
their own! - Onij Jokuma
There are certainly pop songs which are popular because of how inherently
catchy they are, not necessarily just based on constant exposure, though
that plays an important role too, serving to magnify the popularity.
Certainly there are songs which would not be popular under any
circumstances. This 'stockholm syndrom'-like effect reminds me of the well
known musical concept of accessibility. The effect ubiquity plays largely
depends on how accessible, or readily liked, the music is. The most
accessible songs are magnified the most by constant exposure, while others
less so. I have a question, though, regarding music appreciation: Do we
like a song that we are constantly exposed to because we are noticing
elements of songs that we may have missed on the first few listens? For
example, I used to hate a lot of rap music, but when I gave it a chance I
found that it was not necessarily the beat or even the lyrical content that
I liked, but things as subtle as the assonance and stucture. I also started
liking the song before I recognized the reasons I liked it. I make this
distinction because people on the radio might only understand "yes, I like
it" or "no, I don't." So is it that we are liking it because constant
exposure and recognition makes us like it, or is it because we are
beginning to appreciate the song on a different level? Do certain songs,
which we would classify as more accessible, contain more elements which are
appreciable, and would that not make them better (though not easy to
recognize as good at face value)? I would assume we will like most anything
more by exposure, as the video contends, but the capacity of the song to be
well liked is heavily influenced by the components which we can begin to
appreciate after several listens. I would imagine that is one of the
defining qualities of a good pop song. And once more, to reiterate, you do
not have to even recognize exactly what you like about it: it can be
subconscious. - akipina
This explains why I dont care for pop music. I dont listen to the radio,
or look for pop music online, or really even go out much... - Andrew Sheneman
Only Micheal Jackson is the pop music/artist I hear, despise pop music &
many other mainstream shite. But then again, I do see myself a music, well
a Metal elitist with few other genre tastes.
The only radio station I hear is the Classical station which is KUSC. - TriforceOfTheGods80
Mormons are fascists - Tony N
Yeap! This pretty much sums it up... - Branko Šabarić
Hmm... I instantly liked Dark Horse, Blurred Lines and I Got a Feeling...
But Fancy and Problem took me a while. - YouCantScareME
I can only listen to pop music on the radio, because if i were to actually
pay attention to it, i'd realize it's pretty basic. - stickdrawer360
8:32 omg i lost it. - Yoshi SF
WHY DOES THIS GUY SOUND LIKE CGP GREY???????? - renaebm1
I know that the Hit Song Science application and other variations of it
(Mixcloud, MusicXray, and BandMetrics) have bee used by the Music Business
for years. These apps are used to predict success based on algorithms (also
why a lot of pop music these days sounds the same or is highly derivative
of older, successful artists). - reavertor
you missed the most important part of the equation - market domination by
only a few companies that own radio stations, cable conglomerates, movie
and TV studios, theme parks and burger joints. the music is the produt, and
they can slot it in, everywhere. - Alison Johns
Holy shit, why does he speak exactly like guy from Vsauce? Like it
extremely bothers me. - Brandon Morris
It's true. The radio beats you into submission regarding their monthly
selection of 5 songs deemed worthy of all the air time. If only I weren't
too lazy to make cds for my commute. - Fiy Ade
What is the difference between music that is meaningful because its musical
and music that is meaningful because it is popular when they both create
the same feeling although are derived differently. Meaning... What is the
significance of this? I take it the real point is in how one would feel
knowing that what they liked is liked because others want them to like it
and not because one would inherently like it. What the masses suggest is
that they don't care why or how they feel what they feel only that they
just do. Maybe that is the source of all global issues? Maybe? - George Erfesoglou
Sir, you need to calm down your video. You are trying to squeeze
waaaaaaaaayy too much into it. Calm. It. Down. Calmitdown. - A.J. The Shifter
Not a decaf zip = not on my phone. - casemods
mmmmk do dis guy ave a rat tail/ponytail ting goin on in da back or
sumting? - mmmgorgeous