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My friend just sent me this
Got me thinking about a quality of modern pop music that I don't think there was so much of in the past -
I'll now struggle to describe it but it would include qualities like
"darkness"
atmospherics
filtered chords, hinting at barely suppressed emotions
minimalist drums
big build ups, explosions of hi-hats
"EPIC"-ness (but married to sultriness)
I suppose this is to do with dance music merging with pop music to some extent.
Is this a zeitgeist thing? Do people need heightened, portentuous music?
A tune like "Happy" by Pharrell stuck out a mile, with its faux-innocence.
Got me thinking about a quality of modern pop music that I don't think there was so much of in the past -
I'll now struggle to describe it but it would include qualities like
"darkness"
atmospherics
filtered chords, hinting at barely suppressed emotions
minimalist drums
big build ups, explosions of hi-hats
"EPIC"-ness (but married to sultriness)
I suppose this is to do with dance music merging with pop music to some extent.
Is this a zeitgeist thing? Do people need heightened, portentuous music?
A tune like "Happy" by Pharrell stuck out a mile, with its faux-innocence.