re: Musical taste is dead

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as it almost always has been forever

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Almost. 80s kid here, and I still think pop radio was way beyond where it is now. There was the disposable bullshite like Tiffany and the New Kids, but there were wildly different styles of music represented too. Synth-pop, rap was new and less idiotic, a bunch of 60s and 70s holdovers were still putting out decent stuff, glam metal etc. There also seemed to be a lot hit songs that weren't easily classifiable. "Down Under" "One Night in Bangkok" and "Rock Me Amadeus" come to mind.

I think a big difference is that beats have come to dominate popular music at the expense of melodies, and the beats all sound like they come from the same people using the same software. It's boring to my ears.