Music is getting worse with time - scientists can prove it now
24.09.2018
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What's better, old music or new music? Many people like old songs better than anything else, and, as it turns out, science can now explain that.
A group of scholars from the Spanish National Research Council examined different aspects of pop music and the way they have changed since 1955. The results are surprising!
Timbre
In music, timbre accounts for the sound color, texture and tone quality. Since 1955, timbral variety in songs went down. This proves that music has become simpler, and more and more songs sound the same today.
Pitch
Music has become melodically less complex.
Loudness
Why is this actually bad? the thing is that when the whole composition is loud, nothing within the song stands out. Punchy moments don't sound powerful enough anymore.
Lyrics
Moreover, modern musicians use the first-person word "I" quite rarely today, which decreases the level of sincerity in music. There has also been a decline in words that emphasize community and society. Over the years, lyrics have become more repetitive, just like the melodies.
What do you think about these facts? Do you like old or new music better? What's your favorite period of music?
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93 Comments
wbharshberger
The older music is much better. That music touched the heart and affected you emotionally. The words had a message with meaning. I can barely hear the lyrics of today's music. And when I see the lyrics in written form, they are repetitious and have little meaning. That's not true for all music written within the past couple of decades, but most of it.
Catherine Tayles
Old music is the best..60's, 70's especially!!!!
Gabby Aberasturi
IMO...those facts sound accurate. It seems as though there is less "art" used in todays music. Ryme does not make music an art, it contributes to the entire package that makes up the art. Now a days, a person can be tone deaf but as long as they can rhyme out loud they are often and ignorantly considered, an artist of music.
Dolly Shaway Kalil
I like the older music. Today you here more loud music, and can hardly here the lyrics!! I do like some of today's music, but not much! To much yelling!!!
DDDonna
Love listening to Yacht Rock!
Darren Hart
Try listening to vocal Trance music, it could change the way you listen to music.
Wayne Roberts
R Yancey, Is that rap with a silent ‘C’???
Vanda Herr
The fourth and fifty songs had eligible words that were so easy to sing and remember. Plus just a band and no theatrical stuff.
R Yancey
Most of modern music isn't really music. Especially "rap music"
Revolting!
neats
Older music is much better more story telling.
Elsy O. Stromberg
The lyrics of older popular music are frequently very meaningful and today the lyrics are unbelievably awful as well as the music.
suejolley
Then there's the rappers who knock out the worse sounds ever and think it's music .
suejolley
Emma Butler, not many
werma
I certainly prefer old music.
Nickey Welsh
Yes older music is much much better.
Eve
Music is like people...there is good and bad regardless of what you are listening to...my preference is 60s rock, country or folk...I just find it easier to sing along.
wyodinosaur
Generally, I think this article is true. But there are many exceptions.
Linda Wardle
wbharshberger, I totally agree with everything you say.
dmarkc
Today's "artists" want to be heard, but many aren't good musicians, so their output is sub-standard, loud and electronically enhanced Bieber says he uses autotune to hit the precise notes. Maybe cause he doesn't sing that well on his own. Some of the best rap is re-purposed old hits. They're what works.