Ok so. Let me just start off by saying that I'm just as much a dance-pop music lover as anyone else. and I am Britney Spears fan.
However, I've noticed a trend thats been around in pop music for a little over a decade that I find aggravating and unoriginal.
It seems now a days, pop music doesnt contain ANY real instruments. Not even a real guitar, or a real drum. NOTHING. its practically all 100% electronic music. Synthesizers were never meant to totally repace musical instruments, they were meant to decorate a song along with instruments. I find that to be a bit sad. We have alot of producers in the pop industry who have no musical training, they just play around with a midi keyboard and synthesizers and use already made up beats from the machines and put them and sample them into songs. Theyre not understand keys, modes , scales. or anything technical about music itself. they dont even know how to play an instrument.....and theyre in the MUSIC INDUSTRY AS PRODUCERS. its ludacrous
Now I'm not totally against only having synethizers in a song. As long as its done right. as long as its used to make the sounds of REAL INSTRUMENTS. such as a synthezied violin, a synthizied guitar, a synthized drum beat. but music now a days isn't even doing that. theyre just using the same old recycled "boom boom boom" sounding club beats
I think the 80's had the best pop-dance music when it came to having an equal amount of real music and synthsized music
Madonna's song Dress You Up had a REAL guitar and drum in it. not to mention a nice guitar solo.
Her song Material Girl also had real drums and guitar
Her song Papa Dont Preach. had a few real instruments but alot of synthesized stuff. The difference was the synthesized music sounded like REAL instruments. and it could be played by real instruments
Michael Jacksons songs had real guitars and drums alot of times as well. Most noteably BEAT IT.
Paula Abdul's Straight up was a song with alot of synthesized sounds too but it sounded still alot like REAL music.
Prince had alot of awesome pop songs with real instruments used. especially his guitar such as little red corvette and raspberry beret, Kiss. etc
if you listen to those songs you will see the difference. its REALLY musical.
I just dont understand why pop music has been only using fake instruments (computers and synthesizers) for YEARS now. why can't they bring in musicians to play on their songs along with using synthesizers.
anyone else feel this way? I think they need to stop being lazy and start using more MUSIC in their music.
I definitely agree that producers before had more limited technology so they worked harder to produce a track and be innovative in the studio and use those limited resources to make an exceptional track. Now, it's all handed to them on a silver platter so, yes, they've definitely gotten lazier and their material is most obviously recycled to the point where it has become a bit disgusting.
It's not laziness. There's a whole art to the synthesizer and it's ignorant to say that it takes no effort.
"Real" instruments add a different feel to the song and maybe they don't want that sound in their song. Not every song sounds good with a guitar in it.
It's not laziness. There's a whole art to the synthesizer and it's ignorant to say that it takes no effort.
"Real" instruments add a different feel to the song and maybe they don't want that sound in their song. Not every song sounds good with a guitar in it.
I'm coming back to say more. I don't feel like editing my previous post
Just because a song has "real" instruments doesn't make it "real" music. "Real" music doesn't exist. Songs like Spectrum by Zedd, although synths are the main instrument, show much more musicality than many songs using "real" instruments. And although Zedd is a producer using synthesizers, he is also a skilled musician. Look up his piano version of Spectrum.
I don't think you understnd the concept of something being "musical"; the songs you used as examples are just as musical as songs with synths.
Now if we're talking quality, that's based on opinion. If you don't like synths, fine by me, but don't go around acting like synths were made by Satan and destroyed music like it's a fact. Opinion is never a fact.
Ahem. Have you ever worked with a synthesizer? Have you ever tried to produce something? It's not like you can just press a button and magically a whole song appears. Even if you want to get the exact same synth sound that's in another song, you have to fool around with the synth to get it, it doesn't just pop up.
It's one of the things that bothers me in P!nk songs and that's the fake drums. Particularly on her recent Greg produced tracks.
Most fake drums are either from drum machines or from real drum samples, just compressed. They're practically the same, in fact most fake drums have more pump than real drums which is why electronic music producers prefer it
Oh and just to warn you guys before you go off and sound dumb, a lot of tracks now-a-days still use real instruments. Any guitar is usually real, theres very few fake guitars cause they're hard to mimic, the only pop track I can think of is probably some of Taylor Swifts new stuff and How To Be A Heartbreaker, those sound fake to me, but I could be wrong. Drums are another big one that's sometimes real, espescially in ballads. A synth is practically a piano before messing with it so yea...
This was not made to bash the use of synths at all. Read again, I'm talking about how the use of synths has replaced the use of other instruments that can still be used
This was not made to bash the use of synths at all. Read again, I'm talking about how the use of synths has replaced the use of other instruments that can still be used
Well to disprove you, here's a song that's recent: Last Friday Night
Real Drums (surprised me tbh), Real Saxophone, real hi hats, real snare
Only thing """fake""" about that track is the "guitar" and the synths
It's mostly these hip-hop producers coming up with "trap" productions and it sounding EXTREMELY similar to everyone else's "trap" productions... BUGS ME TO NO END!
Tbh, I have a guitar and can play a few songs and know a bunch of chords, but if you asked me to program a synth, I would have no ****ing idea what I would be doing.
