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Originally posted by swissman
I like generic music too if it is actually good or if it's not played out. I just don't like songs that are overly obvious in the commerciality of them. I don't like feeling that what I'm hearing is engineered for me to buy it based on the analysis of the past few years' pop charts.
It's not self-righteous, I just think that Pitbull and Ke$ha both have been making the same type of song with the same formula for about four years now. It's time for a change. If not from another artist, from them themselves. I realize not every pop song has to have insane vocals, intelligent lyrics, interesting instrumental and new concepts but couldn't it at least get near to having any of those things? That's all. To expect two "artists" to present songs with artistic merit is not pretentious. Criticizing a song for being very obvious isn't pretentious. They're not immune from critique. I find it much more pretentious to build songs like this up and then tell other people they're self-righteous for not liking it. And I realize not every song has to be a masterpiece. It is pop music after all. But does that mean that we no longer need to try?
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I like your points.
I think pop music is about making yourself likable to the masses. That's how songs smash, they have the cool factor all over their melodies, their lyrics, their production.
All pop acts try to be likable one way or another. It's just that some, the actually acclaimed ones, try this by being original and by reinventing their selves. Others see what's smashing and try to copy and recycle that. These are the generic ones. The music market is so full of those. You turn up the radio and all you hear is the same production over and over. The same Dr. Luke/Stargate/RedOne/Guetta inspired crap.