/mu/ - Music

>>95356

>>95356

>For the most part I'd say that music peaked as an art form, and became defined at it's best during the 17th century with composers.

Jesus Christ right off the bat and its clear you have no idea what you're talking about. 1800s orchestras are a product of Gilded-Age excess that completely butchered the original compositions of many classical artists of the 1700s whose work was mainly influenced by Chamber Music and were originally written with minimalism in mind. Then in the 1900s as popular music took hold the classical music scene became overcrowded with soyboy academics that hold the golden age of orchestra with far too high regard. The best orchestral songs are not from the 17th century, but from the turn of the 19th century from the likes of Gershwin and Gustav Holst, in other words gestural music, where the composers didn't have sticks up their fucking asses and weren't butchering minimalist composers. OPs the worst type of brainlet who automatically hears Beethoven and thinks it must be smart in of itself because that's the consensus instead of actually forming his own opinions.

Music in terms of sophistication, production value, and mainstream appeal, peaked in the mid to late 20th century, between 1950 and ending sometime in the 1990s. From the 1990s onwards musical production in the pop world has shifted away from composition and production and more towards the executive side of things. Its a side-effect of living in a post-Beatles, post-1980s music landscape. Mucisians have not gotten lazy, record companies just don't want to take risks anymore so they only do what works. And this wont stop until normalfags realize the industry is now stagnant. But pop music nowadays is largely targeted to teenagers anyways so that may never happen.

>>95356

>Dude this sounds good.

But that's a sound way of looking at things. Unfortunately, standards have fallen and most people seem to have low standards for actually what sounds good. That's how you get bix nood beatz or today's bland pop music.

>all that's left is listening to catchy music for the sake of it being catchy

The problem isn't catchiness; it's that it's a forced kind of catchiness. The approach to a pop song nowadays, for example, tends to rely on brute-force repetition rather than coming up with a memorable melody.

And maybe I'm just getting old, but most new underground music doesn't really do it for me anymore, either. A lot of what I hear strikes me as paint-by-numbers "genre music" with a cargo-cult conception of what's made certain styles enjoyable while actual songwriting goes out the window. But maybe everything's just going to sound tired when it's all been done before.

Lately I've just found myself sticking to my preferred eras of music and ignoring everything else.