Music Oversaturation
Even though music is an essential part of our lives, and especially for students and teenagers like me, I feel like in recent times music has become oversaturated with low-quality songs, remixes, and plagiarisms, and that music, in general, has been losing its charm.
Every song you hear nowadays either online or on the radio just feels like the same beat and same template all over again. I don't know whether this phenomenon has only appeared in recent times or if other people even notice.
As an avid listener of 80's ex-yu rock, I can tell the difference in quality between today's mostly digitally produced music with the same melodies.
It's like there's a lack of creativity in the music space nowadays. Producers go with what works and what gains the most listens and tops billboards. No one experiments anymore and most top billboard songs are the same shit over and over again.
I'm not saying all songs and artists are victims of this, but most music produced between 2015 and now has made me feel this way.
But what I've also noticed is that we, as a society, got addicted to these types of songs and that our brains prefer short and recognizable tunes over something new. I've personally experienced playing the first 15 seconds of a song and then realizing it's meh and skipping to the next one. Not one time though, multiple times. This says something about not only me and my music preference but also the quality of music over the years and our attention spans.
One more thing about music is that everyone listens to it. Now especially more than ever people are walking around and even talking with their headphones on, which is not only something you shouldn't do because of etiquette but it also ruins your focus. And while I couldn't live without music, I feel like some people are taking this too literally and ALWAYS having headphones on and something playing. I'm not sure whether this is caused by people just not paying attention or did the world change that much?
Even though I wasn't born when MP3 players and Walkmans were in trend, I feel like they required more effort and nitpicking to play a certain song. Especially when recording stuff from the radio onto empty cassettes. You always had to wait for the song and the whole house had to be silent when the song you wanted to record was playing. Nowadays, you can search for any song online and play it in a matter of seconds, while before you had to wait days for it to play on the radio again, or if it is vinyl, you had to wait for it to get released and be the first one in line at the record shop.
But to conclude, I think back in the days of Walkmans and vinyl it was harder to get the music, and that it was something way more cherished even though radio existed. You couldn't just pick songs you wanted to listen to, you needed to wait for them to play and listen to other, worse songs, in the meantime. I think this is what we lost with digitalizing music. You can play whatever, whenever. And of course, it gets boring after a while.
Nevertheless, music is an important part of most of our lives, that's why you should cherish it and listen to what you love.
Until next time! 🖋️
Day 44 of #100DaysToOffload
