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Talk About Stating the Obvious.....

I heard someone on the radio the other day view modern music with a different perspective.....

He claimed modern music is what it is because it's most-effective with grabbing consumers listening to lesser fidelity.... And the "loud", compressed sound is effective, as is the provocative nature and lack of musical complexity.....

And he concluded stating on low-fi, Mozart and Louis Armstrong sound boring, but Linkin Park and Madonna do not.

The question becomes which came first- Poor fidelity leading to shallow music, or shallow music leading to poor fidelity? (I think it was mutual.) But I also think the real problem is both the audio and music industries have sold the consumers short. For had both music and audio kept a higher standard, consumers would have been drawn to that even more than the sheer portability of entertainment, in my humble opinion.


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