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DOES MODERN TECHNOLOGY CREATE LOWER QUALITY SINGERS AND MUSICIANS?

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DOES MODERN TECHNOLOGY CREATE LOWER QUALITY SINGERS AND MUSICIANS?


[+] serious ballot by jappy
created Sun Jan 30, 05

Music these days is created by tracks, in fact, in most cases, there isn't even a drummer in the studio any longer, the drum is layed down totally by synthesizer. Then the lead guitarist will come in and put down his track, then bass guitar, finally lead singer will sing along with the music. In fact, you could individually make songs without having more than one member of a band in session at any given time. Along with that, computers and synthesizers are used to break down the music and perfect it. Crappy singers like Britney Spears or worse, Ashley Simpson, can use synthesizers to cover up just how awful their voices actually are.

With that in mind, does all this technology water down the music industry to the point where there are just not nearly as many quality musicians and singers as there were years ago?

Yes, singers/bands now are average at best
No, bands/singers now are just as good
No, singers/bands now are way better


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COMMENTS:
?!? Hmmm ... a decent jappy ballot. This requires reinforcement.

I think you make a good point; much of today's music does seem formulaic and one has to wonder if the easy access to synthesizer-generated tracks doesn't have a lot to do with it.
by Cathexis on Mon Jan 31, 05 7:05am [+]

Most rock and pop has been recorded in that way since the late sixties. And actually most recordings use real drummers, certainly more so than in the 80s and early 90s.

The trouble is that most acts signed are bland and unthreatening, most arrangements are bland and unthreatening. The same couple of dozen session musicians with note- and millisecond- perfect, bland, unchallenging instrumental ability play on half the records that make the charts. And, yes, the whole thing, especially the vocals are digitally processed to give them that bland, expensive-sounding sheen (no pun intended) that makes them all sound much the same.
by keithsheen on Mon Jan 31, 05 10:24am [+]

And most of the radio stations are owned by the same companies and play the same bland unthreatening records. As one senior radio executive stated (I can't remember who) 'we're not in the business of selling records, we're in the business of selling advertising'. So bland and unthreatening (did I use those words already?) is the order of the day. Nothing too challenging or exciting, for fear it might make you switch off.
by keithsheen on Mon Jan 31, 05 10:29am [+]

It's been coming for years now. Even back in the American Bandstand Era (am I carbon-dating myself or WHAT?), singers felt the need to amp up their recordings throught judicious engineering. We're just starting to notice it now (Ashlee Simpson, Milli Vanilli (BTB, you CAN blame it on the rain)).
by Truthseeker013 on Mon Jan 31, 05 5:48pm [+]

Excellent Ballot, Jappy!
by Ezri on Mon Jan 31, 05 11:51pm [+]






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