"Out of touch and not afraid to admit it"

I couldn't quite ID why most modern pop music was exhausting for me to listen to until I watched hours and hours of "pop music producer shows you their Logic Pro workflow" videos. What kills me is that most songs now have at least 90+ tracks - each track tweaked and/or worked over.

xp

<3 *puts 2 tacos into the mailbox*

xp ghost club i think on my better days i agree with you, that it can be really good. i just think, imagine if there were a new song with a tambourine solo. and then suddenly, every single song had a tambourine solo. and this went on for like 20 years

no, but what you don't understand is that THIS tambourine solo takes place over some really innovative discordant stuff

("why why why why why" by sault is a fine example).

wow! have listened to this dozens of times and it using auto-tune never crossed my mind.

i'm out of touch with auto-tune use and not afraid to admit it.

Like a lot of people I thought autotune was a fad that would wane, and so subsequently I've wondered if it would be analogous to something like heavy electric guitar distortion for people in the sixties, which also never went away (though rock has become marginal).

Funnily enough I was listening to Caetano Veloso's white album this morning and thinking "this is really good, but the guitar is like someone scrawling all over a beautiful landscape painting," which I assume must have been an intended effect.

wow, the guitar parts are one of the best parts in the '69 album. Lanny Gordin ftw