Compexity vs. Simplicity

YoungPunk · 2018-03-15T20:45:19-04:00

Today I had an epiphany. I thought, you know what, what is it that really differentiates rock artists ( examples Pink Floyd, Rush, Jimi Hendrix) vs. pop artists (examples Madonna, Kendrick Lamar and other modern stars, maybe even Fleetwood Mac kinda) and why are rock artists struggling to compete with pop artists nowadays. O.K. so then I had an epiphany. I thought, maybe the core difference between rock artists and pop artists is complexity vs. simplicity. Pink Floyd, Rush, and Jimi Hendrix are obviously all very complicated and heady if you listen to them, while when I looked at a 2015-2016 chart hits handbook, I found pages of major triads and hardly a flat or sharp in sight. This basically mean to me that the music is simple. Then I thought maybe simplicity is what people want. Jazz and Classical Music are famously complex (lots of flats and sharps on the page, for example) and you can't find that on the billboard charts anymore. Maybe rock artists like Jimi Hendrix are simply intermediaries between the complicated music of times past and what sells the most due to its simplicity, and that now that we have made the transition, rock will go the way of disco and we will be permanently stuck with super-selling simple music (I don't want this to happen, but maybe that's just the way it is.) No drugs were involved with this epiphany :) Any thoughts?

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Hmmmm... Maybe you're right. I'm listening to the Weeknd's Starboy and Wagners Ring (known to be complex) together and starting to notice some similarities. If only researchers paid attention to real music!

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