It seems the trend has been to increasingly rely on electronic instruments and heavy handed effects. I enjoy listening to pre-autotune vocals when imperfections and humanity weren't squashed.
pop music relies on both novelty and familiarity. so we hear the same melodies and chord progressions for several decades re-skinned with new textures, louder, new words, differently sequenced. There's nothing wrong with electronic sounds if they're used in a fresh way. It is harder to use a guitar in a fresh way than a synthesizer.
The Beatles were praised for their use of electronics, but even they ripped it off from Music Concrete artists from decades earlier. Innovation doesn't happen under the spotlight.
@E_Schaaf - I have nothing against electronic music either, but noticing analog instruments have a much lower presence currently.
I was thinking about instruments and wondering with the thousands of sounds you get through synthesizers whether anyone would bother learning anything besides a keyboard.
taking things a step further - why make any new sounds at all when you can craft anything you can think of using samples of existing content if you listen to enough stuff and build up a library of favorites? That's the J Dilla mentality, which has been completely formative for a wide scope of genres. There's nothing new under the sun. The sequencing and curatorial selection is where the artistry lies
Not trying to be contrarian, just thinking about directions in pop music and hip hop which has pretty much informed pop aesthetic for the last 10 years at least
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