The hugely popular video sharing site in general has become a hub for imaginative and creative musical content in recent years. Despite featuring very limited original material, the track was among the bands most successful, not least due to the music video being a massive hit on YouTube. The song was a medley of popular songs which all utilised the same 4 chord progression and jovially highlighted the fact so much of pop music is effectively just a musical rehash. Everyone is just recycling the same chords and song structures in order to produce ‘new’ music and whilst in many ways this could be considered a bad thing for the industry, some artists have been using it to produce imaginative and quality content.įor example, The Axis of Awesome, an Australian comedy rock band, featured a track called ‘4 Chords’ on their 2011 album, Animal Vehicle. A report from Scientific American which claimed that the pitch content of music has decreased in recent years, stated that “Musicians today seem to be less adventurous in moving from one chord to another, instead following the paths well-trod by their predecessors and contemporaries”. Obviously there are some exceptions, but it is undeniable that most of the pop music that is out there at the moment is lacking somewhat in originality. For many, it’s repetitive, unimaginative and quite frankly boring. Modern pop music, despite being supposedly ‘popular’ by definition, really isn’t for everyone.
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