The Thing About Popularity

This blog post by Colin Hill is one of the reasons I do not like mainstream music. He talks about how his dislike for "popular music" is not because it is popular but because it is boring. He finds a similar trend with mainstream music: that lyricism is not as valued in songwriting. A lot of music we hear on the radio today is on the radio because of it's ability to be "catchy" and sold to a targeted audience. I am not discrediting the music but it is not new. Some songs I find have the loss of authenticity as some artists do not write their own songs. My dislike for mainstream music is rooted in the fact that the music itself is lost in the production, commercialization, and selling of it. Music gets lost in the wave of other music. It all ends up sounding the same to me. I do not know what I am listening to anymore. Colin ends his blog saying, "I don’t have a problem with popular music, I have a problem with boring music," and I agree with that statement.