Sep 14, 2024 12:07 AM
(This post was last modified: Sep 14, 2024 01:20 AM by C C.)
What Beato left out among the potential, contributing reasons (below) is how those television "singing competition" shows-- that especially sprung up like weeds in the 2000s -- shifted sole focus to vocal performers.
And with the singer eventually becoming the only "real" element of music tracks assembled or generated on "laptop studios", and with even their voices being digitally modified since the late '90s, and with most of them not writing their own lyrics as bands of the old days did... And with the kind of music that's in the top ten round-ups being utterly abysmal in this decade... One might as well listen wholly to AI music, where at least all the different music genres of the past can be visited under new re-formulations, and the lyrics have more substance than superficial driftwood, and are certainly vastly more varied in themes.
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VIDEO EXCERPTS: If you go to the top 50 chart right now in the US [...] it's literally all solo artists.
[...] Bands had massive hits that they wrote themselves, and that didn't really change until the late '90s and early 2000s. This is when you started to have boy bands that would have these co-writer producers or writer producers that would write their huge hits.
This really happened because the labels got involved. The industry was making less money because it was selling fewer records. They wanted to guarantee that they had hit songs in every record, so they would actually hire multiple songwriters to contribute to the record. These would be rock bands that would appear to be bands, but were a [...sham...]
[...] So what are some other factors that led to the demise of bands in the early 2000s? One of them is the changing tastes of people. Rock is just not popular, it doesn't connect with young people like it did from the 1960s and beyond. Probably because there are no bands out there now.
Another reason could be advancements in technology where a single artist can produce high quality, studio grade tracks on a laptop. Eliminating the need for a full band, and simplifying the production process.
It's hard to be in a band. Forming and maintaining a band is challenging due to interpersonal conflicts.
[...] It's cheaper and more efficient for labels to market one individual over a group, as solo artists are easier to brand, manage, and promote across media. A solo artist can record a song at their house on their laptop. They can put it up on TikTok and it can become a massive hit...
Why Are Bands Mysteriously Disappearing? ... https://youtu.be/h_DjmtR0Xls
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/h_DjmtR0Xls
And with the singer eventually becoming the only "real" element of music tracks assembled or generated on "laptop studios", and with even their voices being digitally modified since the late '90s, and with most of them not writing their own lyrics as bands of the old days did... And with the kind of music that's in the top ten round-ups being utterly abysmal in this decade... One might as well listen wholly to AI music, where at least all the different music genres of the past can be visited under new re-formulations, and the lyrics have more substance than superficial driftwood, and are certainly vastly more varied in themes.
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VIDEO EXCERPTS: If you go to the top 50 chart right now in the US [...] it's literally all solo artists.
[...] Bands had massive hits that they wrote themselves, and that didn't really change until the late '90s and early 2000s. This is when you started to have boy bands that would have these co-writer producers or writer producers that would write their huge hits.
This really happened because the labels got involved. The industry was making less money because it was selling fewer records. They wanted to guarantee that they had hit songs in every record, so they would actually hire multiple songwriters to contribute to the record. These would be rock bands that would appear to be bands, but were a [...sham...]
[...] So what are some other factors that led to the demise of bands in the early 2000s? One of them is the changing tastes of people. Rock is just not popular, it doesn't connect with young people like it did from the 1960s and beyond. Probably because there are no bands out there now.
Another reason could be advancements in technology where a single artist can produce high quality, studio grade tracks on a laptop. Eliminating the need for a full band, and simplifying the production process.
It's hard to be in a band. Forming and maintaining a band is challenging due to interpersonal conflicts.
[...] It's cheaper and more efficient for labels to market one individual over a group, as solo artists are easier to brand, manage, and promote across media. A solo artist can record a song at their house on their laptop. They can put it up on TikTok and it can become a massive hit...
Why Are Bands Mysteriously Disappearing? ... https://youtu.be/h_DjmtR0Xls