I haven't read this whole topis but enough to see where it was going.
I'm going to chirp in and lean on the side of James with this.
My reasoning comes down to my own personal taste because of course it is, a matter of taste.
As a person of an artistic nature I find myself wanting authenticity when I listen to something.
That's why I would rather watch a concert of say, Led Zeppelin or The Who etc, and experience that band, that vocalist giving their souls. They might hit some bum notes, or whatever, but what you are hearing is them, live. No autotune. It is a genuine experience.
Now I know all bands will chop and cut and splice for an eternity to get the best product at the end of the day, but still it was all real.
These days you can hardly describe what you are hearing with some artists. You know that those vocals are not real. Or at least there might be an almost inaudible part of it that's real behind a pre-recorded vocal that is further forward in the mix.
Here's where I agree with you Boydie.
That song you metion by those x-factor boys, can't remember what they are called, is a good catchy song. Agreed. If it hadn't been so over-produced and clean, and sythesized, and computerised and precisely cut by a nuclear powered, laser guided, predictability drive.
Yep, I think that just about sums up the emotions I feel when that stuff forces it's way into my ears.
I know the beatles wrote chessy, poppy love songs, and I love them. Because they sound like real vocals by people who sound like they are actually playing real instruments. That's how it sounds when you hear them. You hear musical instruments being played and vocals that sound real and have soul. There's a human being attached to that voice and you can hear it.
I don't get any of that from a lot of these modern pop songs. There's some good songs that have been murdered with production and turned into something that becomes something that, to use an analogy, just pops out of a machine every 2 seconds in a factory. At least that's how it sounds, whether that's true or not.
There are lots of great writers out there pushing boudaries or re-inventing old ones. Unfortunately to really make it these you should preferably be sixteen, beautiful, have a great body and be willing to show lots of it, have charisma and performance skills. And maybe being able to sing.
What I usually end up hating the most is the videos. It seems the world we live in today has lost a lot of its morality, and I'm an athiest btw.
Anyway that's my two pence worth
