Recent comments in /f/Music

connivingbitch t1_jcwamh1 wrote

Yeah, his work is super-popular because a lot of people like it! I don’t, but I also don’t bitch online when a song I don’t like plays at the drugstore.

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TheHeavyMetalCouncil OP t1_jcwaeuv wrote

They're songs that are on the radio everywhere you go, where you shop, at work, on tv, in films.. it's a total disgrace and you may have the gift of being blissfully unaffected by this ill but it's totally nauseating to me and it's lowered my quality of life. it's lowered the IQ of people I have to interact with in my daily life. This is a global societal ill and it's making music in general lower in standards. Familiarity and repetitiveness stagnates music culture and its normal evolution. Say goodbye to masterpieces in the near future. it'll all be factory slop for zombified lemming minds.. You're already halfway there

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TheHeavyMetalCouncil OP t1_jcw9vha wrote

They're ubiquitous, they're at the grocery store, at the dentist, on tv shows, on advertising. His songs have permeated the minds of people I interact with. It's a nightmare

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Far-Space2949 t1_jcw9l88 wrote

Nashville is having a resurgence of a whole new stripe, no longer a country town, everyone is there from country to metal from billy gibbons to joe bonamassa to Vince Neil to Vince gill and thats not even counting east Nashville and Franklin.. etc.

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sea_foam_blues t1_jcw0zme wrote

Stillwater Oklahoma has been the starting point for a lot of great Red Dirt and Americana bands. Muscle Shoals Alabama too, in a slightly different sort of way.

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Hoopi_goldberger t1_jcvzaan wrote

Austin is having a cool surge in genuinely good, unique country that is separating itself from pop country and the formulaic garbage that’s been coming out of Nashville the last decade or so

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-PepeArown- t1_jcvx8gh wrote

More fear mongering and popphobia on this subreddit? Did we really need more of that?

Besides, all of these “modern music bad” people don’t seem to realize that Max is actually a bit more versatile than they give him credit for. And, no, he has not written ALL of the top hits of the last few decades. Just a good handful of them.

Not only that, but he’s been slowing down a bit in recent years. He’s recently worked with Coldplay and The Weeknd, but not really much else since 2022. This may shock you, but there are other producers in the mainstream.

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MDS1138 t1_jcvvr1t wrote

I don't care for his work but he's very good at what he does. If it puts your mind at ease, pretty soon AI will be a thing and they won't even use humans to craft successful pop music formulas. Then you can just hate programmers.

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