If you’re of the mind that us young whippersnappers’ music all sounds the same, it turns out the science backs you up. The younger generation may have some great new ways to listen to music, but it seems kind of pointless if it all sounds the same.
There exists an archive called the Million Song Dataset, which proves art can be looked at somewhat objectively. It breaks lyrical and audio content into data, and it covers pop songs from 1955 to 2010.
Researchers in Spain ran all this data through a few algorithms and found that pop songs, over time, have become generally louder and less complex (in chord progressions, melodies and the types of sounds).
via DVICE
July 28, 2012
