I consider myself generally open minded, mostly accommodating to new ideas, I may not agree with everything anyone says, but I can mostly appreciate their point. My taste in music does not follow the mainstream, sure, but I can tolerate most crap that comes on the radio. I can enjoy Creed and Nickleback despite the fashionable notion that they are utterly worthless and uncool...they do have good songs.
But I can't stand remix. Now it may be that I am getting old and doesn't get what's hip about these techno headbanging beat. No, headbanging is cool, just listen to any Nirvana songs. What I am talking about is the monotonic repetition of a melody no longer than 2 bars long that is played over and over and over and over. What's worse is that the melody is usually ripped straight off some original songs. Most of these remix songs can pass off as an artistic creation because of a descent backbone melody, which goes to show that the original is fine, there's no need for 'remixing'.
What really bugs me is the simplicity. Listen to any remix and it's not hard to pick out that they are made of very few, simple note constructions are are pretty much, primitive. More scales rather than music. It would not take any effort to write it. All you need is find a backbone melody, turn on your metronome and set the beat, add a twist every 16 bars, then back to the metronome.
Why would people want to listen to it? It has no complexity, not inspiring, it doesn't wow you with technical difficulties nor offer your emotions and imaginations for a ride. It doesn't require any thought processing. Perhaps that's it, it doesn't require any brain nor heart to listen it. No efforts required. Such a degrading genre.
Oh man, I sound like an oldman.
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