musicology and data analysis
Is popular music getting worse?: Declinists
The spectrograms don’t lie Nine chord changes. Fourteen timbres. 18 dB of dynamic range. "Superstition," 1972. Morgan Wallen, "Last Night," 2023. Number one, sixteen weeks. Three chords. 6 dB. The vocal compressed to a 3 dB window. Oh come on. This is not taste....