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The contemporary pop industry is what New Yorker journalist John Seabrook explores and exposes in full in The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory, shedding light on the lives of Top 40 radio’s biggest stars, most influential producers and most powerful executives. There’s several cogs to this beast, all working (no pun intended) in concert to unendingly churn out product that will satiate the masses and ideally earn the creators, the performer and the label alike a handsome sum. Ultimately, it’s better to go with what’s for sure, and that’s where the how comes in: Despite how simple it may seem to the pedestrian listener, there’s far more of a science to making today’s cookie-cutter throwaway hits than anyone could imagine. The why of the question could be explained from a multitude of angles, ranging from the reasonable hypothesis that popular music has homogenized and got “ dumber” overall to accommodate a population living in an increasingly complex and distressing world, to an intellectual critique viewing the music as a reflection of declining standards of art and civilization to even a conspiratorial angle that an elite cadre is attempting to make the masses stupid. One of the main questions is: How did all this music get to sound the same? More so, Why did it get to sound the same, and why does it take so many people to create these songs? Isn’t this all done on computers? How hard could it be? Still, there’s questions that remain when looking at the state of music right now, particularly with the songs that occupy the Billboard Hot 100.
We now know full well how the internet changed the industry and who the main actors were in its transformation. We now know how the music industry used to be and what went on behind the scenes. Parts one and two can be read here and here.
Take it for what it’s worth and hopefully you get something out of this.
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This is part three of a three-part series of reviews, or at least summaries of books that document the history of the music industry from the 1950s up to the present day intended, as the books are to be educational, informative and laced with my personal take.