Before you read this blog please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVME_l4IwII&t=629s

Everytime I hear someone talk about why pop music is good or bad I get internally angry, even when they have the same opinion as me. I think it’s because I just can’t talk about it. And I get especially angry when explaining to someone who likes pop music that pop music is bad, because most of time they think I am wrong (and I don’t like being called wrong when I’m right). They think their music is the best because the most people like it but in fact that is just the sign that they are being controlled by larger entities.

As told in the video, during the past decennia music has become more of a product then an art form. Big companies are trying everything they can to get a big audience even when it means fucking up the music. They use methods that I completely disagree with like the loudness war, repetition, musical techniques, … The people don’t get to think for themselves anymore. By taking the dynamics and character out of a song and making it louder it will be perceived as better by the majority. By repeating the same songs over and over again in our daily lives they try (and succeed on most people) to make us like certain songs. It feels like we are being controlled by them.

Of course, there are still artists that don’t produce product and still produce musical art. Those are the ones keeping me on track and doing what I love, getting the good music to the people. And there are the Max Martin’s and Lukasz Gottwald’s who are the cancer of music, they are the factory that dumps tons of shit on the art of music. I must admit in every aspect I’ve talked about there are nuances. Compression can still be used as an effect or in a good way (by not overdoing it). In fact, let me tell you about what a good friend and Funk/Disco DJ once told me. He compresses his files of funk songs when he plays them as a DJ, because they have to pump for the dancefloor.

Conclusion: I get angry when talking about these things because we are not slaves controlled by big companies. We are the people with our own identity which we choose ourselves!