You're not crazy: Pop music IS getting simpler.

People love to say that pop music is getting worse or overly commercialized, but a recent study from the Queen Mary University of London has confirmed something else: pop music melodies have gotten simpler.

From 1950 to 2022, they found a clear decrease in qualities related to melodic complexity. So there you go, right? Pop music sucks now! Science said so!

Except, what if that's not what the study is saying? By talking with Madeline Hamilton, the researcher behind the study, it's clear that other factors in pop music have become more important than melodic complexity...

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Read the study for yourself: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

The NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/sc...

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 intro
00:29 let's talk with an expert
00:43 how this study came to be
01:32 what the study found
02:43 pop music is bad now
02:56 except it's not
03:36 why do we care about melody so much?
04:16 what about rhythm?
04:58 this isn't about rap
05:43 why is this happening?
06:12 the most fascinating possibility
08:37 pop music is always changing!

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