Gizmodo reports:
iPods really have killed music. People aren't just ignorant of high quality audio, they actually hate it. Gee, thanks for contributing to the downfall of civilization, Apple.
So.. According to Gizmodo, the main point in the music is the almost-but-not-really-hearable sounds in the music that are lost in compression. Right.
I, for one, have thought the main part in the music is melody, lyrics and sounds you can easily hear. So people preferring hearing the essentials of the music over the multi-layered web of expensive background choruses sounds very refreshing for me. Back to basics! It’s the riffs and hooks that make music good or bad, not the expensive producing.
This way or that way, people liking music without some of the finer nyances is something completely else than “killing the music”.
The whole article is here:
Music Is Dead: iPods and Young People Have Utterly Destroyed Music.