Here's a fascinating piece that explains how and why ubiquitous, inescapable, commercial pop music is not very good for us.
Here are a few of its salient points.
-- Pop music has been dumbed down over the decades. Compared to the good songs of the sixties, today we're getting watered-down tat with scant musical content, using only a few basic chords.
-- These limitations can make us less creative, leading us to expect less of ourselves and others and our art, and this encourages us not to think outside the box.
-- Poor-quality pop is being used 'to brainwash listeners through predatory marketing strategies across all media channels'.
-- And note, this also shapes the way kids grow up.
-- It says, too, that songs are not played everywhere, constantly, because they are popular. They are played to make them popular.
Regular readers of JDCMB will already be familiar with my theory that when people have the opportunity to hear classical music, they mostly love it. It's just that it is not played very much, very widely, in places where it can be frequently and regularly stumbled across.
Read the whole thing here:
http://mic.com/articles/98310/scientists-prove-that-pop-music-is-literally-ruining-our-brains
