Why is this album so good?

It's incredibly mediocre pop rock.

>>73749618
6/10 tbqhwyfml

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>>73749626
is pop an insult? Pop is fucking great.

>>73749626
understandable, have a splendid fourth

>>73749647
Pop is not great, pop is almost exclusively dumbed down Western music.

>>73749618

>muh mediocre songwriting, ohh but it has some bloops it means it must be good
>muh alienation in a capitalist society meme XD
>even though marx talked about it 100 years before

kid a is better but its pretty good

>>73749659
you've never listened to good Pop, then.

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>>73749659
>dumbed down

Music doesn't have to be stupendously long or intricate to be challenging and artistically valuable.

>>73749618
It didn't sound like anything stellar to me.

>>73749667
How are songs like Paranoid Android and Let Down "mediocre songwriting"? I know this is bait but I'd like to hear your reasoning.

>>73749683
Name "good Pop" that isn't just dumbed down music from another genre or the past.
>>73749697
I didn't say it has to be complex, but it shouldn't be dumbed down for mass consumption.

>>73749725
Okay, but is simplification always 'dumbing down'? Music's effect isn't purely based on complexity.

>>73749805
Simplification isn't dumbing down.
Dumbing down can have really long melodies and pretty sophisticated songs like Style by Taylor Swift. It's still dumbed down synthpop.

>>73749819
So what factors indicate 'dumbing down', just the popularity?

>>73749641
But thats not Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

>>73749659
oh hi Paul Joseph Watson

>>73749857
No: the form, the melodic content, the harmonies, etc. It's pretty clear to anyone with basic music theory comprehension.
>>73750236
PJW is an idiot.

>>73749659
you fucking pleb

>>73750530
what music do you like

>>73750723
Pop music is pleb. You are pleb.
>>73750742
I'd say my favorite genres are Minimal House, Industrial Techno, and Classical Music.

>>73750914
sup poseur

>>73751091
how am I a poseur
do explain

>>73749647
Okay but he called it mediocre

>>73750914
Oh my god shut the fuck up

>>73749714
I can give you Paranoid Android but not Let Down for obvious reasons. Most of what sticks out in Let Down doesn't have to do with songwriting but just the general production of the track. If you would've said Airbag, I'd have less of an argument.

>>73751160
lol sorry I have better taste than you.

>>73751200
hahaha I am laughing you sure told him :'^D

Nah it's cringey shit for pseuds. Boring as fuck "art rock" for people that can't enjoy actually sophisticated stuff like true art music so they listen to its absurdly watered down form.

>>73751255
Notice how no one could refute me

>>73749659
Non-Western music sucks dick

>>73751309
Nobody's asking you to listen to non-western music. Just saying that the really good western stuff is where it's at, not goddamn laughably weak Radiohead.

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oops wrong image i meant to put this one

>>73751281
Don't worry I noticed. Pop music btfo, you've proven that your taste is the best for all time. clap clap clap

>>73750530
The irony is you're probably thinking 38 minute songs that drone one chord the whole time are harmonically complex.

You're vague statements about "melodic content" and "harmonies" show you don't know enough music theory to actually back up your argument.

>>73751402
No, they are simple but not dumbed down.

more like ti? How do i move past this being my favorite album? Please /mu/ help me not be a pleb.

it's not that it's "that good" it's just that it doesn't do anything overly wrong or offensive to someones taste, it pretty average but it's a prime candidate for best album ever because it's appeal is so broad.