this isn't earth shattering news or anything, but i had a vocal melody line in my head today. I was in the middle of trying to figure out where it came from, when i realised that it had two sources!
so, if you hear
Lady Gaga's "just dance"
and
U2's "sunday bloody sunday"
you'll find the first line on the vocal melody is the same! so much for gaga bringing fresh ingenuity into pop. countless christian bands are lambasted (mainly by my dad) for being exact U2 sound-a-likes, which I guess must also grate on the countless christians who don't like U2, want christianity to be represented as being accessible to their own generation, and would like to see perhaps their own preferred genres represented to the glory of god (and well!)
but with this fresh discovery i think mainstream pop is in just as much danger of sinking into tedium. i guess its part of the definition of mainstream, the idea of needing to appeal to most people, that it Has to ignore the many obscure minorities.. but mainstream music has also changed a lot within the past decade or so. U2 have not though, so if we base things on these sounds then music as an ever adapting medium loses it's momentum.
(as it happens, i do like U2. as a lover of music foremost though, i'd say that other bands have used them as their influences to the point of exhaustion and mediocrity, and the scene needs to move.)
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