Musical Key Changes Have Gone Extinct- Shocking Analysis of Billboard Hot 100 Hits

What happened to them? Experts debate.

From Culture Critic:

Very cool, but here’s what Culture Critic got wrong:

The guy tweeting says that lack of key changes is loss of complexity in music. This is not true, it’s correlated to drop in popularity in rock music among #1’s where there was commonly a key change in the bridge.

From a pure waveform standpoint music has gotten more complex imho.

That’s according to my homie who’s something of a music historian.

👉 Here’s another good comment — this one from tomm648_ on Instagram:

To use a lack of key changes as ‘evidence’ that complexity has gone out of pop music is the absolute definition of cherry picked evidence. Musical complexity can come from endless other factors, in fact key changes are one of the most prosaic examples

Highly recommend checking out the full thread by Culture Critic — so much good stuff in there.

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