The Loudness War. A war I’ve been completely in the dark about! Not going to lie, I laughed to see Miranda Lambert and Christina Aguilera mixed with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. But it’s really interesting to see. I mean, I can understand that with hard rock you wouldn’t mind some distortion and loudness, I feel like that a part of the genre. But, for pop and country, why is that needed?

I remember when I bought my first pair of really expensive headphones. Wow, does that give you a better look into the production of music. I remember listening to so many songs and going, “Echo?! Why is there so much echoing in these songs?” It’s the weirdest phenomenon to me, even more so than the loudness war. I get how it can add some nice change and tone to the song, but it’s used so heavily. If you really want to hear it being used, look into Jay-Z’s The Black Album acappella soundtracks.

Also, an issue I can with music is how overproduced it all sounds. I mean, when you go to a concert, it honestly doesn’t sound that great because of all of the changes they make during the production of the song. When you listen to the recording on a CD, or whatever your format choice is, you can hear the changes they’ve made, but also not in a good way. It sounds fake. Don’t get me wrong, I still listen to popular music, but I do get frustrated with it sometimes.