Although this comes at a huge cost. The moving focus from the vital music elements of rhythm, arrangement, melody and harmony towards music sounding as good as it can has become all too apparent. This is particularly true in the commercial pop market. The emergence of dance producers involvement in pop productions since the 1990s has created a stagnant and repetitive dirge of popular music, focused on beats, heavy synthesizer stabs and autotuned vocals. It provides little inspiration and, crucially, longevity.
Compare this to popular music from the 1960s to the 1990s. Many great bands that have come through in those years with limited production resources, yet the quality of the musical elements have made their records stand the test of time. You cannot make that parallel with modern music, because so many people can produce great music, and the over-saturation and similarity of the production techniques of modern music do no favour an artist who wants to stand out from the crowd. There are always imitators in music, but now it seems more prevalent than ever.
Modern music production techniques are fantastic, but in order for them to be fully utilized they have to be used effectively with the core musical composition elements, so music can become memorable again.
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