How a music industry job damaged her love of music
“I used to work in the music industry for, like, ten years,” says TikToker @atlantacobb near the start of her video with over 1 million views, “so now I can’t listen to music properly.”
Her problem is that many new songs are very similar to previous hits. The first of several examples is how Lizzo’s new song “2 Be Loved” sounds a lot like Lady Gaga’s “Perfect Illusion” from 2016.
“All I can hear is Lady Gaga,” she says of Lizzo’s new song. “This happens all the time in my head. It’s so annoying.”
There is a part 2 and 3 with more songs.
Add to add a little credibility and backstory….
Bruce Houghton is Founder and Editor of Hypebot and MusicThinkTank and serves as a Senior Advisor to Bandsintown which acquired both publications in 2019. He is the Founder and President of the Skyline Artists Agency and a professor for the Berklee College Of Music.
About 40 years ago, Jerry Ade, the agent who ran Norby Walters, the major R&B and Hip-Hop booking agency at the time, sent me to Colony Records in Times Square to buy the Top 10 singles at the time. He asked me what was significant about the Top 10 singles? I said I didn’t know. Jerry said, when you listen to each of them they will sound similar in some fashion to another hit that came before that single. In this regard, the music business and the music in it hasn’t changed all that much. Everything sounds like something else. However, it’s all about the music. If it makes you happy when you listen to a song, then life is good.
Norby was all mobbed up!