{"id":44085,"date":"2018-07-09T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44085"},"modified":"2018-09-18T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:41:42","slug":"we-used-to-joke-about-the-pre-fab-four-but-now-every-major-artist-is-pre-fab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/we-used-to-joke-about-the-pre-fab-four-but-now-every-major-artist-is-pre-fab\/","title":{"rendered":"We used to joke about the &#8220;Pre-Fab Four&#8221;, but now <em>every<\/em> major artist is pre-fab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only pre-fabricated, but with a global audience that has been trained to like their music in advance. You could go so far as to say they&#8217;ve been brainwashed into liking it. <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+EricRaymond\/posts\/St5cXQSx2S7\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESR<\/a> commented on this and shared the following video.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not just a get-off-my-lawn rant, very exact information on how modern production techniques and producers&#8217; economic incentives squeeze the life and variety out of popular music.<\/p>\n<p>I actually didn&#8217;t know how bad it had gotten out there, I never hear any of this chart-topping crap because I select my music from niche genres without lyrics &#8211; instrumental prog metal, jazz fusion, space ambient. I thought that was just me, but maybe such strict selectivity is what one has to do to avoid being inundated in garbage these days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oVME_l4IwII\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only pre-fabricated, but with a global audience that has been trained to like their music in advance. You could go so far as to say they&#8217;ve been brainwashed into liking it. ESR commented on this and shared the following video. Not just a get-off-my-lawn rant, very exact information on how modern production techniques and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,7,28,15],"tags":[1235,956,200],"class_list":["post-44085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-history","category-media","category-technology","tag-esr","tag-millennials","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bt3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44086,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44085\/revisions\/44086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}