Originally Posted by
pauln
Since then music has seemed to sound like chord progressions were composed first in a more generic way so that they fairly stood on their own, if even a bit more pedestrian, and the melody lines were added after to fit the already existing chords. This sound is, in my opinion, becoming increasingly pretty lame, but characteristic of the modern approach in which progressions of three or four chords are used to make zillions of songs that, to a musical ear, are sadly recognized as just more awful variations of the same machine-like songs. The lines, especially modern vocal lines, sound like someone oblivious of melodies was assigned to write them using a CST program, and vocalists convinced to sing them... they sound quirky, goofy, not melodic.
To me, smooth jazz for example does not sound melodic; it reveals strongly the algorithm of simple chord progression first, then the wanky attempt at applying a selection from a store of safe bolt-on melodies after. It has the sound of good studio musicians suffering poorly contrived machine music with the obligatory style control switch set to "Sounds like jazz!".
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