They sound like good explanations to me, although you would think that when it's easier produce & record music, you'd have lower barriers to entry and thus more variety. Of course if the big music companies are still acting as gatekeepers for the radio stations you wouldn't hear much innovative stuff from new entrants in any event.
I was a music major in the late 80s and one surprise, looking back, is how the synthesizer was never used to its full potential. I thought, at the time, that it would simulate instruments that never existed, so music could be written for them. Instead it was treated as just another keyboard and was out of fashion by the end of the decade. It was one avenue of innovation that, as far as I could tell, was never fully exploited.
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Date: 2012-07-29 04:17 pm (UTC)I was a music major in the late 80s and one surprise, looking back, is how the synthesizer was never used to its full potential. I thought, at the time, that it would simulate instruments that never existed, so music could be written for them. Instead it was treated as just another keyboard and was out of fashion by the end of the decade. It was one avenue of innovation that, as far as I could tell, was never fully exploited.