Response to "Why is Modern Music so Awful' by Thoughty2 - The Decline of the Pop Song - Summary

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The user wants a concise summary of a video transcript that criticizes another video that claims modern music is getting worse based on a scientific study. The transcript argues that the study is flawed, biased and incomplete, and that it ignores the context, structure and diversity of music. The transcript also mocks the other video's lack of musical knowledge, logical reasoning and factual accuracy. The transcript ends with a sarcastic parody of the other video's style.

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1. The text is a critique of a video by 42, a YouTube channel, that claims that modern music is awful based on a scientific study.
2. The video relies on a study titled "Measuring the evolution of contemporary Western popular music" by five authors from different fields of science and technology.
3. The study used the Million Song Dataset, a collection of songs from the top 200 most searched for artists on Spotify and their related music, to measure three metrics: harmonic complexity, timbral diversity and loudness.
4. The study found that over the past 50 years, loudness increased while harmonic complexity and timbral diversity decreased, implying that music quality has declined.
5. The text argues that the study is flawed and misleading for several reasons, such as ignoring the structure and context of music, using a biased and limited sample of commercial pop music, not accounting for plagiarism or hidden chords, and disregarding the historical trends of complexity and simplicity in art.
6. The text also points out the errors and inconsistencies in 42's video, such as mispronouncing timbre, confusing the history of mp3 players and streaming services, exaggerating the influence of two pop songwriters, and conflating musical genres and styles.