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by jomamaxx 3587 days ago
No - the songs a very close.

Similar beats, genre, production values, upbeat, bubblegum themes, and then you have the 3-5 whooping by a 'chorus of teens' or whatever.

It's very, very similar. It's a thing. And it's sad.

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Yes, it's a thing. But similarity is no reason for sadness. One could make a similar argument about design patterns.

The important question to ask is, "what ways are there of making music sound appealing to as many people as possible on the first listening?"

Convergent solutions will arise, just as in the case of design patterns.

It's not the similarity that bothers me, it's the general craziness of it all.
I've never listened to any one of those songs in the article's videos. I don't know who most of those authors even are. I'm fine with that.