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Increasing Similarity of Billboard Songs
It's not just you, others have also noticed that popular songs on the Billboard charts sound similar. But what you may not realize is that in the recent days, they're sounding even more similar. Andrew Thompson and Matt Daniels for The Pudding make the case: From 2010-2014, the top ten producers (by number of hits) wrote about 40% of songs that achieved #1 - #5 ranking on the Billboard Hot 100. In the late-80s, the top ten producers were credited with half as many hits, about 19%. In other words, more songs have been produced by fewer and fewer topline songwriters, who oversee the combinations of all the separately created sounds. Take a less personal production process and execute that process by a shrinking number of people and everything starts to sound more or less the same.
Free Tommy Robinson!
UK government is suppressing large-scale UK Muslim pedophile child abductions, child-sex trafficking, and rape gangs. Reporting on the rape gangs and child-trafficking and even upon Tommy Robinson's arrest for reporting on them as been banned by the UK government.
This could well be the beginning of violent revolution in the UK.