Oh man, nailed it.
What's happening here?
Musician Patrick Metzger noticed this trend and called it the "Millenial Whoop".
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Music, especially pop music, is based on patterns. It makes new songs seem familiar, because you've basically heard them before.
-Edvard
Yes, I gather that it's called "formulaic music". "Musicians" have been using that approach for years, thus explaining the depressing seemingly moronically repetitive nature of a lot of the music - and there's apparently been a lot of not-so-subtle sampling/copying going on at the same time, creating copyright disputes. Every now and then though, it seems that someone with a streak of creativity or an unusual catch in their voice develops a catchy new pattern/formula, and then lots of copycats move in to ride on its coattails.
I guess that's simply what one would expect to get though, with an industry that seems to have adopted a mass-production approach.
