At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I want to make big-sounding pop records.
Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.
I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.
In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know?
Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.
Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.
Pop music has progressed.
But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.
Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.