Popular music used to be a river or a stream or even a tiny brook tinkling out some fragile notes; now it’s a waterfall, a thundering sound, actually a force, carrying us along; it reflects the time; but it has always been so. What we’re seeing now is the current immediacy, the urgency, the shortage of time, and all of that results in beat, no buildup to anything, get right to the point quickly, you have only three minutes.
