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Originally Posted by Walleris
I think you're judging style over substance. I imagine in the 80s there were people who couldn't tell apart Bon Jovi from Poison, Motley Crue, Warrant or Winger, etc.
I'm not calling Sheeran an all time great (not yet), but he's a great talent and a quality songwriter, as evident by a long list of hits he wrote for other artists, not just himself. It's OK if his music isn't your cup of tea, but comparing him to Shawn Mendes is just offensive!
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Did I just hurt your Ed Sheeran fanboy feelings?
I'm just taking the piss really. I don't have a strong opinion about him. There are some songs I totally dig (I absolutely love his collaboration with Eminem) and others that are nails on chalkboard to me. He does seem to be talented as a songwriter and performer but the fact that he's up Taylor's Swift ass makes him lose all the points with me. Not really, I just find his voice a lil bit annoying.
My complain about artists nowadays sounding too similar is still valid though. It's not the style as you said, I guess the production is too sterile and homogeneous to make the listening experience easy on the ears? That's my theory anyway, take any charts list and it's pretty linear within the diferent musical genres. Same with the radio, any top40 station will play safe music and by safe I don't mean lyrically but nothing too outrageous.
Of course there are a few unique artists but you know how this is. The imitators will pop everywhere until a new big artist/music cycle comes.
I've always listened to top40 radio and I could tell artists apart. And there was always only a couple popular genres really, so it should have been as linear as it is nowadays. But Michael Jackson didn't sound like Prince. Or Mariah Carey like Whitney Houston. And Mötley Crue didn't sound like Cinderella.