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Originally Posted by symbeline
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.
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But you're using specific examples to bolster your point. The music industry almost ALWAYS has waited until something big struck to sign 30 artists that sound the same and pump the out. The grunge movement, the boy band movement, the nu-metal movement. A lot of the times they were interchangeable on the top 40, that hasn't changed.