How ‘Hyperselection’ Is Making Modern Life Efficient, Pleasant – and Boring

How ‘hyperselection’ is making modern life efficient, pleasant – and boring

Pixabay/PexelsIt’s difficult to imagine a song like Queen’s 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody topping the charts today. Almost six minutes long, it moves through several radically different musical sections and famously ignores the conventional structure of a pop song. It seems almost designed to break the rules of what a hit single should be. Fifty years later, popular music seems to have moved in the opposite direction. Once artists and producers figure …

CHOCHILINO How ‘hyperselection’ is making modern life efficient, pleasant – and boring %

It’s difficult to imagine a song like Queen’s 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody topping the charts today. Almost six minutes long, it moves through several radically different musical sections and famously ignores the conventional structure of a pop song. It seems almost designed to break the rules of what a hit single should be. Fifty years later, …