As much as I like rap music, I didn't like the fact the popular pop or grunge rock songs no longer had any instrumental break or guitar solos when in the 90's, average grunge rock had a few guitar solos and in the 80's average pop songs had some good guitar solos. That was extremely noticeable that someone was pulling the string behind the scene which thing gets popular. At the time I noticed it, I took a break listening to rap music and started searching for death metal music.
Obviously other than skill & the inclusion of guitar instrumentals, I wonder if the instrumental guitar solo died because of radio play.
Presumably there was a push to have radio edits of popular songs be shorter to run more ads, have more inane DJ bumpers & morning zoo bs, squeeze in more of the Top 40 repeats to fulfill contractual obligations for exposure, etc.
The lyricless instrumental solos are surely one of the first victims when trying to truncate radio edits for the most popular songs when everything in corporate radio gets min/maxed.
Academic Agent did a one-hour review on how rap was astroturfed to replace rock last year
IIRC, like Every Single Time, it came down to a couple of recording industry Jews that owned all the rap labels.
As much as I like rap music, I didn't like the fact the popular pop or grunge rock songs no longer had any instrumental break or guitar solos when in the 90's, average grunge rock had a few guitar solos and in the 80's average pop songs had some good guitar solos. That was extremely noticeable that someone was pulling the string behind the scene which thing gets popular. At the time I noticed it, I took a break listening to rap music and started searching for death metal music.
Obviously other than skill & the inclusion of guitar instrumentals, I wonder if the instrumental guitar solo died because of radio play.
Presumably there was a push to have radio edits of popular songs be shorter to run more ads, have more inane DJ bumpers & morning zoo bs, squeeze in more of the Top 40 repeats to fulfill contractual obligations for exposure, etc.
The lyricless instrumental solos are surely one of the first victims when trying to truncate radio edits for the most popular songs when everything in corporate radio gets min/maxed.