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I don't bother with such trivials. Oh dear. You're welcome. Your friendly neighborhood orchestral reviewer! :thumbsup:

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Really good pop music is definitely harder to write.. and I'm talking about the genius stuff here, the kind of stuff Mozart only wished he could write. I really hate when people don't understand the perfection in certain pop music, I used to be somebody who thought exactly the same thing that pop music sucks and is extremely easy to write. In fact classical music is really easy to write, but pop music is much harder. It's so easy to be repetitive and boring in pop music, but classical music is innately more interesting in its complexity. Once you have the complexity down, being interesting is much less of an issue. With pop, since there's much more of a formula, by now every song has probably been written (although this obviously isn't the case). So naturally you have to break the formula and make it work in the same way romanticism did with classical and just as trashingly as it probably seemed at the time. People are going to realize in couple hundred years how good certain arists were in the 60's, and they already do. I find the romantic period dreadfully boring and monotonous the way I used to think of pop, but I quickly realized that I didn't take life all that seriously and that it takes a really stuck up person without a life to not appreciate contemporary music. It's so much harder to write a convincing pop song than to take some classes in counterpoint and write a decent fugue. Until you listen to and appreciate the gems in contemporary music, you'll never really understand classical music. Yesterday is pretty much just as good as Mozart's 40th symphony. The only difference is complexity in execution, but the inspiration is equally as rare and beautiful.