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From Soul to Synthetic: How Music Lost It's Soul (and Why They Wanted It That Way) - James Perloff

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Did pop music hit its high note in 1970 and start sliding downhill after? In this episode, we unpack James Perloff’s deep dive into what he calls pop’s “golden year.” From soulful ballads and lush orchestration to disco fever and corporate playlists, we look at how melody, meaning, and variety gave way to formula and repetition. Perloff connects the dots between music, media control, and cultural engineering asking whether the decline was just changing tastes or something more deliberate. Part nostalgia trip, part cultural postmortem, it’s a fascinating look at how the soundtrack of our lives got standardized.

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EP.608

Did pop music hit its high note in 1970 and start sliding downhill after? In this episode, we unpack James Perloff’s deep dive into what he calls pop’s “golden year.” From soulful ballads and lush orchestration to disco fever and corporate playlists, we look at how melody, meaning, and variety gave way to formula and repetition. Perloff connects the dots between music, media control, and cultural engineering asking whether the decline was just changing tastes or something more deliberate. Part nostalgia trip, part cultural postmortem, it’s a fascinating look at how the soundtrack of our lives got standardized.

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