Loudness of Music
It’s weird how easily you can notice the differences between the loudness of current music versus music from the 50s and 60s when someone points it out. Before taking this class, I would have never noticed any differences between the two besides one was half a centuries old. I think it’s cool that you can hear the difference in loudness between the two but I dont think there is any specific reasoning to current music being more compressed. Yes, it makes listening to music with headphones or earbuds easier on our ears but that is still not a reason why it became so compressed. It doesn’t mean that singers now are less talented than singers from 50 years ago, just that music is evolving and changing with time. Maybe in another 50 years, music will go back to being less compressed and more dynamic or it could be totally different, you never know.