See what you think. A very ordinary song with no mass appeal - production uses all the old tricks, nothing new at all that wasn't being done in the last century (bring in the drums... drop out the track... etc etc BORING) - There's nothing wron g with it but absolutely nothing unusual or mass appeal.

Each to their own, but I can't see why it is a hit.
I am baffled.

I'm fully with you on this lack of genuine mass appeal hit music. If we had a Venn diagram of music nowadays there would be very little overlapping, everything would be within its own little circle, untouched by anything else, it seems to me. Also, and I don't know if you'd agree with this, but too many mediocre or unremarkable people are being told they are something special nowadays when they are not, whilst anything potentially really exciting or very different won't get a look in, if it even exists anymore in the first place.

What a dreadful name Chappell Roan is for a music artist. It sounds like the name of a village or something.

So what is the solution to creating a return to the mass appeal song? There have been a handful of shows on Radio 2 on recent bank holidays with Mark Goodier playing songs that have had 1,000,000,000 streams (1 billion), as if this was a meaningful yardstick of popularity. I think it's a fraud and dishonest. Much of this music was unknown to me and very obscure, much of it had barely sold on release with the older tracks. Very major genuine mass appeal artists had nothing that merited a billion streams, some of the biggest names of all time.

Your opinion on this JK?

Sounds like every other song at the moment; nothing stands out anymore. Digitalised vocals, music videos done by green screens and other basic tech.

Is music now an age thing, or is it because everything has been done and created? Lord Sutch pretty much created shock rock way back in the 1960s with his axe throwing stunts at his band members.

Rich wrote:
I'm fully with you on this lack of genuine mass appeal hit music. If we had a Venn diagram of music nowadays there would be very little overlapping, everything would be within its own little circle, untouched by anything else, it seems to me. Also, and I don't know if you'd agree with this, but too many mediocre or unremarkable people are being told they are something special nowadays when they are not, whilst anything potentially really exciting or very different won't get a look in, if it even exists anymore in the first place.

What a dreadful name Chappell Roan is for a music artist. It sounds like the name of a village or something.

So what is the solution to creating a return to the mass appeal song? There have been a handful of shows on Radio 2 on recent bank holidays with Mark Goodier playing songs that have had 1,000,000,000 streams (1 billion), as if this was a meaningful yardstick of popularity. I think it's a fraud and dishonest. Much of this music was unknown to me and very obscure, much of it had barely sold on release with the older tracks. Very major genuine mass appeal artists had nothing that merited a billion streams, some of the biggest names of all time.

Your opinion on this JK?

I think we need to stream the be-Jesus of this on Spotify. I am still baffled after 40 years why this is was not the single for the album.