Today’s class brought something to my attention that I had never realized before. When professor Omalley had us listen to some popular pop songs and the sounds that I heard was crazy. Today’s music has been compressed in a way that the volume does not change and there is no dynamic range that there use to be in the older sounds like jazz. Today’s music does not have the soft sections and louder sections like songs use to have that helped to engage the listeners and created more emotions in my opinion.

I enjoyed the arguments that everyone was bringing up in this class and found it very interesting because it’s just a concept that I had never thought about. I never really asked myself, why do I like this song? what about it grabs my attention? This class made me rethink the kind of music that I listen to. Because now I will be able to hear this in all the songs I listen to. But I still question why my brain still thinks that the music I’m listening to is getting louder. Is it just an illusion? Or is it something that our generation has just become accustomed to?