Today we read and discussed an article on how music is highly compressed nowadays and how that reflects that tastes have changed over time. The professor argued that he thinks that it cheapens the emotions that go into music, which I really disagree with. I honestly don’t think that it makes music any less meaningful or hollow, it simply caters to the needs of people who listen to music today as a supplement to life and not as an action that requires undivided attention. A lot of older people love to make fun of newer music by saying that it is repetitive, uncreative, and shallow, but I don’t think that this is a fair generalization to make,