This Beato video has only been out a day or two, and I avoided it because I no longer have any exposure to "modern" pop music. Tonight, I clicked on it, because I realized "I no longer have any exposure to "modern" pop music." I watched/listened to it on my laptop, with its tiny speakers, and I think I sorta recognized a song or two (probably played in the supermarket or the obnoxious kid in the Hyundai next to me at some stoplight).
I was tempted to purchase Taylor Swift's new album, as ALL tracks hit the Top Ten (top ten what, I dunno) and two of those tracks were on this list.
Guano. What guano! The EQ balance, the mixes, the constant autotuning, and the near-absence of any kind of a hummable/singable melody, confirmed maybe why I chose to "no longer have exposure to "modern" pop music". How can any high-end audio system sound "better" than something else, with such obscenely-manipulated original tracks??? I really wish a track of the recent Snarky Puppy album, or similar, could have been dropped in somewhere in the middle, for a grounding reference point. And I won't be ordering the new Taylor Swift stuff anymore; there's nothing there.