Now, if I’ve understood the blurb correctly, the fifth writer credited on ‘Future Man’ - Bullseye Songwriting Machine – was invented by Sky 1’s Gadget Geeks as a way of ‘synthetically’ creating hit songs by calculating perfect chord progressions and the like. Essentially,it’s the musical equivalent of the fictional ‘Scriptgenerator’ Philippe Vasset wrote of in his 2004 novel, in which a programme produces screenplays, etc., based on permutations of standard plots without need for human intervention, thus meaning there are no royalties to pay and no-one has to struggle to find that 'winning formula' because it's all pre-programmed.
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My first thought on hearing ‘Future Man’ was, therefore, ‘why is this so mind-numbingly bland?’ But the it soon dawned on me that in modern music, it’s all about mass appeal. Nothing too shocking, nothing too challenging, nothing that deviates from the familiar. It really is identikit radio-friendly indie rock, part Coldplay, part Keane, part Travis... and so on, and as formulaic as its possible to imagine.
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