AdoAdorno explains that music has divided into two spheres. There's an apparent split between serious music and popular music. He explains how music has fallen to standardization, with the structures of the songs and the notes within that bars that are put together follow certain standard rules. Each big hit is pretty much the same when it comes to the fundamental values of the songs.
He notes that the serious music never follows a musical scheme to creating a piece. The music is unorthodox and there is more relationship between the detail, whereas popular music is nothing like this and once a listen hears the start of a song they can quite easily tell what's going to happen next throughout the song. There is no real effort required from the listener when trying to engage with the music.
The standardization of popular music has effected people's attire and their social interaction. People are now striving to become individuals and are searching for something of their own, when everything sounds the same and there are other people trying to do the same thing.
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
There are plenty of examples that show the standardization of popular music within this music video. When listening to the song you can predict what is going to happen next. The structure of the song is like most popular songs, intro, verse, break, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus and outro. The beat is a steady drone of about 140 bpm in 4/4 timing and throughout the whole song it doesn't change. This makes the song very easy to listen to and it drives the song on it's boring road from start to the end, where one of the ladies ends with "...my body's too bootylicious for you baby". From the success of this song compared to the effort that must've gone into making it shows how people are force fed this type of music, and because someone else you know is listening to it you start to like it yourself.
The guitar part has been sampled from a Fleetwood Mac just shows how old songs that have died out are now being brought back into more modern songs to increase the repetition of what's being created today. Stevie Nicks appearance also gives the video some kind of accolade that then pulls people in to view it's contents and her rocking on her guitar.
Just like every other girl band music video there is a lot of dancing and glamorous people prancing about the screen. I looked up the video to try and get more information and the dance moves featured in the video were inspired by Michael Jackson, the video features a lot of steps he used for his songs. This just solidifies the fact that within popular music every song you listen to is the practically the same.
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