WHAT CHANGED THE ORIGINAL CONGOLESE MUSIC STYLE.

 WHAT CHANGED THE ORIGINAL CONGOLESE MUSIC STYLE.

The recent trend of increasingly programmed music over live instrumentation is because it's cheaper to record and release. Half the battle of making music today is done when you can program percussions, horn sections, and synths on the keyboard. Where back in the day, you had to factor in whether live horns would sync well with the guitars, keyboards, and drums. This means that music composition was the foundation of song creation, as opposed to improvising melodies on a keyboard or guitar partition and then stretching them out into songs.

In order to conserve cost, rehearsals were constant and music compositions of some of our favorite songs underwent many rewrites to get that sound just perfect enough to record. With a band set up of lead (sometimes mi-solo) and rhythm guitar, it required a dedicated team of studio engineers to properly record and sequence the music with respect to the bass player and drums.

This requires a lot of money, patience, and commitment which I don't think a lot of artists have nowadays in the social media era. It's all about quick output and even faster returns on investment, where as the past required time to create an album that could survive months of rotations because of the power of the music.

As far as lyrics go, maybe it's time for songwriters to reach into themselves and share songs about the things we all go through besides just sex...maybe fables of common life or songs about personal trials (big or small). Atalakus needs to strengthen their craft of creating cries that get people to dance and admire their wordplay (incorporate different languages like Kikongo and Tshiluba).

Those are just my observations.

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