I've long had a strong dislike of the radio, and the speech patterns of the presenters, but this dislike has spread to the television and I struggle quite quickly to bear any of it for even short periods of time. Perhaps since an autistic diagnosis, late in life, I've started to look at these things from a different perspective.
The thing that strikes me is the relentless pattern of relentlessness, the urgency of transmission of the most mundane inconsequential message. It is nothing but an interference pattern to my thinking. An interfering noise. Yet if I am to raise this with a colleague or friend or family member it is I am the abnormality. Recently the musician Ed Sheeran has been exhibiting some of his Jackson Pollock paintings and while looking for information about this I ended up reading a Guardian article [ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/06/how-ed-sheeran-changed-pop] about just this thing with Ed Sheeran being the subject. I was quite pleased to read such strong criticism of his music. *"Rather than chart hits reflecting divergent tastes and fandoms, a select few songs and artists dominate..."* *"his magpie proclivities tend to remove all subversion and idiosyncrasy from the original genres, producing a more palatable middle-ground sound machine-tooled to climb the charts... genres become a mild seasoning ... to pique interest without alienation... The end result is a sludgy, vague, inoffensive post-genre sound that has served to homogenise music in general."* I also feel this has happened to the speech patterns of media presenters. It's as recognisable and triggering as the tells of AI in AI art. The tells of AI art don't even need to be the obvious six fingers instead of five or an ear that looks like a carrot. The colour schemes... The intensity. The ramping up, the amplification, the loudness wars. Hyper saturation. My brain has been saturated with this and can bear no more. Any recommendations for critical reading of this stuff please. I'm miles out from the art and academic world, no connection with it.
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