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I mean, key changes may not be popular right now, but things have a way of coming back around. Sooner or later, someone is going to make a really good song with a key change and then it's going to be back in rotation.

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That's not necessarily true.... Swelling vibrato-heavy string backing on choruses were a staple for decades, have been gone for just as long, and are probably never coming back thank god.

I'd take that bet. I'd bet you that backing by full-blooded, real bowed strings, with plummy vibrato and all, will come back in style at some point in the next thirty years.

aight

To be fair, later can be very later. On the order of decades even.

And maybe it just winds up with a dedicated niche audience. Never fully mainstream, but never out of the current culture either. It's hard to predict what people will like in the future. The best we can do is just do things we like.

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