– Compression: making quieter parts of a song equal to the loudest part of a song
– the entire song is one volume even if the emotions change
– recast the meaning of public and private- intimacy and loudness go hand in hand which they shouldn’t

Everything is one volume to take emotion out of the music and into the lyrics. It makes it possible to have the same song as background music or the main focus depending on what you want and not how the song is produced. It gives us control in a sense

older music focus is midrange freq.
modern music is emphasized on bass and treble with a scoop in midrange- comes from development of earbuds
Electronic music switches between bass and treble so often the constant change makes it easy to listen to when you have a very short attention span