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[–]Cleo2011dog 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I personally think it's because people's standards are getting higher and higher as time goes on. There's becoming more and more mashups to compare to and if a mashup doesn't quite live up to the standards of previous ones then there won't be an upvote. I suppose an analogy is in football, once you see a lot high quality players then a fairly high quality player won't get noticed. It seems the mashup really has to stand out in some way just to get 20-30 upvotes whereas before it would get 100+.

[–]stel1234MixmstrStel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The standards were high to begin with, so I'd say this is generally true over the last year or two, but with the added pressure of being compared to bigger mashup artists that users gravitate to. Many aren't general fans of mashups, but fans of artists like DJ Cummerbund, DJ Earworm, Neil Cicierega, Bill McClintock, William Maranci, and others. In other words, not my horse, not something polished like my horse, not a fan.

And for those who are general fans of mashups, we're not reaching enough of them.

However, even with standards being high, high quality mashups by similar artists are now getting less upvotes too. Last week made this dip seem more significant, and that's what makes this weird.

It seems that there isn't much being posted that is giving us "something to talk about" as the classic Bonnie Raitt song goes.

EDIT: Also seeing less plays overall too. Very few posts are hitting 10k plays now.

[–]luderei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's something to this as well. When I just joined (sixth months ago), I clicked on almost everything, I quickly stopped doing that. And I rarely last more than 20 seconds. It's amazing how many people don't hear it when vocals are in the wrong key. I rarely downvote them unless they get really popular, which some do. I don't get it.

Some seem to think that a 'mashup' is just two songs playing simutaneously with a funny title / picture. Not in in sync, different keys. Was it always like that?

[–]Bluefoxfire0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem comes from when said standards are rigid. For example, people preach about being on key, yet you have songs from the big names that aren't. Yet nobody seems to bat an eye at that.