Music on Reality TV is Insanely Deceptive

The use of stock music on Reality TV (Gordon Ramsay & Kitchen Nightmares, America’s Got Talent, The Bachelor, Married at First Sight, etc.) has become more blunt over the last 20 years, constantly reusing the same tropes to present a simplistic, highly reified portrait of people & animals. Misrepresenting the world. In this video I break down the most common musical tropes used across various types of Reality TV comparing them to similar tropes used in nature documentaries to show how manipulative and unsophisticated they are. --- Please consider supporting me on Patreon Twitter Discord --- Subtitles by Pentameron --- The ’Other’ in Music Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music --- About Archetypes in Branding ---- Helpful Reification Links: Introductory: Reification, Music and Problems of Modern Philosophy - Jonathan Lewis, 2014 (c07e3c0b-baa5-4001-85f5-a8a6db1c8340).html Adorno: A Critical Introduction - Simon Jarvis, 1998 =oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Advanced: History & Class Consciousness, Georg Lukacs, 1923 Dialectic of Enlightenment - Adorno, Theodor, 1944 Philosophy of Modern Music - Adorno, Theodor, 1949