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Generally speaking you have a lot more diversity in sound.

Latin pop is much bigger and often is present. Kpop makes regular appearances. And now joining their Carribean music cousins are Afrobeats tunes.

More than TikTok optimized, stream optimized. Artists get paid by individual stream, so they make their songs shorter in hopes of getting more streams per album.

I've not noticed that, if anything I'm always delighted to find a 3-minute song these days, it feels like a bit of a lost art.

I always thought most songs were too padded out. E.g chorus repeated 3+ times