User blog comment:OtterJiang/English Producers - Same Sound Syndrome (SSS)/@comment-32500188-20150123025440

Like it's been said, it's not just an English/Western thing. This is just as common in any language or side of the globe. I could name a number of producers, some of them even among my favorites, that have plenty of songs that overlap in style once you listen to enough of their tracks. (Can't deny it if I tried, either... but I think that's part of what makes me like their music.) I'd probably get fried good for thinking that they do, but seriously... I don't have too much of a problem with this, but I do see where it could develop into wanting something more adventurous from someone down the road in terms of musical ideas and such.

It's a niche that any musician has in creating their own identified sound to set themselves apart from any others. It's not a bad thing, but on the flip side, it sometimes isn't a good thing to keep it that way, either... when musical ideas tend to overlap with each other quickly in such cases, it also possibly leads down the path of eventually running dry with a fresh sound in one's music. I mean, this is something that happens in the music industry a lot, so it's nothing new... it's just takes time for folks to get a feel for what they want to convey in their music and when they feel ready to branch out and flex out their musical wings a bit more than what they've become comfortable with.

So when it comes to composing more varied music and genres, whether it be instrumental styles or rhythmical/chordal motifs, it's not something that just comes very easy to a lot of folks, and like I said, takes time for some people to grow from one point in their music to a whole new step... all without sacrificing what makes their music special, not just to their fans, but mostly to themselves. So I definitely admire those who are able to do whatever type of cross-genre composing easily and be able to retain "their sound" without question. It's something I'm personally working towards as well, and it takes a lot of branching out in listening to/study of different genres of music to help achieve that goal.