User blog comment:OtterJiang/English Producers - Same Sound Syndrome (SSS)/@comment-25352448-20150123001415/@comment-25577599-20150123022343

I don't really like Circus or Crusher. That's why I don't usually listen to their songs. But when they're shoved in your face as three back to back demos that all sound the same, it's kind of hard to not. I wanted to hear her voice, and I did. ..Three times the same way.

It's fine to be original and express yourself, but there's nothing wrong with a lot of variety, too. The same sound gets boring. A lot of pop artists know this, believe it or not. That's why on albums, they're not just that upbeat party club music.

Katy Perry's album Prism (2013), for example, has a massive mixture of musical genres. We've got Roar, then Legendary Lovers, which has a really cool India theme to the music, By the Grace of God, which is slower, and a few others. No two sound the same. There are some similarities, but that's what makes it her music.

The difference is that they aren't always poppy, they aren't always the same three chord variations, and they aren't always one genre. They're a variety.

And people like variety. :-)