Is Music Ever Going to Run Out?

            This week a question crossed my mind; will we ever run out of music? Music is my life. Every day I wake up with a song running through my head. Everywhere I turn I run into music, and I love it. Some people might call me a nerd for liking music and being obsessed over it and it is 100% true. I am ok with being a music nerd, it is what ultimately gets me through the day. Without music, life would be boring and bland, like cereal without milk. I would wake up and be empty, nothing to fuel my brain. The answer to this question, no, music will always be there.

            So what happens when all the possible melodies have been written? The only problem with this statement, the melodies are always going to be there, at least in my lifetime. There are so many different combinations of pitches that have not been written that there will always be different possibilities. The only problem is whether or not people can find these new melodies. It seems like there are many songs that have the same, or relatively the same, melody line. That could become a problem. If people just copy the same melody line but change the words, how is that different music?

I ran across a video that got my attention as it talks about this topic. It explains that even songs like God Bless America and God Save the Queen have the exact same melody, only different words. So how, if we haven’t already, ran out of new music? That is also explained in the video. Because there is such a large amount of different possibilities, we have not gotten to the full extent of our music statistically.

In my opinion, we will never run out of new music. Even though there are many songs that might sound alike, there is such a large amount of different melody lines that there is no way to run out of music in my lifetime. This is a relief to me. I don’t know what I would do without new exciting music to rotate my life around.