So I had the misfortune of looking at a bunch of royalty free music for my current workplace and it really just made it very clear how formulaic and uninspiring they are. It was like hearing 100s of the same song.

I’m curious what makes something sound uninspiring to you, what exactly differentiates good musicality/production to just ‘factory line music’. What are some definite hallmarks of boring music to you?

I don’t want to talk in terms of BAD or GOOD - although it is probably tied up in there somewhere.