When you have an entire band of people who are all playing instruments for the sake of making a song, it’s every single person in the band who is constantly assessing every action. You’re never going to have a situation in which nobody notices the drums are bland, unexciting, or derivative—the drummer will, unless he is not good. I believe most modern music listeners take aspects like this for granted, assume that all music of a certain style is “more or less” the same, and any arbitrary thing could be swapped out for a “sufficiently similar” thing without losing anything fundamental about the music.
When you have an entire band of people who are all playing instruments for the sake of making a song, it’s every single person in the band who is constantly assessing every action. You’re never going to have a situation in which nobody notices the drums are bland, unexciting, or derivative—the drummer will, unless he is not good. I believe most modern music listeners take aspects like this for granted, assume that all music of a certain style is “more or less” the same, and any arbitrary thing could be swapped out for a “sufficiently similar” thing without losing anything fundamental about the music.