[microsound] VHF in pop

[macdara at email.com]

Does anyone know of a particular reason why very high frequencies (on edge of my hearing anyway) would be used in commercial pop music, there were these sounds being used rhythmically in a shopping centre the other day and I'm wondering are there specific psychoacoustic reasons because it seemed like they were very deliberately being blasted.
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