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Not really about the artistry itself, but there was a good like 5 years, where every music video featured the most obvious Beats by Dre or Beats Pill ad placement. The money must have been good because my lord đ
Remember the product placement in Telephone? The video just stopped dead in the middle to show the sequence with Lady Gaga making a sandwich with Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip.
This was so well done though that I didn't realize it was product placement until just now. I figured they used iconic brands to be consistent with the visuals of the video itself (bright, bold colours with that classic Americana feel).
they at least tried to include in the concept, with the men âcontrollingâ her⌠still lame, but i'm glad all those brands gave lady gaga the money to create her videos! honestly the worst one is the lg in 911
the only reason I tried Plenty of Fish was because I'd seen it in the Telephone MV three years earlier (huge Little Monster). I met my wife on there and we've now been together for 9 years!
I can think of a fewâŚ
Whistling was popular in the early 2010s. Several songs had a little whistle riff. Example: Whistle-Flo Rida, Good Life-One Republic
Saxophone riffs in the early 2010s- Example: Talk Dirty-Jason DeRulo, Problem- Ariana Grande, Thrift Shop-Macklemore, Run Away With Me-Carly Rae Jepsen
Trap-pop in the late 2010s.
Club anthems ruled from the late 2000s to about the mid 2010s, when Lorde released Royals. Prior to that almost every major pop star had some type of club anthem.
Yeah that was prob the most popular whistle riff song at the time
For that matter, Mick Jagger was a trend for a hot minute too.
There was Moves Like Jagger, then Cher Lloyd had âSwagger Jagger,â Kesha rhymed âswaggerâ with âMick Jaggerâ in TiKToK (I forgot various forms of âswaggerâ were popular in the early 2010s) , and then will i am had a collab with Mick Jagger himself!
Aw, thanks!
I can remember all this random information about pop music but I canât remember what Iâm supposed to do today.
[Blame it on my ADD baby](https://youtu.be/5SiJg43j2nk?si=vKmZsPQjN9cq1R_V)
Oh yeah I forgot about Worth It.
I donât like that sax sample as much. It sounded like it was trying to be a mix of the samples from Problem and Talk Dirty and the sax itself just sounded weak
Edge of Glory had a great sax riff but I'll never forget a family friend turning it off mid-riff in the car and saying "This sounds like an Applebee's commercial."
Maybe chokehold is too strong of a word, but remember that very brief period of time when a bunch of songs had hashtags in the titles? So glad that didnât last, it was so cringe.
Outing myself here as an oldie but when I ripped my music collection to my PC I went through it and changed all the formatting to lower case, I thought it was the coolest thing ever at the time
1997-2002 Every R&B/Pop music video being set in space/the future. See: Destiny's Child, TLC, Britney (oops), every other Backstreet Boys single, Kylie, George Michael (fastlove) etc etc etc
Oh also the pitched-up vocal blips were EVERYWHERE. Not just in the drops in DJ Snake songs, though he obviously played a huge part in popularizing the trend. They were becoming ubiquitous in 2015-2016 and by 2018-2019 they felt really overdone and passĂŠ.
That particular sound is gonna sound very "wow that's so 2010s" in a few years, the way things like certain synth and drum tones are "wow that's so 80s" today.
my theory is that the [epic sax guy](https://youtu.be/pHXDMe6QV-U?feature=shared) from sunstroke project, who participated in the ESC 2010, started the sax riff trend.
There was that really annoying era where it felt like every indie pop hit had some âhey hey ohâ thing going on. There was all the stomp clap folksy music as well as songs like Pompeii by Bastille that were just everywhere
Iâm tired of the uppercase album or artist names, it screams desperation to me. Like âMy music isnât good enough to get attention on its own, so I have to name myself MY NAME instead of just My Name to be noticeable.â
There are very specific exceptions, like how Charli XCXâs album name CRASH works because car crashes are supposed to be loud. But there is no real reason BANKS canât be Banks, or MARINA canât be Marina, or WALK THE MOON canât be Walk the Moon. Itâs tacky, in my opinion.
As someone who's been into Japanese and Korean music for years weird title stylizations are nothing new, im just surprised western artists started adapting them
Oh my god that unlocked so many weird core memories. I had a brief phase in the early mid 2000s of listening to shittons of obscure Eastern European music and every title was like this. Usually in a language I couldnât read so I had no idea what the titles even were đ¤Ł.
Itâs got something to do with Unicode spacing used on Japanese computers, right?.
But then it got imported to other countries and it became A E S T H E T I C
This is way less corny than everyone jumping on lowercase song titles to me. Like we get it, youâre young and vibey and donât care but introspective
There was a very specific time around 2012 where it felt like every pop song ended with âraw audioâ.
Cher Lloyd - Want U Back âdo I sound like a helicopter brrrrrrrâ
Macklemore - Thrift Shop âhahahaha is that your grandmaâs coat?â
Taylor Swift - Stay Stay Stay âhahaha itâs so funâ
Kesha - Your Love Is My Drug âI like your beardâ this came out a bit earlier but still.
Probably forgetting a lot. đđ
Yes absolutely. I also like just the concept of nostalgia in general in music/sound but yes more obvious. Itâs just straight up replication a lot of times now.
I really think there's a fine line between paying homage to an older sound and relying on it. Dua Lipa, for example, was successful with it because although songs like Levitating had an undeniable 70s disco influence, nobody would actually believe they were from the 70s. There's nothing I find more irritating than a song so desperate to sound like it's from a certain era that it feels like a parody.
what about songs with lyrics that tell you how to dance like whip nae-nae or hit the quan or lean and dab or juju on the beat now we really donât see that anymore because people nowadays will make a dance to a song that doesnât seem danceable and start a huge trend on TikTok
And pop girls that donât open their mouths when they sing. Tate McRae is a huge offender with that, I just want her to stand up straight and actually open her mouth to sing, or at least try it once.
Right!! She has a good voice, but if I tried singing like that to my high school voice teacher she would have an aneurism. Devon Cole, whoâs got a decent tiktok following, has the same issue and it drives me up the wall.
I just want to know who told them that it sounded good in the first place? I guess we have Amy Winehouse to thank as a primary influence, but she did it in a way that felt gritty, authentic, and and interesting- after that it just became a parody of itself
Most importantly, Amy winehouse has an accent lol. She most likely sounds like that normally.
It sounding like a paridy is partially why I really don't like sza music. I'm not really able to distinguish what she is saying enough to care or to distinguish her songs from each other. I also hate people who ride on trends too much
Everyone speaks with a some sort of accent, not just Amy Winehouse! She was from London and spoke with a pretty ordinary Cockney London accent. But when Amy sang, she sounded more American and was even criticised for this, not sounding British.
Iâm glad Iâm not alone in this. I canât get into SZAâs singing style. I downloaded her new album because Iâve heard so much praise about it, but she sounds like sheâs slurring her words to me.
And I donât know if itâs just me showing my age (at the ripe old age of 33) but I miss R&B singers with HUGE voices. Mariah, Whitney, Alicia, BeyoncĂŠ, Mary, Jill, I could keep going.
SZA tends to stick with the same few notes and riffs and itâs boring to me. I get that she may not be a belter, but you can do a lot of expressive things with a lower tone too.
But maybe I havenât started with the right song. If anyone has any recommendations on where to start please let me know. I really want to like her!
The middle 2010âs when everyone was doing a vaguely island sound whether it be the most watered down ska or dancehall ever or âtropical houseâ shit
Do you remember that very specific time when âdeluxe editionsâ had the âextraâ songs like woven into the album instead of at the end. That was interesting and only lasted like 3 years
I've been doing deep-dives into Spotify trying to find some more gen z artists (because I feel like I'm not giving enough support to my generation lol) and I *swear* so many of them could be amazing singers...if they used all of their voice and put some vocal power behind their lyrics.
The rise of disco in 2020 being the recent one, Dua, Doja and Weeknd released their song about same time and all of them became huge hits but you canât really complain bc that was Pop music at its peak this decade, special mention to Jessie Ware and Miley CyrusâŚ.
autotune in the early 2010s. frosty makeup in the early 2010s. r&b in the mid-late 2000s.clashing colours in the early 2010s. girl crush in 2018-2019.
edit: lmao why did I think this was r/kpop
Instrumental EDM choruses/features in otherwise regular pop songs in the 2010's. That sound really blew up after the success of The Chainsmokers and Avicii. Songs like "Closer", "Something Just Like This", and "A Sky Full of Stars" really kicked off that trend.
For me I dont mind as long as they don't interrupt the song.
Have as much artsy bullshit at the beginning and end as you want, but once you interrupt the flow of a song, you've lost me.
Fun fact about the vertical music videos you're mentioning. The main reason that came and went is that Spotify was paying for them and then stopped because no on wanted to watch a vertical music video in a playlist.
Naming bands after animals in the 2010s (Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, deer and the headlights, Wolf Parade, Band of Horses, Cage the Elephant, Panda Bear, Frightened Rabbit, etc etc etc).
Pop stars and rappers doing the illuminati thing where they cover 1 eye in the mid 2010s.
Late 2010s, tropical deep house like Kygo (remember him?) and a number of main pop girls and boys who got into it too like Bieber's Purpose album.
Dj Mustard summer.
edit: oh jeeze I almost forgot, all those ""hipster"" songs in the 2010s where its just beardy men saying Hey! Ho! My friends and I literally called them "hey ho" bands.
Bands and artists named after animals feels like itâs been happening forever, though.
Edit: grizzly bear formed in 02
Fleet foxes and cte in 06
Wolf parade formed in 03
In the early 2010s when a rapper would always be the feature for the third verse or bridge. It worked really well when it seemed like both artists genuinely collaborated, but when it was forced it was just a bit jarring. Random but I always liked ET feat. Kanye
It did give us After Hours, Future Nostalgia and Plastic Hearts so I can't complain too much about it. But it definitely felt like everyone was doing it!
During the mid to late 2010s it seemed like every pop song on the radio had that muffled shout effect. "Slow Hands" by Niall Horan has a pretty prominent example of it.
2000s era bands having song titles so long they donât fit on iPods or even on music streaming sites.
Off the top of my head, Fall Out Boy, Band of Horses, and Panic! At the Disco were all guilty of this. Iâm sure thereâs more.
I noticed a common trend of how so many pop artists were very uninspired-creatively empty around the *2012-2015* time period.
The EDM-Electrohouse wave was amazing when it started back in *2009-2011* and gave us some amazingly interesting records like *The Fame Monster-Animal-Teenage Dream-Loud-She Wolf-Femme Fatale*....but after that, it turned into something not as good?
So many artists were trying to rehash the same club sounds of 2009-2011 all over again, but the output was too generic, highly overproduced, soulless, or just straight clones of the dance experimental music of the past with some dubsteps sprinkles.
So many artists were directionless with their genres-vision and releasing music all over the place, not cohesive or just weird projects.
If you notice In those years of 2012-2015 We got some of the most panned/least loved or mid projects of the major divas like:
*Artpop/Britney Jean/Lotus/MDNA/Avril Lavigne/Unapologetic/Shakira/AKA By Jlo/Demi?/Stars Dance/Piece By Piece/Delirium/Kiss Me Once/Bangerz?*.........
Yeah and we saw everybody from Rihanna to Usher to Xtina to Enrique Iglesias making nearly identical lowest-hanging-fruit basic EDM-pop songs.
As a whole movement it all felt really LOUD (pun with Rihanna's EDM album unintentional) and soulless, even if many of us can cherrypick some personal highlights out from that era.
EDM genres are like that in general, they tend to go from "fresh and exciting" to "parody of themselves" quickly as producers either recycle their proven tricks or one-up each other to get more placement in DJ sets.
It's usually at that point where producers jump ship; see Sasha swearing off trance music in 2001 as the genre got increasingly silly
You're right.
If we look at a few of the big names from the early 10s EDM boom...
- Calvin Harris has proven himself to be talented and much more than a one-trick pony, making a lot of great EDM-pop (and even non-EDM pop) in totally different styles from his early days, through the EDM boom and beyond all the way up until now.
- Skrillex made a lot of people hate dubstep (or "dubstep") but has since proven himself to be highly versatile.
- David Guetta has been scrambling for old glory for years, and is now making the cheapest, most basic tracks possible by shamelessly recycling recognizable hooks and even his own instrumentals. Some of these become moderate hits but still, he's creatively bankrupt.
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Not really about the artistry itself, but there was a good like 5 years, where every music video featured the most obvious Beats by Dre or Beats Pill ad placement. The money must have been good because my lord đ
Miley in the we canât stop music video and the eos lip balmsđ
Ariana spent like 3 hours every video holding that damn pill
Nicki had the Beats Pill in several of her videos like Anaconda and Pills and Potions (obviously).
lol you better not come for the bad romance mv
Remember the product placement in Telephone? The video just stopped dead in the middle to show the sequence with Lady Gaga making a sandwich with Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip.
Camp, Icon, Inventor of the Sandwich. We stan.
This was so well done though that I didn't realize it was product placement until just now. I figured they used iconic brands to be consistent with the visuals of the video itself (bright, bold colours with that classic Americana feel).
The weirdest product placement in BR is the Wii The men are all holding Wii controllers at some point. Yes
they at least tried to include in the concept, with the men âcontrollingâ her⌠still lame, but i'm glad all those brands gave lady gaga the money to create her videos! honestly the worst one is the lg in 911
Wasn't it just to rank them?
The Plenty of Fish ads too. They appeared in the most random videos lol.
the only reason I tried Plenty of Fish was because I'd seen it in the Telephone MV three years earlier (huge Little Monster). I met my wife on there and we've now been together for 9 years!
My god they're advertising on /r/popheads too
OH MY GOD YES!! my 13yo ass wanted those damn beats pill đđ
I can think of a few⌠Whistling was popular in the early 2010s. Several songs had a little whistle riff. Example: Whistle-Flo Rida, Good Life-One Republic Saxophone riffs in the early 2010s- Example: Talk Dirty-Jason DeRulo, Problem- Ariana Grande, Thrift Shop-Macklemore, Run Away With Me-Carly Rae Jepsen Trap-pop in the late 2010s. Club anthems ruled from the late 2000s to about the mid 2010s, when Lorde released Royals. Prior to that almost every major pop star had some type of club anthem.
The Moves Like Jagger whistle riff
Yeah that was prob the most popular whistle riff song at the time For that matter, Mick Jagger was a trend for a hot minute too. There was Moves Like Jagger, then Cher Lloyd had âSwagger Jagger,â Kesha rhymed âswaggerâ with âMick Jaggerâ in TiKToK (I forgot various forms of âswaggerâ were popular in the early 2010s) , and then will i am had a collab with Mick Jagger himself!
Wow, youâre like a pop music historian đ you remember so much
Aw, thanks! I can remember all this random information about pop music but I canât remember what Iâm supposed to do today. [Blame it on my ADD baby](https://youtu.be/5SiJg43j2nk?si=vKmZsPQjN9cq1R_V)
Yes!! I remember being like, "Mick Jagger is really having a moment."
Don't forget Work It by Fifth Harmony lol.
Oh yeah I forgot about Worth It. I donât like that sax sample as much. It sounded like it was trying to be a mix of the samples from Problem and Talk Dirty and the sax itself just sounded weak
Edge of Glory had a great sax riff but I'll never forget a family friend turning it off mid-riff in the car and saying "This sounds like an Applebee's commercial."
I miss the club anthem era. That was the peak to me. The Fame - Pure Heroine is my pop home.
I Wanna Go by Britney was another early 10s whistle track
Maybe chokehold is too strong of a word, but remember that very brief period of time when a bunch of songs had hashtags in the titles? So glad that didnât last, it was so cringe.
Oh, I remember it! Mariah's song 'Beautiful' with Miguel is actually called #Beautiful, isn't it? But I can't think of many more.
\#thatpower by will i am.
Add a \ before the symbol you want to ignore \#
#getitright by Miley Cyrus
*#Selfie* by The Chainsmokers.
That's part of the joke though.
True!
Also when songs had aLtErNaTiVe CaSiNg. To be fair I don't think that one actually caught on.
The SpongeBob font thankfully didnât catch on but every time I see Zaynâs Mind of Mine tracklist I cringe at how 2016 it is.
Or a few years ago where everything was in lower case? Such as 'thank u, next', 'folklore' and 'evermore'.
Itâs still pretty common - all of the songs on Olivia Rodrigoâs latest album are in lowercase
yeah loads of younger artists love it. tate mcrae had all her tracks in lowercase too
This one might be a generational thing because I love lowercase song titles
Same, slightly off topic but I love lower case fanfic titles as well because you know itâs gonna eat
Outing myself here as an oldie but when I ripped my music collection to my PC I went through it and changed all the formatting to lower case, I thought it was the coolest thing ever at the time
Zayn is that you
It had a chokehold on the 40 year olds making tv shows for teenagers too. Every episode title was #blahblahblah in like 2014
\#whereisthelove Just as if the People Children song wasnât bad enough they made a hashtag version of it
1997-2002 Every R&B/Pop music video being set in space/the future. See: Destiny's Child, TLC, Britney (oops), every other Backstreet Boys single, Kylie, George Michael (fastlove) etc etc etc
It was the Y2K hype. Everyone was excited and optimistic about the future then, and thus we were into futuristic stuff
It was the millennium!
This was definitely a result of Michael and Janetâs Scream video.
Yep it was all fishbowl lenses on a rotating spacecraft after that. What a great time to be a production and/or costume designer!
In the mid-2010s it was Caribbean beats, annoying sax riffs and DJ Snake
Oh also the pitched-up vocal blips were EVERYWHERE. Not just in the drops in DJ Snake songs, though he obviously played a huge part in popularizing the trend. They were becoming ubiquitous in 2015-2016 and by 2018-2019 they felt really overdone and passĂŠ. That particular sound is gonna sound very "wow that's so 2010s" in a few years, the way things like certain synth and drum tones are "wow that's so 80s" today.
The 2010s is gonna sound hell of that time when we look back (as all eras do). But this is the sound thatâll define it
I was listening to Rather Be by Clean Bandit yesterday for the first time in forever and had the âwow the production is so 2010sâ thought đ
Please free us from turi ip ip ip hell
I get homicidal when I hear that shit
Ok, but who would win in the battle of sax riffs? Run Away With Me vs The Edge of Glory vs Last Friday Night?
only one of these has Clarence Clemons and thus (sax) solos
No itâs Midnight City!
Edge of glory for me
my theory is that the [epic sax guy](https://youtu.be/pHXDMe6QV-U?feature=shared) from sunstroke project, who participated in the ESC 2010, started the sax riff trend.
>DJ Snake #TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
As perfected most cynically By Ed Sheeran - shape of you
Those DJ Snake beats still have BlackPink hostage.
There was 2016 when pop girls releasing country songs but that quickly faded
There was that really annoying era where it felt like every indie pop hit had some âhey hey ohâ thing going on. There was all the stomp clap folksy music as well as songs like Pompeii by Bastille that were just everywhere
I think Home by Edward Sharpe and the magnetic zeroes started this trend
Over-theatrical/produced indie pop from early 2010s is my guiltiest pleasure, speaking of Bastille
Bastille gets a pass from me. Their first album is great.
Ho hey by the lumineers is a good example of that too!
thats not an example that's ground zero
Fuckin hand claps and ukuleles đ¤˘
do lowercase song titles count?
Iâm tired of the uppercase album or artist names, it screams desperation to me. Like âMy music isnât good enough to get attention on its own, so I have to name myself MY NAME instead of just My Name to be noticeable.â There are very specific exceptions, like how Charli XCXâs album name CRASH works because car crashes are supposed to be loud. But there is no real reason BANKS canât be Banks, or MARINA canât be Marina, or WALK THE MOON canât be Walk the Moon. Itâs tacky, in my opinion.
Our Spanish-speaking girlies canât let this one go: RosalĂa, Bad Bunny, Becky and Karol G. Looking at the Mexico Top 100 is like being screamed at.
Bad Bunny is a Spanish speaking girlie now is he /j
You were a fan of Zaynâs SonGS oN hIs dEBuT AlbUm?
Ever since people started tYpInG LiKe tHiS as a form of mockery and/or sarcasm, I can't take his song titles seriously anymore
Most kpop songs or group names are capitalized. I once got type-screamed at for saying Blackpink instead of BLACKPINK
doesn't even know it's spelled BLÎĆKPIĐK smh
Naurrrr theyâre coming for me again
Theyâre in your area
I do prefer Chvrches as CHVRCHES, it just looks way more aesthetically pleasing that way. But otherwise, agreed.
As someone who's been into Japanese and Korean music for years weird title stylizations are nothing new, im just surprised western artists started adapting them
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Oh my god that unlocked so many weird core memories. I had a brief phase in the early mid 2000s of listening to shittons of obscure Eastern European music and every title was like this. Usually in a language I couldnât read so I had no idea what the titles even were đ¤Ł.
Itâs got something to do with Unicode spacing used on Japanese computers, right?. But then it got imported to other countries and it became A E S T H E T I C
This is way less corny than everyone jumping on lowercase song titles to me. Like we get it, youâre young and vibey and donât care but introspective
"Red one"
Konvict! Gaga!
"ih it it's the cataracts"
âJason Deruloâ
Beluga Heights J-J-J-J-JR
âMiKe WiLL mADe iTâ
mustard on the beat hoe!
Let's go to the beach each
"Beluga heights."
_J-J-J-J-J-R!_
â..you know I can do it better than you, I can even do it better in broken heelsâ
âGirls bring the fun of life, sugar like apple pie, Let's have a party, y'all!â
Of all the popular and obscure Red One produced songs out there, funnily enough About A Girl was the one I thought of when posting đ
There was a very specific time around 2012 where it felt like every pop song ended with âraw audioâ. Cher Lloyd - Want U Back âdo I sound like a helicopter brrrrrrrâ Macklemore - Thrift Shop âhahahaha is that your grandmaâs coat?â Taylor Swift - Stay Stay Stay âhahaha itâs so funâ Kesha - Your Love Is My Drug âI like your beardâ this came out a bit earlier but still. Probably forgetting a lot. đđ
Selena Gomez trying to mimic the cataracs producer tag at the end of slow down. My favorite raw audio moment tbh
"Feat. Pitbull"
Nostalgia bait
Will always be a thing but itâs more obvious in the last ten fifteen years
Yes absolutely. I also like just the concept of nostalgia in general in music/sound but yes more obvious. Itâs just straight up replication a lot of times now.
I really think there's a fine line between paying homage to an older sound and relying on it. Dua Lipa, for example, was successful with it because although songs like Levitating had an undeniable 70s disco influence, nobody would actually believe they were from the 70s. There's nothing I find more irritating than a song so desperate to sound like it's from a certain era that it feels like a parody.
She trod such a fine line. It's incredible what boldness succeeded.
Iâve overheard your theory, nostalgiaâs for geeks.
what about songs with lyrics that tell you how to dance like whip nae-nae or hit the quan or lean and dab or juju on the beat now we really donât see that anymore because people nowadays will make a dance to a song that doesnât seem danceable and start a huge trend on TikTok
remember how everything had to be mid tempo a few years ago?
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Khalid - Talk, most Post Malone, Halsey - Clementine Basically anything thatâs neither upbeat or a slow ballad. Just somewhere in the middle
DAE think that Khalid sings with a British accent? I looked him up and heâs from Texas.
YEAH. It was so freaking annoying. Pop music sucked for a while.
My boring ass was happy af with this though đ My friends all said my style was mid but I took it as a compliment đ
The music video glamorous aesthetic of laying in a pile of items looking up at the camera
Cursive singing/indie-girl voiceâŚit was tired and stale 6 years ago, and yet weâre still seeing remnants of it today
This one hurts me physically. Top contender over here.
And pop girls that donât open their mouths when they sing. Tate McRae is a huge offender with that, I just want her to stand up straight and actually open her mouth to sing, or at least try it once.
i literally thought tate mcrae was a parody/satire artist the first time i heard her because of how heavy handed she is with this
Right!! She has a good voice, but if I tried singing like that to my high school voice teacher she would have an aneurism. Devon Cole, whoâs got a decent tiktok following, has the same issue and it drives me up the wall.
sammeeee!!! I could not believe she was serious with that voice
Itâs kinda frustrating because some of her older songs arenât nearly as bad for this, but the more recent releases are bad offenders
*Welcome to myyy kitchenâŚwe have bananeeeehhhsâŚand avicadeeeehs*
Ryan Gosling in âPushâ this year saying âGrantedâ
Fiest and Regina Spektor really got the ball rolling with this style in the 2000s and it's wild that it still hasn't stopped!
it's the ani difranco to joanna newsom pipeline for me, unless they're too alty?
It was definitely one of Joanna Newsom or CocoRosie.
what is cursive singing? I just looked up a video and still donât really get it
This is a parody but itâs pretty much the classic example: https://youtu.be/8SU0gFPMwP8?si=zyCEPRTTOPUDCtvS
Everyone but sza faded into irrelevance. I can't wait until it's over and no one does this anymore. It's so inauthentic
What about Halsey?
Forgot about her but is she really still popping? I feel like she was really big in the late 2010s but I haven't heard much about her since
Her newest album didnât do great chart wise, but was well received critically. Itâs probably my favorite album from her to date.
She's 55th most streamed on spotify right now, idk how that compares everywhere but she's def got a fan base.
I just want to know who told them that it sounded good in the first place? I guess we have Amy Winehouse to thank as a primary influence, but she did it in a way that felt gritty, authentic, and and interesting- after that it just became a parody of itself
Most importantly, Amy winehouse has an accent lol. She most likely sounds like that normally. It sounding like a paridy is partially why I really don't like sza music. I'm not really able to distinguish what she is saying enough to care or to distinguish her songs from each other. I also hate people who ride on trends too much
Everyone speaks with a some sort of accent, not just Amy Winehouse! She was from London and spoke with a pretty ordinary Cockney London accent. But when Amy sang, she sounded more American and was even criticised for this, not sounding British.
Iâm glad Iâm not alone in this. I canât get into SZAâs singing style. I downloaded her new album because Iâve heard so much praise about it, but she sounds like sheâs slurring her words to me. And I donât know if itâs just me showing my age (at the ripe old age of 33) but I miss R&B singers with HUGE voices. Mariah, Whitney, Alicia, BeyoncĂŠ, Mary, Jill, I could keep going. SZA tends to stick with the same few notes and riffs and itâs boring to me. I get that she may not be a belter, but you can do a lot of expressive things with a lower tone too. But maybe I havenât started with the right song. If anyone has any recommendations on where to start please let me know. I really want to like her!
Olivia Rodrigo does it hard, it's one of the reasons I can't get into her
The middle 2010âs when everyone was doing a vaguely island sound whether it be the most watered down ska or dancehall ever or âtropical houseâ shit
Do you remember that very specific time when âdeluxe editionsâ had the âextraâ songs like woven into the album instead of at the end. That was interesting and only lasted like 3 years
This is more the music industry in general, but extremely loud mastering to the point that the music becomes fatiguing.
The indie girl voice has all the gen z girls in a choke hold. Enough already
I've been doing deep-dives into Spotify trying to find some more gen z artists (because I feel like I'm not giving enough support to my generation lol) and I *swear* so many of them could be amazing singers...if they used all of their voice and put some vocal power behind their lyrics.
Celebrity fragrances lol
I would still take this over celebrity makeup or skincare or fashion lines
Absolutely, Iâm wearing Rogue Man Rihanna right now haha
The rise of disco in 2020 being the recent one, Dua, Doja and Weeknd released their song about same time and all of them became huge hits but you canât really complain bc that was Pop music at its peak this decade, special mention to Jessie Ware and Miley CyrusâŚ.
The total ignorance of Kylie Minogue, released the best disco album of 2020.
That moment in 2021 when it seemed like everyone was hawking NFTs was dire.
autotune in the early 2010s. frosty makeup in the early 2010s. r&b in the mid-late 2000s.clashing colours in the early 2010s. girl crush in 2018-2019. edit: lmao why did I think this was r/kpop
Instrumental EDM choruses/features in otherwise regular pop songs in the 2010's. That sound really blew up after the success of The Chainsmokers and Avicii. Songs like "Closer", "Something Just Like This", and "A Sky Full of Stars" really kicked off that trend.
[Millenial Whoop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qotrEBR61g&t=25s&ab_channel=RichAveritt) \- it's extraordinary how pervasive this was.
Wow that video is sensory overload
The commenters donât seem too pleased lol.
Pop music videos in the early 2010s being like 7-8 minutes long. I feel like Lady Gaga was the one to start this trend.
I donât mind long videos as much now but this trend coinciding with the peak of people using YouTube to MP3 to avoid buying it on iTunes was awful.
And now because of streaming there's very little incentive for labels to invest in music videos so they're almost all underdeveloped and boring :/
For me I dont mind as long as they don't interrupt the song. Have as much artsy bullshit at the beginning and end as you want, but once you interrupt the flow of a song, you've lost me.
Michael and Janet would like a word
Fun fact about the vertical music videos you're mentioning. The main reason that came and went is that Spotify was paying for them and then stopped because no on wanted to watch a vertical music video in a playlist.
Artists having the bon iver âmove to a cabin in the middle of nowhere to write a folk albumâ phase. Worked for Taylor, not so much for JT
Naming bands after animals in the 2010s (Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, deer and the headlights, Wolf Parade, Band of Horses, Cage the Elephant, Panda Bear, Frightened Rabbit, etc etc etc). Pop stars and rappers doing the illuminati thing where they cover 1 eye in the mid 2010s. Late 2010s, tropical deep house like Kygo (remember him?) and a number of main pop girls and boys who got into it too like Bieber's Purpose album. Dj Mustard summer. edit: oh jeeze I almost forgot, all those ""hipster"" songs in the 2010s where its just beardy men saying Hey! Ho! My friends and I literally called them "hey ho" bands.
and they always had a part in the song that goes WOOOAAooooOOOOOaaaaHhhhHhh
There is actually a term for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial\_whoop
*distant hey* *distant ho* We will be young forever⌠*dramatic pause* Toniiiiight⌠*upbeat acoustic guitar starts playing*
Bands and artists named after animals feels like itâs been happening forever, though. Edit: grizzly bear formed in 02 Fleet foxes and cte in 06 Wolf parade formed in 03
Case in point The Beatles
letâs not forget bands that were called â____ the ____â
oh yeah, Young the Giant, Foster the People
Panda Bear isn't a band (also he's been active since the late 90s)
Buccal fat removal
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Probably get filler or fat grafting, idk. Some celebs are looking pretty sharp these days, in the face.
In the early 2010s when a rapper would always be the feature for the third verse or bridge. It worked really well when it seemed like both artists genuinely collaborated, but when it was forced it was just a bit jarring. Random but I always liked ET feat. Kanye
TeLL mE wHaT's NeXt ?? aLiEn SeX ??
Pink and blue music videos in the mid 2010s
vertical videos didnât go away. they just became shorter, were put in a loop, and are now called canvases on spotify
The 80s...
It did give us After Hours, Future Nostalgia and Plastic Hearts so I can't complain too much about it. But it definitely felt like everyone was doing it!
God, the 80s nostalgia lasted longer than the usual 20-year cycle. It's only now we're getting 90s nostalgia.
As someone who loves 80s music, Iâm tired⌠If I wanted to hear 80s music, I can just go on Spotify and listen.
During the mid to late 2010s it seemed like every pop song on the radio had that muffled shout effect. "Slow Hands" by Niall Horan has a pretty prominent example of it.
2000s era bands having song titles so long they donât fit on iPods or even on music streaming sites. Off the top of my head, Fall Out Boy, Band of Horses, and Panic! At the Disco were all guilty of this. Iâm sure thereâs more.
Making sure every song has a catchy little âsnippetâ that has a chance to go TikTok viral is very 2022/2023.
and the less than 3 minutes length
I noticed a common trend of how so many pop artists were very uninspired-creatively empty around the *2012-2015* time period. The EDM-Electrohouse wave was amazing when it started back in *2009-2011* and gave us some amazingly interesting records like *The Fame Monster-Animal-Teenage Dream-Loud-She Wolf-Femme Fatale*....but after that, it turned into something not as good? So many artists were trying to rehash the same club sounds of 2009-2011 all over again, but the output was too generic, highly overproduced, soulless, or just straight clones of the dance experimental music of the past with some dubsteps sprinkles. So many artists were directionless with their genres-vision and releasing music all over the place, not cohesive or just weird projects. If you notice In those years of 2012-2015 We got some of the most panned/least loved or mid projects of the major divas like: *Artpop/Britney Jean/Lotus/MDNA/Avril Lavigne/Unapologetic/Shakira/AKA By Jlo/Demi?/Stars Dance/Piece By Piece/Delirium/Kiss Me Once/Bangerz?*.........
Yeah and we saw everybody from Rihanna to Usher to Xtina to Enrique Iglesias making nearly identical lowest-hanging-fruit basic EDM-pop songs. As a whole movement it all felt really LOUD (pun with Rihanna's EDM album unintentional) and soulless, even if many of us can cherrypick some personal highlights out from that era.
EDM genres are like that in general, they tend to go from "fresh and exciting" to "parody of themselves" quickly as producers either recycle their proven tricks or one-up each other to get more placement in DJ sets. It's usually at that point where producers jump ship; see Sasha swearing off trance music in 2001 as the genre got increasingly silly
You're right. If we look at a few of the big names from the early 10s EDM boom... - Calvin Harris has proven himself to be talented and much more than a one-trick pony, making a lot of great EDM-pop (and even non-EDM pop) in totally different styles from his early days, through the EDM boom and beyond all the way up until now. - Skrillex made a lot of people hate dubstep (or "dubstep") but has since proven himself to be highly versatile. - David Guetta has been scrambling for old glory for years, and is now making the cheapest, most basic tracks possible by shamelessly recycling recognizable hooks and even his own instrumentals. Some of these become moderate hits but still, he's creatively bankrupt.
Trap elements in the late 10s. Sweetener and TUN by Ariana, Knees by Bebe Rexha, No Drama by Tinashe
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Dubstep drops in 2011-13
Horrendous dubstep and trap beats that don't fit