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Post by broadstreet223 on Nov 7, 2019 7:29:36 GMT 10
I saw a thread titled "2000s sounding songs in 2009" and thought I'd do a sequel for songs from this year. While it may be too early to tell what music will sound like in the 2020s, there's a good chance that at least the first half of the decade will sound similar to today's music. Here's a list of songs that were made or were popular in 2019 that sound like they could've been popular at any point in this decade:
Happier
Middle Child
Sucker
You Say
Dancing With A Stranger
High Hopes
Shallow
Sweet But Psycho
Sicko Mode
Youngblood
Eastside
Someone You Loved
Bad Guy
Here With Me
Worth It
Miss Me More
Going Bad
I Don't Care
Senorita
Hey Look Ma, I Made It
Never Really Over
Beautiful People
Speechless
Walk Me Home
If I Can't Have You
Circles
Memories
One Thing Right
Lover
Trampoline
Lose You To Love Me
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Post by mc98 on Nov 8, 2019 8:33:02 GMT 10
Bad Guy and Circles don’t really sound 2010s to me.
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Post by Early2010sGuy on Nov 8, 2019 9:18:41 GMT 10
Bad Guy and Circles don’t really sound 2010s to me. I agree. Even Lizzo's new song Good As Hell doesnt sound like a 2010s song
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Post by Telso on Nov 8, 2019 9:51:13 GMT 10
"Bad Guy" is definitely a product of the whole detached pop trend of the late 2010s and even features a trap section for good measure.
"Shallow" strikes me as pretty un-2010s, not many acoustic power anthems were popular this decade.
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Post by mc98 on Nov 8, 2019 10:21:30 GMT 10
"Bad Guy" is definitely a product of the whole detached pop trend of the late 2010s and even features a trap section for good measure. "Shallow" strikes me as pretty un-2010s, not many acoustic power anthems were popular this decade. So, what songs on the list don’t sound 2010s to you?
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Post by Telso on Nov 8, 2019 10:49:37 GMT 10
"Bad Guy" is definitely a product of the whole detached pop trend of the late 2010s and even features a trap section for good measure. "Shallow" strikes me as pretty un-2010s, not many acoustic power anthems were popular this decade. So, what songs on the list don’t sound 2010s to you? I just mentioned a song that doesn't, also "Lover" by Taylor Swift is closer in sound to late 20th century soft rock rather than anything from this decade. Especially compared to the bro-country trend that invaded country charts it is incredibly alien.
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Post by mc98 on Nov 8, 2019 10:55:20 GMT 10
So, what songs on the list don’t sound 2010s to you? I just mentioned a song that doesn't, also "Lover" by Taylor Swift is closer in sound to late 20th century soft rock rather than anything from this decade. Especially compared to the bro-country trend that invaded country charts it is incredibly alien. Sweet But Psycho does sound like a 2008-09 song. Circles sounds like a mid 90s alternative rock song which could be the next hot sound.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 8, 2019 15:32:30 GMT 10
I just mentioned a song that doesn't, also "Lover" by Taylor Swift is closer in sound to late 20th century soft rock rather than anything from this decade. Especially compared to the bro-country trend that invaded country charts it is incredibly alien. Sweet But Psycho does sound like a 2008-09 song. Circles sounds like a mid 90s alternative rock song which could be the next hot sound. "Sweet But Pyscho" is very much a product of it's time, as is "Circles". The former would have sounded out of place had it been released during the Late 2000s. The synths used in the bridge sound unquestionably "2010s" and the production techniques differ from those used in pop releases back in 2008/09. I also don't believe "Circles" sounds like a mid-'90s alt-rock song. Foster the People or Cage the Elephant could have released it.
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Post by broadstreet223 on Nov 9, 2019 0:48:20 GMT 10
"Bad Guy" is definitely a product of the whole detached pop trend of the late 2010s and even features a trap section for good measure. "Shallow" strikes me as pretty un-2010s, not many acoustic power anthems were popular this decade. Power anthems were actually a pretty big thing around 2012-2015, with songs like “Hall of Fame” and “I Lived”
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Post by Early2010sGuy on Nov 9, 2019 3:33:25 GMT 10
Sweet But Psycho does sound like a 2008-09 song. Circles sounds like a mid 90s alternative rock song which could be the next hot sound. "Sweet But Pyscho" is very much a product of it's time, as is "Circles". The former would have sounded out of place had it been released during the Late 2000s. The synths used in the bridge sound unquestionably "2010s" and the production techniques differ from those used in pop releases back in 2008/09. I also don't believe "Circles" sounds like a mid-'90s alt-rock song. Foster the People or Cage the Elephant could have released it. Circles and Losing My Religion sound very similar. Circles also has some Grunge elements.
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Post by mc98 on Nov 9, 2019 3:38:13 GMT 10
I wonder what song right now will most likely be the sound of the early 20s.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2019 8:27:33 GMT 10
I just mentioned a song that doesn't, also "Lover" by Taylor Swift is closer in sound to late 20th century soft rock rather than anything from this decade. Especially compared to the bro-country trend that invaded country charts it is incredibly alien. Sweet But Psycho does sound like a 2008-09 song. Circles sounds like a mid 90s alternative rock song which could be the next hot sound. The very first time I heard "Sweet But Psycho" I thought the same thing. It sounds like something that could have been released during the electropop era.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2019 8:29:32 GMT 10
I wonder what song right now will most likely be the sound of the early 20s. If I had to guess now, I'd say probably anything by Billie Eilish.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 9, 2019 8:57:42 GMT 10
"Sweet But Pyscho" is very much a product of it's time, as is "Circles". The former would have sounded out of place had it been released during the Late 2000s. The synths used in the bridge sound unquestionably "2010s" and the production techniques differ from those used in pop releases back in 2008/09. I also don't believe "Circles" sounds like a mid-'90s alt-rock song. Foster the People or Cage the Elephant could have released it. Circles and Losing My Religion sound very similar. Circles also has some Grunge elements. Sorry but i'm going to have to strongly disagree with you on that; they sound nothing alike. The production between the two songs is completely different for starters, but the types of instrumentation used contrasts as well. Also, "Circles" sounds absolutely nothing like Grunge either. Not only does the song have a polished sound, features vibrato & auto-tune, and has production techniques found in current pop releases, but it contains none of the stylistic characteristics which define Grunge as a genre. Where's the sludgy electric guitar or distorted bass chords? Where is the punk or metal influence? It has none of those elements. Compare "Circles" with a real grunge song, such as "Come As You Are". No similarities whatsoever:
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Post by Telso on Nov 9, 2019 23:37:03 GMT 10
"Sweet, but Psycho" is at best structured like a song from 2009 (it actually has basically has a very similar melody to Jay Sean's "Down"), but otherwise I very much agree with Sharksfan that in instrumentation is completely different from songs of back then. People tend to exaggerate and call anything both upbeat and electronically made harkening back to the electropop era. It does not feature the jittery synth stabs that were popular back then, and features a cleaner echoey production full of reverb and even some vocal chops in the bridge that are very widespread nowadays. It is closer to this very 2019 song: Than to this very 2009 song: Power anthems were actually a pretty big thing around 2012-2015, with songs like “Hall of Fame” and “I Lived” Those are empowering songs, not power ballads. They don't depict emotional journeys, and aren't structured around continuous buildups instrumental-wise. And with all the synthetic drumkits and vocal processing, they aren't very acoustic either.
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