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Post by mc98 on Dec 25, 2019 7:47:47 GMT 10
This thread will be about my observations of how electropop started to rise in the late 2000s and dominated the early 2010s.
2006: This year was the first time when electro started to creep-in the music. Influences can be heard in Future Love/Sex Sounds, Loose, and Double Dutchess.
2007/2008: Both years were absolutely urban dominated but the electro influence kept getting bigger. Blackout/Circus, Graduation, and Good Girl Gone Bad were important albums that catapaulted electro into the mainstream. Many urban artist incorporated electro beats into songs like Single Ladies, Stronger, Umbrella, Right Now, Forever, Love In This Club, and Miss Independent. Katy Perry came into the scene with her sound that is described as pop-rock with electro-influences.
2009: Thanks to Lady Gaga, electropop is mainstream. There are only little urban influences this year, it's majorly pop at this point. Black Eyed Peas changed their sound and worked really well for them because it was the right moment. Pitbull also started making electropop songs, before he made urban-style music. Party In The USA was a major shift in Miley Cyrus's sound compared to her pop rock hits like See You Again, 7 Things, and The Climb.
2010: This year was the absolute peak of electropop. The majority of the popular songs were heavily electropop influenced and ushered in the early 2010s sound as we know it. Lady Gaga absolutely dominated 2010. Katy Perry got rid of rock influences in favor of electropop this year. Usher went full pop in 2010 with OMG and DJ Got US Falling in Love. Kesha also dominated 2010 with her extremely electropop songs that topped the charts. Katy Perry got rid of the rock sound and used electropop driven music that helped her top the charts.
2011/2012: EDM came into the scene and gave electropop a more sophistacted and refined sound. Build-ups and drops became common in these two years. Songs like Only Girl, We Found Love, Don't You Worry Child, Party Rock Anthem, Give Me Everything, Gangnam Style, Starships, Die Young, Good Feeling, and On The Floor are examples of EDM/electropop. Dubstep also influenced electropop thanks to Britney Spear's Hold It Against Me.
2013: This year was the last year when electropop was on the charts. There would still be songs like Scream and Shout, I Love It, Timber, Burn, Applause, and The Other Side. Thrift Shop and Can't Hold Us also had electro sounds in certain part of those songs. You could even hear a little electropop in We Can't Stop but it was more minimal and transitional compared to other major electropop hits. Katy Perry released Roar with a little electropop influence but later released Dark Horse, which is more EDM-Trap influence.
2014: Electropop is no longer dominating the charts. Such electropop sounds still can be heard in songs like Summer and Break Free but it was clearly no longer the hot sound as it once was.
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Post by Cassie on Dec 25, 2019 11:36:31 GMT 10
This thread will be about my observations of how electropop started to rise in the late 2000s and dominated the early 2010s. 2006: This year was the first time when electro started to creep-in the music. Influences can be heard in Future Love/Sex Sounds, Loose, and Double Dutchess. 2007/2008: Both years were absolutely urban dominated but the electro influence kept getting bigger. Blackout/Circus, Graduation, and Good Girl Gone Bad were important albums that catapaulted electro into the mainstream. Many urban artist incorporated electro beats into songs like Single Ladies, Stronger, Umbrella, Right Now, Forever, Love In This Club, and Miss Independent. Katy Perry came into the scene with her sound that is described as pop-rock with electro-influences. 2009: Thanks to Lady Gaga, electropop is mainstream. There are only little urban influences this year, it's majorly pop at this point. Black Eyed Peas changed their sound and worked really well for them because it was the right moment. Pitbull also started making electropop songs, before he made urban-style music. Party In The USA was a major shift in Miley Cyrus's sound compared to her pop rock hits like See You Again, 7 Things, and The Climb. 2010: This year was the absolute peak of electropop. The majority of the popular songs were heavily electropop influenced and ushered in the early 2010s sound as we know it. Lady Gaga absolutely dominated 2010. Katy Perry got rid of rock influences in favor of electropop this year. Usher went full pop in 2010 with OMG and DJ Got US Falling in Love. Kesha also dominated 2010 with her extremely electropop songs that topped the charts. Katy Perry got rid of the rock sound and used electropop driven music that helped her top the charts. 2011/2012: EDM came into the scene and gave electropop a more sophistacted and refined sound. Build-ups and drops became common in these two years. Songs like Only Girl, We Found Love, Don't You Worry Child, Party Rock Anthem, Give Me Everything, Gangnam Style, Starships, Die Young, Good Feeling, and On The Floor are examples of EDM/electropop. Dubstep also influenced electropop thanks to Britney Spear's Hold It Against Me. 2013: This year was the last year when electropop was on the charts. There would still be songs like Scream and Shout, I Love It, Timber, Burn, Applause, and The Other Side. Thrift Shop and Can't Hold Us also had electro sounds in certain part of those songs. You could even hear a little electropop in We Can't Stop but it was more minimal and transitional compared to other major electropop hits. Katy Perry released Roar with a little electropop influence but later released Dark Horse, which is more EDM-Trap influence. 2014: Electropop is no longer dominating the charts. Such electropop sounds still can be heard in songs like Summer and Break Free but it was clearly no longer the hot sound as it once was. Would say around 2007 or 2008 was the beginning of Electopop being popular and 2013 was when it started to decline, and in 2014 it died completely.
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Post by John Titor on Dec 25, 2019 13:42:17 GMT 10
This thread will be about my observations of how electropop started to rise in the late 2000s and dominated the early 2010s. 2006: This year was the first time when electro started to creep-in the music. Influences can be heard in Future Love/Sex Sounds, Loose, and Double Dutchess.2007/2008: Both years were absolutely urban dominated but the electro influence kept getting bigger. Blackout/Circus, Graduation, and Good Girl Gone Bad were important albums that catapaulted electro into the mainstream. Many urban artist incorporated electro beats into songs like Single Ladies, Stronger, Umbrella, Right Now, Forever, Love In This Club, and Miss Independent. Katy Perry came into the scene with her sound that is described as pop-rock with electro-influences. 2009: Thanks to Lady Gaga, electropop is mainstream. There are only little urban influences this year, it's majorly pop at this point. Black Eyed Peas changed their sound and worked really well for them because it was the right moment. Pitbull also started making electropop songs, before he made urban-style music. Party In The USA was a major shift in Miley Cyrus's sound compared to her pop rock hits like See You Again, 7 Things, and The Climb. 2010: This year was the absolute peak of electropop. The majority of the popular songs were heavily electropop influenced and ushered in the early 2010s sound as we know it. Lady Gaga absolutely dominated 2010. Katy Perry got rid of rock influences in favor of electropop this year. Usher went full pop in 2010 with OMG and DJ Got US Falling in Love. Kesha also dominated 2010 with her extremely electropop songs that topped the charts. Katy Perry got rid of the rock sound and used electropop driven music that helped her top the charts. 2011/2012: EDM came into the scene and gave electropop a more sophistacted and refined sound. Build-ups and drops became common in these two years. Songs like Only Girl, We Found Love, Don't You Worry Child, Party Rock Anthem, Give Me Everything, Gangnam Style, Starships, Die Young, Good Feeling, and On The Floor are examples of EDM/electropop. Dubstep also influenced electropop thanks to Britney Spear's Hold It Against Me. 2013: This year was the last year when electropop was on the charts. There would still be songs like Scream and Shout, I Love It, Timber, Burn, Applause, and The Other Side. Thrift Shop and Can't Hold Us also had electro sounds in certain part of those songs. You could even hear a little electropop in We Can't Stop but it was more minimal and transitional compared to other major electropop hits. Katy Perry released Roar with a little electropop influence but later released Dark Horse, which is more EDM-Trap influence. 2014: Electropop is no longer dominating the charts. Such electropop sounds still can be heard in songs like Summer and Break Free but it was clearly no longer the hot sound as it once was.
inspired her to make The Fame.I always considered 2006 or for that matter the later portion as the BETA/Early Electropop start. It was this very song 2006's Man Eater that I knew something was feeling " DIFFERENT" with music all of a suddenFlash forward to early 2007 and Red One's songs were starting to be heard in small clubs, most
of Red One's early production would be reused for Gaga's The Fame in 2008.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 25, 2019 19:40:15 GMT 10
The origins of electropop in the mainstream can really be traced back to as early as 2004, when Gwen Stefani released her debut solo single, "What You Waiting For?". That song very much inspired the electropop songs that would become popular several years later. From here onwards is when it starts to vary depending on your country though. Here in Australia, elements of electropop began to emerge on the charts starting from about the second-half of 2006. Sneaky Sound System achieved their major breakthrough towards the end of that year with "I Love It", which was an electropop-inspired dance track. They continued to have more success in 2007 thanks to songs such as "UFO", "Pictures" and "Goodbye". Also in 2006, TV Rock (another Australian artist) topped the charts with their very synth-heavy pop song, "Flaunt It": {Spoiler}
Electropop was at it's peak from about the second-half of 2008 to the first-half of 2013. Lady Gaga may be regarded as having been a huge game-changer at the time and there's no doubting that she was, but honestly, from what I remember, it was actually when The Preset's "My People" became a massive hit that I can remember thinking that we were entering into a new era for music. Lady Gaga's breakthrough was mainly around the turn of 2009. "My People" was a hit here in Early-Mid 2008, but the breakthrough of Lady Gaga (as well as the success of the song itself) actually resulted in it re-entering the charts for several weeks around Christmas of that year. The genre was definitely still popular when I started high school in January 2012, but towards the middle of 2013, it began to decline in chart presence and EDM had replaced it by the end of the year.
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Post by Telso on Dec 26, 2019 1:59:28 GMT 10
You can actually trace the electropop sound's origins all the way back to the early 2000s when a new kind of house called "electrohouse" first started to use to those buzzing sawtooth synthesizers that would dominate in the electropop era. For pop, I would consider Timbaland's work for multiple stars, in particular Justin Timberlake, as a major precursor. And a lot of people, myself included, credit Britney's 2007 Blackout as an important watershed moment for that movement. This year was the first time when electro started to creep-in the music. Influences can be heard in Future Love/Sex Sounds, Loose, and Double Dutchess. While I agree for Future Love/Sex Sounds and Loose to a lesser extent, where would the electropop sound be on Double Dutchess? To me that album is very urban pop of its time.
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Post by mc98 on Dec 26, 2019 5:56:14 GMT 10
You can actually trace the electropop sound's origins all the way back to the early 2000s when a new kind of house called "electrohouse" first started to use to those buzzing sawtooth synthesizers that would dominate in the electropop era. For pop, I would consider Timbaland's work for multiple stars, in particular Justin Timberlake, as a major precursor. And a lot of people, myself included, credit Britney's 2007 Blackout as an important watershed moment for that movement. This year was the first time when electro started to creep-in the music. Influences can be heard in Future Love/Sex Sounds, Loose, and Double Dutchess. While I agree for Future Love/Sex Sounds and Loose to a lesser extent, where would the electropop sound be on Double Dutchess? To me that album is very urban pop of its time. I would say songs like Clumsy and Glamourous had electropop influences in Double Dutchess.
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Post by Early2010sGuy on Dec 26, 2019 15:18:22 GMT 10
You can also say that Electropop was inspired and influenced by Disco from 1974-1980, synthpop from 1977-1985, Dance pop from 1983-1988, and Teen Pop from 1996-2001 because without those genres, Electropop would've not been made. Even if Electropop existed without those genres, it would sound very different and Katy Perry/Lady Gaga would've not been popular, or Electropop would've been developed in a much later date...
Take Bizarre Love Triangle for example, a New Wave/Synthpop song that has that VERY Early Electropop sound
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