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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2021 18:19:51 GMT 10
Like in 2020, several people remarked at the throwback music saying how different and alien it sounded compared to 2010s music acting as if throwback music hasn’t existed before. Why do people make a mountain out of a molehill out of little changes?
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Post by 10slover on Dec 4, 2021 21:18:28 GMT 10
Like in 2020, several people remarked at the throwback music saying how different and alien it sounded compared to 2010s music acting as if throwback music hasn’t existed before. Why do people make a mountain out of a molehill out of little changes? That's not what people were remarking at all They were talking about how dominant throwback music was in that year Throwback music was never this dominant during the 10s, not even in 2019
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Post by Telso on Dec 7, 2021 20:59:16 GMT 10
I mean, people already complained about the amount of throwback-sounding music back in 2015 ("Uptown Funk", "Want to Want Me", "Shut Up and Dance", "Can't Feel My Face", ...). There's indeed literally nothing new to this regardless of how they tend to stick around longer in the charts now.
The year where throwback music truly felt cutting edge was 2013, after years of electropop, house and dubstep, hearing stuff like "Get Lucky" or "Treasure" truly was refreshing.
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Post by dudewitdausername on Dec 8, 2021 0:50:46 GMT 10
I mean, people already complained about the amount of throwback-sounding music back in 2015 ("Uptown Funk", "Want to Want Me", "Shut Up and Dance", "Can't Feel My Face", ...). There's indeed literally nothing new to this regardless of how they tend to stick around longer in the charts now. The year where throwback music truly felt cutting edge was 2013, after years of electropop, house and dubstep, hearing stuff like "Get Lucky" or "Treasure" truly was refreshing. I mean those songs actually represent the mid 10s well looking back on them, I didn't even know "Can't Feel My Face" and "Want to Want Me" were throwbacks until you brought it up tbh, they just sound like 2015 to me. "Starboy" sounds like 2016 and 2017 to me. Similar songs to them which actually represent this era well are "Don't Start Now" and "Break My Heart", but "Blinding Lights" and "Levitating" (No. 1's in 2020 and 2021) seem like corny imitations of a very old era. There's a good way to do throwback music by incorporating a unique modern touch, but most of 2020 and 2021's biggest throwback hits didn't do that.
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Post by mc98 on Dec 8, 2021 1:29:37 GMT 10
I mean, people already complained about the amount of throwback-sounding music back in 2015 ("Uptown Funk", "Want to Want Me", "Shut Up and Dance", "Can't Feel My Face", ...). There's indeed literally nothing new to this regardless of how they tend to stick around longer in the charts now. The year where throwback music truly felt cutting edge was 2013, after years of electropop, house and dubstep, hearing stuff like "Get Lucky" or "Treasure" truly was refreshing. I mean those songs actually represent the mid 10s well looking back on them, I didn't even know "Can't Feel My Face" and "Want to Want Me" were throwbacks until you brought it up tbh, they just sound like 2015 to me. "Starboy" sounds like 2016 and 2017 to me. Similar songs to them which actually represent this era well are "Don't Start Now" and "Break My Heart", but "Blinding Lights" and "Levitating" (No. 1's in 2020 and 2021) seem like corny imitations of a very old era. There's a good way to do throwback music by incorporating a unique modern touch, but most of 2020 and 2021's biggest throwback hits didn't do that. True, Uptown Funk may have throwback elements, but the song structure and vibe is very 2015. It has a build up and drop like the EDM songs of the time lol.
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Post by Telso on Dec 8, 2021 1:50:28 GMT 10
I mean those songs actually represent the mid 10s well looking back on them, I didn't even know "Can't Feel My Face" and "Want to Want Me" were throwbacks until you brought it up tbh, they just sound like 2015 to me. "Starboy" sounds like 2016 and 2017 to me. "Can't Feel My Face" is clearly a throwback to Michael Jackson, very much along the lines of "Rock With You" and "Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough". "Want to Want Me" is pretty exactly what Dua Lipa is doing right now: take a normal dance song and put a funky beat behind. You could say the exact same thing about 2020/21 music though. They are also modernizations. "Blinding Lights" is synthwave-inspired rather than a proper mid-80s new wave/synthpop song. It lacks the crashing percussion and the gated drums. The drum line is too clean and the reverbed vocals are overdone. "Levitating" is basically a modern dance song with a funk guitar. It doesn't sound remotely similar to anything released in the late 70s/early 80s. Same with pretty much all the other Dua Lipa songs.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2021 2:34:34 GMT 10
Like in 2020, several people remarked at the throwback music saying how different and alien it sounded compared to 2010s music acting as if throwback music hasn’t existed before. Why do people make a mountain out of a molehill out of little changes? A lot of people on this site are obsessed with repeating patterns and decadeology and pop music is usually the litmus test. Sometimes cultural changes rhyme but other times they don't. I believe that the 2020s are a unique time and that the 2010s were the last decade to follow the 20th century decade formula.
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