Some of these people are better than others. Britney Spears, to my surprise (I know, I’m rushing back from the front with news everybody has), is truly awful. Can’t sing. But also her songs are just embarrassing. I think WOMANIZER may be the worst song in ten years. Just garbage.
I should have read the article in full instead of skimming through it, this bitch clearly hasn't heard many pop songs if it thinks 'Womanizer' (#1 debut on B.B.) is the worst song in the last ten years. And Britney has a great voice for pop music, just like Madonna and Rihanna. Britney stay having the gurls fuming over her success.
Since when does the belief that hip-hop and rock cannot be pop exist so strongly? Pop is basically the reduced form of "popular." ANYTHING can become popular.
THISSS
rap fans get so offended when you call them pop
I was talking to a friend's mom about Michael Jackson's impact in the 80's. She told me EVERYBODY would wait and crowd around the tv waiting for Thriller to premiere on MTV.
That's when pop music was interesting and exciting and there is no argument that Gaga brought that feeling back.
I was talking to a friend's mom about Michael Jackson's impact in the 80's. She told me EVERYBODY would wait and crowd around the tv waiting for Thriller to premiere on MTV.
That's when pop music was interesting and exciting and there is no argument that Gaga brought that feeling back.
I was talking to a friend's mom about Michael Jackson's impact in the 80's. She told me EVERYBODY would wait and crowd around the tv waiting for Thriller to premiere on MTV.
That's when pop music was interesting and exciting and there is no argument that Gaga brought that feeling back.
She did, at first, and that's undeniable.
But then she started believing her own hype, lost the plot, and no one really ****s with her videos anymore.
He is right...she's not predictable and her music is always different...you know what britney and riri is gonna release
Gaga writes her own music and that's why she sounds diff from the rest...the same writers are writing all the other artist songs and that's why they sound the same
DEAL!!!!
Even though I don't think GaGa is as interesting as she was when she debuted and her sound is nothing groundbreaking for pop music, I do wholeheartedly agree with this.
I think music in general is terrible. These are the same complaints I read from rap, R&B and rock fans about those genres.
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She did, at first, and that's undeniable.
But then she started believing her own hype, lost the plot, and no one really ****s with her videos anymore.
Right. People aren't as interested in her as they were before.
Truthfully, most of us here are between the ages of 15- 21 and probably don't know too much about music before 2000. My earliest recollections of Top 40 comes from childhood memories like hearing a song like "Foolish" or "Hot In Herre" on the radio on rides home from school or friends cracking jokes about the explicit the lyrics were. I'll admit the only time I really started paying attention to mainstream & chart positions was in 2006. I didn't have an have an iPod so I turned on an old radio to Hot 99.5 and would do my homework listening to Fergie, Justin Timberlake, Akon, Beyonce, Soulja Boy, and whatever else came on MTV and whatever my friends were singing or had on their Myspace players.
So I can't really judge other eras of music too much aside from what I already know about them. Looking back in the 90s and prior it was about the voice. Of course there were a few gimmick artists that slip through cracks with little or not talent, but it was down to a minimum. I don't want to sound like everyone else asking the same played out "What happened to music?", but really, we've hit a pretty bad low over the past few years. I barely even listen to what's on the charts today, and neither do the people I know.
I think someone at BET said it best; "The public wants a Kim Kardashian with a mic". So with a little makeup, autotune, photoshop, and hair-flipping you end up with people like Katy Perry & Ke$ha ruling the charts basically with the same song over and over with a different name. I don't think people are complaining so much about their lack of any lyrical substance so much as the weak composition of the songs themselves.
I'm hoping this is just a warm-up phase so new, innovative artists can break into the industry, yes, because we're not going to remember half of these people even 5 years from now.
Why do you think Rihanna and Katy are releasing albums like the plague? There's little substance to last for two years, which used to be the minimum, and the general public, nowadays, are fickle with their music...
Katy's only had two albums since 2008 how is that "releasing albums like the plague"?
Since when does the belief that hip-hop and rock cannot be pop exist so strongly? Pop is basically the reduced form of "popular." ANYTHING can become popular.
It's just a lack of knowledge. People don't realize there is more than one working definition of popular music, which isn't very surprising because it's been knocked into our skulls that pop = top 40 when that isn't the case at all.
A certain percentage of popular music being empty is nothing new. The 80s had empty music as well. But just like today, there is great music being recognized from the public as well, and ultimately becoming the most memorable music of the time period. The only empty songs remembered are the ones people think are "funny" or "good time songs".
Examples include "I'm Too Sexy for My Shirt" (S&IKI is the modern-day version tbh), Macarena, Blue (Da Ba Dee), Electric Slide, etc. etc.
It will shock no one if I were to say GaGa & Adele will be the most remembered artists of this time in music, along with Bey. Bey is an iconic media presence and she doesn't even need hits to be praised for her music. She's pretty remarkable.
The article had me agreeing until they mentioned Gaga...
I love Teenage Dream and Animal was my #1 album for months after it came out, but they do leave an empty feeling. Sometimes you need another connection to the music that most pop album don't provide. Femme Fatale, LOUD, Talk That Talk, Born This Way, Teenage Dream, and Animal all lack that little something.
Beyonce and Kelly may not release hook-laden, radio ready music, (I ignore, the All I Ever Wanted and the I Am... albums since it is their worst albums to date) but they give LIFE with their albums. You can tell they pour their hearts into their work and aren't just releasing stuff to be on top or be controversial.
That's precisely why Adele, someone so different and the "anti-popstar" of today is being so successful.
