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Discussion: Has mainstream music lost its diversity?
Member Since: 2/16/2010
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Originally posted by Bdawg
um dubstep is definitly by all means different and experimental. Not one other song on radio has any dubstep in it at all.
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When I hear it on the radio, it does not sound different or experimental.
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
Christina Perri isn't following her footsteps. Adele isn't. Bruno isn't. There are several others.
The problem with artists releasing ballads or something remotely different from the norm is that some people try to dismiss the music as "boring" or question why the music is successful because they are so used to the dance-pop sound that GaGa, Ke$ha and the like are popular for. Then this whole dumb argument about what's "real" music starts.
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I. HATE. THAT. ARGUMENT!!! Whenever people want to get loud about a song being "boring" because it is slow, or because it is a ballad, i flip a ****. If the singing is strong, the lyrics are good, and the production is tight...I can be much more excited about a ballad than dance music. So much so that I usually listen to slower, ballady music when I need something to keep me awake on late night drives. There is just no ****ing recognition of talent with some people
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by MusicTalker
When I hear it on the radio, it does not sound different or experimental.
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That's cause it's not. 
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Member Since: 6/25/2004
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
I did NOT say that it was a Hip Hop song, but it has some urban elements as most of Black Eyed Peas music does. I know it's a dance song. Now on you go.
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I know that you did not say it was Hip-Hop! I was making a point that rap is mostly used as a form of vocals in Hip-Hop. So when someone does them in a *insertothergenrehere*, it doesn't make it any less *insertothergenrehere*. Rap is just vocals! Like singing or talking in a song! Bottom line there is NO Urban base in IGF, it's just Dance! 
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Oh please, Grenade/ The Lazy Song are as generic as they come.
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Member Since: 5/10/2011
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Member Since: 6/1/2010
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Originally posted by Skin
Oh please, Grenade/ The Lazy Song are as generic as they come.
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They are very generic, but the point is, they aren't following the dance-pop trend that is popular right now.
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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Originally posted by LCTV
Music hasn't, listeners have.
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What does that even mean? lol
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Member Since: 3/21/2010
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Originally posted by MusicTalker
That's what I meant by "with the help of others before & after her". The Bad Romance video set a higher standard for making music videos again. It raised the bar, & became arguably iconic. It leads the packs of the other videos you listed. And SL video is not more iconic than the BR video IMO, but this is not the thread for that.
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well we will see in 10/20 years or so bc right now we can't really tell since those vids just came out and everybody knows them, so there's no since in going over that I guess. *writes in calendar 10 years from now to talk to my bud MusicTalker about vids*
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
They are very generic, but the point is, they aren't following the dance-pop trend that is popular right now.
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They're right along the lines of it.
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
They are very generic, but the point is, they aren't following the dance-pop trend that is popular right now.
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Do yall really think of Bruno's music as dance-pop? I personally love Bruno, and think he has mostly great lyrics, fresh production, and great vocals. I think more Brunos could help the situation, not make it worse.
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Member Since: 6/1/2010
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Originally posted by RedDlicious
Do yall really think of Bruno's music as dance-pop? I personally love Bruno, and think he has mostly great lyrics, fresh production, and great vocals. I think more Brunos could help the situation, not make it worse.
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No, his music is not anywhere near dance-pop. It's pop music, but it's not dance-pop at all.
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Member Since: 2/16/2010
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Originally posted by satellites™
That's cause it's not. |
...Yeah. The "different" songs on radio right now are Rolling In the Deep & could've been Run the World had it done better. California King Bed, if it ever receives good airplay, will be different for the current Top 40 environment, but that song isn't experimental or anything. Just a ballad among dancepop songs.
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Member Since: 3/21/2010
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Originally posted by MusicTalker
When I hear it on the radio, it does not sound different or experimental.
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could you tell me a song that has been experimental or different these past two years?? Edit: I saw your post above
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Member Since: 5/14/2009
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Originally posted by RedDlicious
I hear Til The World Ends on my hip hop stations
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 I heard Rollin In Tha Deep on my Hip Hop station today, i was like
 @ Tha radio station thinking she was blk gurl that came out this yer. Thas why i don't **** wit tha radio no mo,them foolish
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ATRL Moderator
Member Since: 2/19/2003
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I don't think it's a matter of diversity as much as it's a matter of taste/quality,
And trust me kids, growing up in the 90s wasn't that much better.
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Originally posted by Beyond Say
All music has lost it's diversity, but I'll stick to R&B
R&B has most def. lost it's diversity.
When you look back to the 90s you had Brandy, Whitney, Mariah, Lauryn Hill, Mary J, Erykah Badu, Janet etc.
If you wanted to hear about love & heartbreak you had Mary & Brandy
If you wanted to hear something socially conscious you had Lauryn & Erykah Badu
If you wanted to hear a strong power ballad you had Whitney & Mariah.
If you wanted something Sensual and sexy there was Janet.
Now everytime I hear a R&B song it is either about poppin bottles in the club or the same ol sappy love song.
Then on top of that you had groups. There was Boyz II Men, Jodeci, Destiny's Child, En Vogue, TLC etc.
I thik R&b music is falling because no one has creativity anymore and instead of expanding there horizons they are jumping on bandwagons and doing what's hot at the moment.
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Now THIS I will agree with. Contemporary R&B radio is GARBAGE, and has been so for YEARS. Truly, even though the 90s had its fair share of crap - R&B radio was in a much more different, experimental place then.
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Member Since: 6/1/2010
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Originally posted by Ace Reject
I don't think it's a matter of diversity as much as it's a matter of taste/quality,
And trust me kids, growing up in the 90s wasn't that much better. |
I disagree. You might can argue quality, which is subjective, but diversity is something totally different. You can't sit up here and say that one genre or sub-genre was dominant. There were multiple genres/sub-genres dominating radio and the Hot 100.
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Originally posted by TRL Girl
IGF is freaking Dance. Rap is just a form of delivering vocals to a song just like singing, yodeling, shouting, etc. The genre where rap dominates is called Hip-Hop and IGF is NOT Hip-Hop. |
You need to learn how to speak to people on the internet.
This is unacceptable.
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Member Since: 2/16/2010
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Originally posted by Bdawg
could you tell me a song that has been experimental or different these past two years?? Edit: I saw your post above
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Bad Romance, Run the World (Girls), Rolling In the Deep (for Top 40 radio at least), Grenade (arguable), Use Somebody (arguable too - but it was one of the last rock songs all over radio for a long time).
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