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Post by -- on Mar 5, 2016 20:39:32 GMT
New Kendrick Lamar! It's a compilation of unmastered demos, but it sounds great. Kendrick is easily my favorite rapper at the moment. I like the compilation too. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2016 20:41:38 GMT
I see exactly what you mean by the value of maturity. I think everyone wants that critically acclaimed album and usually those albums happen to be the more broken down and simpler albums. The mainstream has turned into r&B and alt r&b with some electronic hits here and there. Nothing special. I think its cause 2009 - 2012 were highs for music. The mainstream was really at an all time high because we had hit after hit after hit. And thats when it was One Direction, The Wanted, Rihanna, Beyonce, Britney, Kesha, Gaga, Katy, Nicki, Usher, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Demi, J.Lo, etc, they were all over the place with hits and the mainstream was just thriving. In all of it's genres. Now I feel like Hip Hop and R&B kinda took over that but the stuff that's out by mainstream hiphop/rnb artists arent that good anyways. idk, i just seem really bored witht he mainstream. Underground is always lit but like the mainstream is boring. A lot of the up and coming artists are jut cheaper quality versions of artists that were just popping two years ago. And i think it has to do with the crew of original pop stars from 2008, have grown up and don't make music like they did because they've grown. I think we need a whole new generation of pop stars but i feel like they'll just be reboots of the ones before and it wont sound as good. I think what's happening is that popstars don't exist anymore - only one hit wonders. All new pop music is created by these gone-with-the-wind faces that will never make it past their first EP, let alone album. Look at Carly Rae Jepsen - she was/is a great artist but unfortunately, "Call Me Maybe" was just too big of a hit, and everyone got sick of it, and no one wanted to ever hear her voice again. I agree, 2009-2012 was a prime time for pop music. Now, R&B and hip-hop are overwriting the genre. There's nothing wrong with R&B and hip-hop except for the fact that pop music is losing it's place. Hip-hop can still be "pop" music if it's popular, but what is pop music if it's not popular? What do we call it? It's not like there's really an underground scene or even a name for pop-sounding music (excluding PC music because it's somewhat experimental). Taylor Swift?? Katy Perry??? Selena Gomez??? Ariana Grande?  ?? I mean i don't like all of their oeuvres but you can't deny they're genuine 'popstars' with more than one hit/ EP. One hit wonders have always existed. |
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Post by pixel on Mar 5, 2016 20:51:46 GMT
I think what's happening is that popstars don't exist anymore - only one hit wonders. All new pop music is created by these gone-with-the-wind faces that will never make it past their first EP, let alone album. Look at Carly Rae Jepsen - she was/is a great artist but unfortunately, "Call Me Maybe" was just too big of a hit, and everyone got sick of it, and no one wanted to ever hear her voice again. I agree, 2009-2012 was a prime time for pop music. Now, R&B and hip-hop are overwriting the genre. There's nothing wrong with R&B and hip-hop except for the fact that pop music is losing it's place. Hip-hop can still be "pop" music if it's popular, but what is pop music if it's not popular? What do we call it? It's not like there's really an underground scene or even a name for pop-sounding music (excluding PC music because it's somewhat experimental). Taylor Swift?? Katy Perry??? Selena Gomez??? Ariana Grande? ?? I mean i don't like all of their oeuvres but you can't deny they're genuine 'popstars' with more than one hit/ EP. One hit wonders have always existed. I see what you're saying, but Taylor Swift's first single was released 9 years ago, Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" was released 8 years ago, Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez had their starts on Disney Channel a long while ago. What I mean by "no more popstars" is that within the past year or two, no new pop stars have emerged, and the same popstars from 2009-2012 are still dominating the radio. Yeah, we have artists like Meghan Trainor, but fact is, she'll likely never perform in Madison Square Garden. Daya? Nope. Shawn Mendes? Nope. My point being, sure, a lot of hits are made by popstars but all these popstars haven't emerged recently and everything that has emerged recently is kind of a one-hit-wonder. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2016 21:33:34 GMT
Taylor Swift?? Katy Perry??? Selena Gomez??? Ariana Grande? ?? I mean i don't like all of their oeuvres but you can't deny they're genuine 'popstars' with more than one hit/ EP. One hit wonders have always existed. I see what you're saying, but Taylor Swift's first single was released 9 years ago, Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" was released 8 years ago, Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez had their starts on Disney Channel a long while ago. What I mean by "no more popstars" is that within the past year or two, no new pop stars have emerged, and the same popstars from 2009-2012 are still dominating the radio. Yeah, we have artists like Meghan Trainor, but fact is, she'll likely never perform in Madison Square Garden. Daya? Nope. Shawn Mendes? Nope. My point being, sure, a lot of hits are made by popstars but all these popstars haven't emerged recently and everything that has emerged recently is kind of a one-hit-wonder. I think this has more to do with the current state of music, market-wise, than with anything else. We are in an age where everyone can put their musical efforts on the internet, and, because of that, an immense numbers of musical acts appear every single day. It's difficult to emerge as a pop star nowadays than how it was, like you said, 9-8 years ago. |
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Post by -- on Mar 5, 2016 21:58:08 GMT
I see what you're saying, but Taylor Swift's first single was released 9 years ago, Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" was released 8 years ago, Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez had their starts on Disney Channel a long while ago. What I mean by "no more popstars" is that within the past year or two, no new pop stars have emerged, and the same popstars from 2009-2012 are still dominating the radio. Yeah, we have artists like Meghan Trainor, but fact is, she'll likely never perform in Madison Square Garden. Daya? Nope. Shawn Mendes? Nope. My point being, sure, a lot of hits are made by popstars but all these popstars haven't emerged recently and everything that has emerged recently is kind of a one-hit-wonder. I think this has more to do with the current state of music, market-wise, than with anything else. We are in an age where everyone can put their musical efforts on the internet, and, because of that, an immense numbers of musical acts appear every single day. It's difficult to emerge as a pop star nowadays than how it was, like you said, 9-8 years ago. I definitely feel like this is the real reason. I think now we have stuff like Soundcloud and Spotify where we can find all these artists so the attention goes else where and thus creating a hard time for companies to find out "whats popular" when everything is popular in its own sense because every type of music has its following and has this fanbase that is equal to mainstream acts. So now we have come accustomed to having different types of music and styles all around us 24/7 whereas just a few short years ago, you just loved the mainstream or had to be in the know. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2016 23:14:47 GMT
Have yall heard fatima al qadiris new album!!! It's amazing and will probably end up very high on my top albums list this year
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Post by popcorn on Mar 6, 2016 5:29:40 GMT
Loving Meghan Trainor's 'NO'.
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Post by -- on Mar 6, 2016 8:03:21 GMT
Have yall heard fatima al qadiris new album!!! It's amazing and will probably end up very high on my top albums list this year Her name is gorgeous I'll check her out |
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Post by -- on Mar 6, 2016 8:04:45 GMT
Loving Meghan Trainor's 'NO'. Meghan Trainor is from the same state as me and they play her ugly songs here all the time and like it's atrocious. I can't listen to her. She is just so mediocre it makes me wanna throw up. |
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Post by popcorn on Mar 6, 2016 8:23:24 GMT
Loving Meghan Trainor's 'NO'. Meghan Trainor is from the same state as me and they play her ugly songs here all the time and like it's atrocious. I can't listen to her. She is just so mediocre it makes me wanna throw up. Ok I can safely say that Title was a piece of trash but NO is a bop. |
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Post by Dvnots on Mar 8, 2016 14:26:54 GMT
I think the quality now is about the same as it was a couple of years ago. Look at the list of hits in 2011; there were as many duds then as now.
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Post by -- on Mar 8, 2016 14:41:26 GMT
I think the quality now is about the same as it was a couple of years ago. Look at the list of hits in 2011; there were as many duds then as now. The songs were better tbh. But I guess cause those songs were all party songs and just fun songs. Now everything is like about hard love and being mature. 2011 was so turnt like Britney, Katy, Kesha, Beyonce, Nicki, Rihanna, Selena, Demi all are killing it all at once. Even the males were killing it. All the songs were fun and just party songs. Now it's kinda boring. |
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Post by -- on Mar 8, 2016 15:03:04 GMT
Meghan Trainor is from the same state as me and they play her ugly songs here all the time and like it's atrocious. I can't listen to her. She is just so mediocre it makes me wanna throw up. Ok I can safely say that Title was a piece of trash but NO is a bop. I think that the song is ironic. She says she's not a feminist but then tries to incorporate feminism but then makes a video that is anti house wife. But like feminism is pro house wife and pro working gal. Like she doesn't know what she's talking about. And she's trying to promote this whole "no" message but like she should know that girls get killed in America for telling boys "no". Like, it's not easy. Like idk why she does what she does in order to seem like she's pushing boundaries but she's failing. Badly. |
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Post by Dvnots on Mar 8, 2016 15:05:06 GMT
I think the quality now is about the same as it was a couple of years ago. Look at the list of hits in 2011; there were as many duds then as now. The songs were better tbh. But I guess cause those songs were all party songs and just fun songs. Now everything is like about hard love and being mature. 2011 was so turnt like Britney, Katy, Kesha, Beyonce, Nicki, Rihanna, Selena, Demi all are killing it all at once. Even the males were killing it. Well, the only Demi song in the top 20 was Skyscraper and Selena didn't have any in the top 20. The percentage of the top 20 hits that were awful is about the same as the percentage this year. |
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Post by -- on Mar 8, 2016 15:18:18 GMT
The songs were better tbh. But I guess cause those songs were all party songs and just fun songs. Now everything is like about hard love and being mature. 2011 was so turnt like Britney, Katy, Kesha, Beyonce, Nicki, Rihanna, Selena, Demi all are killing it all at once. Even the males were killing it. Well, the only Demi song in the top 20 was Skyscraper and Selena didn't have any in the top 20. The percentage of the top 20 hits that were awful is about the same as the percentage this year. Omfg the memories. 90% of those songs were bops. I'm surprised Selena Gonez & The Scene weren't on there. They really played Love You Like A Love Song all the time. That was the year of Joe Jonas' album too. 2011 was so lit omg. Omg I remember the VMA's that year was the last interesting VMA's. 2011 music was way better than this past few years. 2014 was okay. 2015 was boring. This year so far has been big for certain artists. 2011 by far had better songs than the past few years. 2013 didn't happen. 2013 was when they started pulling old songs that were charting already in Europe and made them chart in America. I can say there have been good pop albums but they don't pick the best songs from the albums to be singles. They choose random songs now. |
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?? I mean i don't like all of their oeuvres but you can't deny they're genuine 'popstars' with more than one hit/ EP. One hit wonders have always existed.
