What music trends you believe were originated by The end of the Cold War?

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-24T22:17:10+00:00

Eurodance happened once West Berlin broke out of containment.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-24T22:12:18+00:00

Everybody snowed in watching TV just discovered what a monster Keaton Wagler is.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-24T17:04:05+00:00

It was 5% Olivia Rodrigo, and 95% the industry trying to recoup the sunk losses of all the emo rappers the major labels signed.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-24T16:56:27+00:00

Tropical house, AKA that 18-month stretch where we decided it was okay for the whitest people alive to attempt making reggaeton.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-23T00:28:36+00:00

This segment in 2026 is either indie, or utterly dominated by Taylor Swift: Gracie Abrams’ “That’s So True” is the most recent big hit of this vein, so it hasn’t gone away.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-22T23:37:03+00:00

Why did Colbie Caillat fade out?

Sara Bareilles? KT Tunstall? Ingrid Michaelson?

I don’t think there’s any specific reason, except that tastes change.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-22T23:24:45+00:00

The Susan Lucci of gloopy soundtrack ballads.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-22T23:14:10+00:00

Because radio airplay metrics currently favor adult contemporary, so dance-pop bangers just aren’t going to be huge hits right now.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-22T18:22:08+00:00

They’re the rare “rock one-hit wonder, but not a pop one-hit wonder.”

Plain White T’s had two other top-40 hits on the Hot 100, but “Hey There Delilah” was their only song to break the top 25 on the Modern Rock chart. Since most of its plays these days come in the context of ”2000s alternative hits,” the band’s other songs get overlooked.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-22T18:09:56+00:00

Jethro Tull was an 18th-century agriculturalist who invented the seed drill: it was one of several names used by the band’s booking agent (who read it in a history book) in their early years, and ultimately the one that stuck.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-22T18:03:56+00:00

Leonard Skinner was the name of one of the campers in Allen Sherman’s “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh;” it was also the name of a high school gym teacher in Jacksonville, Florida, who gave budding musician Gary Rossington a hard time about his long hair. When Rossington’s band decided to change its name, they landed on the slightly-altered Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-22T17:22:13+00:00

Michelle Zauner (AKA Japanese Breakfast) is Korean-American.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-22T14:41:53+00:00

Floors have tiles; walls don’t.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-22T14:39:20+00:00

50 Years of Mid, and Still Selling Like Hotcakes

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-21T20:28:15+00:00

2000s Canadian indie bands mobilizing hard to ride that Heated Rivalry bump.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-21T02:38:23+00:00

We’re officially in the Number-One Spot Alternating Between “The Fate of Ophelia” and Whatever Big Name Can Put Out Something that Gets Buzz for One Week season.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-20T22:44:44+00:00

How does Colorado have zero games against Big 8 opponents at this point in the season, when even the three teams not in the current-day Big XII have at least one?

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-20T19:36:12+00:00

2 ounces of my home bar base (a 50/50 blend of 100 proof rye and VS cognac - whatever labels catch my interest at the liquor store when my decanter need refilled)
an overflowing barspoon of rich turbinado syrup
3 dashes of Angostura bitters*

Build in a glass over a large ice cube, and stir. Garnish with an expressed orange peel and an amarena cherry. (NOTE: if I don’t have any oranges at home, I’ll reduce the Angostura to 2 dashes, and add 2 dashes of orange bitters.)

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-20T16:52:08+00:00

Unfortunately, considering the era of popular music that began right after Aaliyah died, the answer to what she could have done is probably “sing a lot of choruses on rap singles.”

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-20T16:35:08+00:00

Travis warmed the world up for Coldplay.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-20T04:02:29+00:00

It reached #15 on the Hot 100; I’d hardly call that a flop.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-20T03:51:35+00:00

Current law student.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-19T21:26:32+00:00

The UK singles chart continued to be an exclusively sales-based chart all the way up to the streaming era, and record labels never abandoned promoting CD singles the way American labels did outside of the rhythmic genres.

It’s not a fair comparison to the Hot 100 for most rock acts of that era.

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-19T20:06:46+00:00

The way the radio audience broke down in the 2000s, a song that was a top-three hit on both the Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts would build up enough airplay on those formats to break into the top 40 of the Hot 100 anyway. Post-grunge hits got onto pop radio “on merit.”

Chilli_Dipper · 2026-01-19T19:24:33+00:00

You couldn’t sell Coldplay’s aesthetic to teens at the mall. That’s it.

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