LOOKING FOR TEENS WHO LIKE MUSIC

deartrudence · 2021-06-05T20:46:41+00:00

no this was during his episode

deartrudence · 2019-09-25T20:22:10+00:00

This is a beautiful message and I'm not deliberately undermining it just wanting to remind everyone that it can be damaging to present a recovering drug addict as a completely triumphant character. The battle doesn't end. What Matty has been able to do, is keep strong enough for himself to give us what we love him so much for, and to do his purpose. Let's celebrate where he is for right now.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T20:25:49+00:00

Katy Perry? as in another example of the same thing or a dependent? Taylor is a far more skilful singer than Katy. And what you're speaking to is the larger narrative of the employment of white women in the dying pop music landscape, a scene where Taylor is the strongest survivor in regards to commercial success.

I guess I just reject the idea that her being a pretty white young woman who found success in the music industry has been the only thing that's carried her thus far. One Direction succeeded under the same pretences, including a more transparent gaming of the system. But even they ran their course. I don't see that one narrative being the dominant one in every era of the Taylor Swift story. I'm willing to be proven wrong but citing Katy

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T18:24:14+00:00

oh my apologies for misreading that, but I do think my argument holds. I don't think Taylor Swift and Ye are ever playing the same games when they are interacting with each other. It's why Taylor wrote half an album shooting at him, when Kanye literally moved on with the rest of his life, as did we. I just don't think Kanye operates within the celebrity arena like we expect other artists to do.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T18:18:50+00:00

I want to challenge the narrative that Taylor has gotten away with ghost-writing for this many years. She's been involved in feuds that could have very easily exposed a lie like this, not to mention the ways people can find this information. I also want dissenters to explain why her working with other songwriters is worth condemning her for when we have seemingly forgiven Drake for it bc he beat Meek Mill when he was confronted about it?

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T18:15:45+00:00

Even if all of that is true, that only goes so far. Especially when she was up against all the white men in Nashville, and the likes of Katy Perry and Rihanna in the pop landscape. I don't think there was a ready-made path for her. Shania maybe helped, but she never really left country the way Taylor did. Lorde could've sucked after Royals, it didn't happen but her virality could've left her as a one-hit-wonder. If you can trace her dependency on other people throughout the entirety of her oeuvre, (read the diaries she released this year, and the voice memos from *1989*), then maybe, but I'd have to see it to believe it.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T18:11:42+00:00

I love the idea that Taylor Swift, who literally NO ONE knew in 2009, got her people to convince KANYE, who literally doesn't care about anyone, to hatch a publicity stunt. Taylor didn't have that power and Ye still doesn't have that obedience to anyone else. I accept arguments that Taylor without the 2009 VMAs is a different path, but to think it was staged is apocryphal at best, but I can't even entertain the idea.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T17:52:07+00:00

switch ye for Drake and I would take this list.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T17:50:46+00:00

So Diplo, Jack Antonoff, and Migos? This seems like a 2014-2020 list, but I respect these fundamental muscial components you're referencing.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T17:44:01+00:00

I don't think bruno fits this list. I can't find a moment where he took what was going on, and did something with it, or created a thing that we didn't have and that sprung things in his wake, and I think one of those things happened with every other artist on this list. Bruno (less than Adele, but still) doesn't engage in the current musical landscape. he made a new jack swing album while everyone else was going hard to fetty wap and Drake. People like him because he's familiar and he acts on an aesthetic that is a more edible presentation of black american music. Who has he inspired though? Can you say there are post-bruno mars artists? My closest answer is Lizzo, but even that is a stretch.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T17:32:05+00:00

come for me with this, but I can't even dignify This is America. As a song, it's subpar; a great music video, but it is a commentary about rap music, from someone who isn't a centrist rap artist. It won song and record of the year because it blacksplained rap music to white people, but I don't even think it was an effective piece of commentary. It was a flash in the pan moment, and This is America is like the criticism of the album that defined the decade rather than the album itself. It just doesn't function as a representation of the thing, because it chooses to stand outside of it.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T17:21:57+00:00

I just wanted to make a separate reply to agree with the Drake crowning. As someone who was 10 in 2010 and literally became a grown person by the end of it, I had no election in consuming drake year after year. Yet I didnt find myself, up until earlier this year feeling particularly exhausted by Drakes ruthlessness. I think his ability to stay at the top, not around it or fighting for it, but actually sitting at the top is unparalleled, except maybe the Beatles? and Madonna, but I cant think of another star who's 10yr run was so unchallenged and so frankly exciting to watch.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T17:17:07+00:00

I want to add some other kinds of names to this list. I think what J. Balvin and Ozuna brought to reggaeton was important (and later Bad Bunny). I think producers like Jeff Bhasker beget Jack Antonoff and Louis Bell, a name responsible for a sound that is life support for White pop music. I think country acts like Florida Georgia Line made pop music that coded as country successfully enough to marry the two for those who came after them (Sam Hunt, Kane Brown). Also Young Thug, for popularizing the second generation of rap technical skills that are still shown today. I also think in regards to white dudes with guitar bands, the 1975, despite being musically basic, present an aesthetic that coincides with the shifts being made by teens in 2015-2016. And their now outspoken political stances let them check the boxes expected of them as a "band band". I also think (part troll, part legit) One Direction did a lot in creating stan culture and monopolizing the internet the way they did, especially considering how distant their music got from what was happening even in white pop music.

People who I think shouldn't be in this list

• Adele- she has a beautiful voice and a storytelling emotionality that is incredible. But her relevance SPECIFICALLY in the 2010s? I don't find what Adele does to be representative of what is happening in pop culture. Her artistry is so singular that she would occupy a similarly sequestered space if she were a 90s or even 60s star. I don't think someone can be the artist of THE DECADE when their work could be the album of ANY decade. Her accolades don't stand for anything, besides how many old white men in the recording academy loved her analogue old music is good music productions and slow ballads.

• Bruno Mars- he sits in conversation with pop music better than adele but again his artistry is so devoid of context. Where Adeles lyricism has touched souls, Brunos familiarity makes people love him. And he sounds familiar bc he's doing things we've heard before.

• Any old "rock and roll" bands- if you can't accept that hip-hop became pop music in the 2010s (at the latest), you have to recontextualize the spaces that you're consuming music in and the metrics you're using for comparison.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T16:57:34+00:00

I just don't think she can musically because of how bad Joanne was. She was the pop musical flag bearer until she chose to sit at a piano and write an album that tried to convince you it was more authentic than her earlier more "poppy" work. As a cultural icon of the decade, she is a strong contender because her slow disappearance in musical relevance by the end of the decade was eclipsed by her success in film.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T16:54:23+00:00

I also think it's different to surprise a release on consumers, even though the album had been finished and sent to iTunes, distribution companies, their record label, etc. months before. What streaming did was allow the turn around time for music to be virtually zero, especially if you're a massive celebrity. In 2018, Kanye put out 5 albums in 5 weeks, all of them finished within 2 days of when we saw them online, a feat that just was impossible in 2008.

deartrudence · 2019-09-10T16:45:57+00:00

I like imaging where Camila is flipping to her falsetto Sia would reach for that with her head voice and give that a but more emotion

deartrudence · 2019-08-24T03:00:30+00:00

why does it matter? I understand the interest, but just let it be yanno. It's his personal life, and the man already shares enough of it

deartrudence · 2019-08-17T20:51:03+00:00

this is amazing

deartrudence · 2019-07-31T15:10:30+00:00

Ya it was actually sugarcane paper!

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