An interesting thing is how revivalism, especially of the 1980s, is prevalent in modern music. Many of the bands or artists that write songs that become either popular or carve a niche for themselves are inspired by musical styles that had their glory days in a previous era.
The Weeknd is here making heavily 80s inspired pop. Molchat Doma exploded in popularity by making post-punk that sounds exactly like something from 1982. Bruno Mars is making 70s, 80s and 90s inspired R&B (including a goddamn New Jack Swing song) and bands like Greta van Fleet are making 1970s boomer rock.
Someone who listens to more modern pop music/the musical charts than I do could probably list more examples.
Then again, it could simply be this decade's Shakin' Stevens (who made 1950s inspired music in the 1980s), but he never was more than a niche that somehow consistently got on the radio.
It’s not even subtle anymore, nothing new is actually being invented.
People have been complaining about this for millennia.
If you want "new music" figure out a way to do a song with the Blockchain. Past that, what are you complaining about, exactly? That nobody is inventing new physical hardware for making noises in the register the human ear finds appealing? That nobody is stringing a unique set of words together to express the idea of two people meeting each other, falling in love, fucking, growing apart, breaking up, feeling lonely, and then meeting new people again?
There is plenty of "new" music out there. Soundcloud and Bandcamp are rife with it. Some of it is even outside mainstream. You're not going to find it on the FM, but why the fuck would you ever go to an FM radio station for new music anyway?
Eh, not necessarily. Using the obvious example... ABBA.
Though I agree that these songs rarely chart outside of Europe. Though songs like Euphoria can be heard on Top40 radio across basically all of Europe to this day, most of the modern charts are still dominated by whatever is popular in the United States (TERF-Island used to be a powerhouse too, but its relevancy kinda died off in the mid 2000s).
Though tbh it's kind of a shame since there's a lot of good music in Eurovision, especially in the 90s and it's a really fun way to discover non-english songs and artists (well, until they lifted the "songs only in the country's official language" rule in 1998 or 1999 - which is also when they removed the orchestra)
literally the same it ever was. one of the most iconic songs of my youth in the 80s, soft cell's "tainted love," is a cover of a 60s r&b song and i didn't even know until like the 2010s
An interesting thing is how revivalism, especially of the 1980s, is prevalent in modern music. Many of the bands or artists that write songs that become either popular or carve a niche for themselves are inspired by musical styles that had their glory days in a previous era.
The Weeknd is here making heavily 80s inspired pop. Molchat Doma exploded in popularity by making post-punk that sounds exactly like something from 1982. Bruno Mars is making 70s, 80s and 90s inspired R&B (including a goddamn New Jack Swing song) and bands like Greta van Fleet are making 1970s boomer rock.
Someone who listens to more modern pop music/the musical charts than I do could probably list more examples.
Then again, it could simply be this decade's Shakin' Stevens (who made 1950s inspired music in the 1980s), but he never was more than a niche that somehow consistently got on the radio.
Dua Lipa called her new album last year "future nostalgia" and it's heavily influenced by older disco.
It's not even subtle anymore, nothing new is actually being invented. It all sounds similar
People have been complaining about this for millennia.
If you want "new music" figure out a way to do a song with the Blockchain. Past that, what are you complaining about, exactly? That nobody is inventing new physical hardware for making noises in the register the human ear finds appealing? That nobody is stringing a unique set of words together to express the idea of two people meeting each other, falling in love, fucking, growing apart, breaking up, feeling lonely, and then meeting new people again?
There is plenty of "new" music out there. Soundcloud and Bandcamp are rife with it. Some of it is even outside mainstream. You're not going to find it on the FM, but why the fuck would you ever go to an FM radio station for new music anyway?
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It's just getting so obvious now fully expecting some mainstream artist to call their new album "the greatest of the 90s" or something.
nu 90s. Thats the trick right? Just put nu in front of it
Yeah lmao
can't wait for nu-numetal
Or nu-new-wave
well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIvaeu6Oxzc
It not only won the Finnish qualifier for the competition, but got fourth place in the audience vote lmao
I feel like Eurovision shouldn't count because the songs usually chart in the countries they're from but don't have much staying power.
I mean, Flo Rida made an appearance in a Eurovision 2021 song, I thought he stopped existing in 2011.
El Diablo which was Cyprus sounded like a royalty-free version of Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.
A lot of the production/instrumentation on the more pop stuff feels like it wouldn't sound out of place in 2008 and idk how to put my finger on it.
Eh, not necessarily. Using the obvious example... ABBA.
Though I agree that these songs rarely chart outside of Europe. Though songs like Euphoria can be heard on Top40 radio across basically all of Europe to this day, most of the modern charts are still dominated by whatever is popular in the United States (TERF-Island used to be a powerhouse too, but its relevancy kinda died off in the mid 2000s).
Though tbh it's kind of a shame since there's a lot of good music in Eurovision, especially in the 90s and it's a really fun way to discover non-english songs and artists (well, until they lifted the "songs only in the country's official language" rule in 1998 or 1999 - which is also when they removed the orchestra)
literally the same it ever was. one of the most iconic songs of my youth in the 80s, soft cell's "tainted love," is a cover of a 60s r&b song and i didn't even know until like the 2010s
That's a cover though. Modern revivalism actually emulates the sound of past genres as well.
sha na na, the stray cats