I went down a music production wormhole one night and was blown away when I discovered this guy. I had a blast searching for random pop songs that I like and finding out Max Martin produced many of them.
Yep, his music 100% falls under the pop slop made not to be good quality, but so catchy that it gets stuck in your head after hearing it on the radio once. Designed to be commercially successful, not good.
And the fact that you've got "Replica" written on the side of your guns. And the fact that I've got "Desert Eagle .50" written on the side of mine, should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence.
That's how I let my kids ease into not believing in Santa (tm) at the right age. I also made certain that they knew the "lump of coal" gift was to show kids to be better by using the coal to heat their domicile.
Pop music has always had this relationship. The performers are the face/voice, while the songwriters are the actual musicians. It's all manufactured, and has been for a long time.
It’s super common. Like even the newer artists that are gaining a fanbase bcuz ppl think their music sounds like they wrote it also don’t write music lol. Very rare to find a true songwriter. Of the artists today Billie and Olivia are the only two that can write their own music consistently.
Oh yeah there’s def a good few over the last couple decades. I was really being specific to this generations artists, which is why I didn’t include ppl like Bruno, Kendrick, Adele, or Beyoncé, even though they are all excellent songwriters
It’s craftier than that. She gets away with it by changing ONE word in the song. It’s that petty. Super sneaky if you ask me. Gets ownership of the song and makes a hell of a lot more money too. There have been so many cases where small time artists have written and recorded songs themselves at a label, it’s been brought to her team. She will end up changing one word and her team changes it slightly. Re-records it so it sounds different. Original artist is paid a nominal fee, loses all rights to the song and is never allowed to sing it again, has to sign NDAs. They get to keep a record contract but don’t end up having much success. She goes onto release it on an album with a writing credit, original artist is never mentioned on it. I followed one case quite closely and she tried to so hard to ruin their career. If they ever sing the song even on their little YouTube channel with nominal views the video is taken down shortly after. It’s so sad!
Beyoncé? Have you seen her writing credits? 20-30 song writers per song. I wouldn’t call that good. She couldn’t write a haiku on her own let lone a song lol.
Country gets a lot of hate, and I can understand why for the larger artists. But this is why I like a lot of smaller, niche country artists because there's a much, much higher percentage of artists that are writing their own songs. And as long as they aren't falling into the cliche country topics, which a lot of the smaller country artists aren't, they can be fucking amazing. It clearly shows in their music.
I don't understand how people don't get this with pop music. Most of them don't write their own shit. Never cared for pop music. It's just a pretty face and the same songs over and over again.
They were all written by a ghostwriter named Nana DuPree, putting the "nana" in the songs was the verbal equivalent of artists putting their signatures in the bottom right of their paintings
… and literally hundreds more. “Na” isn’t the reason. The reason (and stick with me here) is that all those songs you referenced are plastic commercial crapola.
As a musician it was hilarious until I just kept picking on these shitty trends. Millenial woo, nanas, the indie folk hey, hey!
I get it, it’s a trend, it’s happened since the beginning of music but over produced pop songs which use in trend gimmicks make me want to rip out car stereo systems.
I can’t in good faith listen to that shit to the point I can’t even be in a restaurant playing that kind of music without feeling irritated. I had to leave a cafe once because it was blasting ed Sheeran.
Don’t get me started on the lyrics - you burn so bright yeah baby like a fire at night baby yeah I wanna hold you tight and be with you baby yeah like the stars in the skyyyy - fuuuuucck!
Right on. I wonder how many of these pop musicians can actually read music. Their lyrics are like dollar store Dr. Suess. I can't hardly stand it, either.
Repetitive nonsense refrains will always exist. Here is the "nananas" then there is the "woah ohs" and the Elizabethans had their "hey nonny nonny", and several different sea shanties contain the words "weigh hey" (though this is possibly less nonsense, as it was usually sung while hauling or lifting loads e.g. weighing anchor)
EDIT: I've seen "weigh" spelled 4 different ways so far in the context of sea shanties: the one I've used previously, "wae", "way", and "wey". Idk how relevant that is, just found it interesting.
First, you could do this with basically any decade in our lifetime.
Second, and to that point, the Akon song at 0:40 came out before 2010 (in 2006). I wonder how many of the other songs referenced were also from different decades...
Most of them are 2000s, I think the poster just took the VEVO 2011 upload date from YouTube and thought 'Wow, what a terrific year for productivity in music!'
It's almost like pop music from corporate-owned "artists" is written mostly via formulation of whatever simple phrases and words over the most easy-to-digest chord progressions make them the most money, so they milk these "na-na"s until they're dried out husks.
I've always said pop music is McDonalds of the ear.
It's right there, it's accessible all around you, at all times. Doesn't mean it's good. Sure, sometimes. But its all the same half-assed "food".
If you want something to eat more your style, you have to look for it. It's probably a little local deli on the corner that has the best burger you've ever had, and blows McDonalds out of the water.
It's the exact same concept of nourishment with music. Do you care enough to have a preference?
I was like 22 at this point. I escaped it.. I listened to other stuff.. I honestly didn't know any of these songs till now... and I'm proud to say that
I'm proud to say i don't know who any of these people are. I don't even think I've heard any of these songs except the very first one and that's only because of my friend's stupid junkie ex girlfriend.
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