Posted on 07/03/2018 11:00:42 AM PDT by SamAdams76
I don't listen to too much pop music these days but when I do, almost every song has a certain element in it - which is being termed the "Millennial Whoop."
I guess I could try to be the sophisticated musician and describe to you transitions between the fifth and third notes of a major scale and what not but I won't even try. The Millennial Whoop is basically putting a lot of "Wa-oh, wa-oh's" in just about every hit song. But don't take my word for it. Listen to it in the links below:
Millennial Whoop Compilation 2
Pretty much every pop song these days has the same Millennial Whoop element in it.
It's creeping into country music as well (which has actually become the "pop music" of the heartland).
Here is a mash-up of recent country hits that share the same structure and if you listen closely, a few Millennial Whoops.
I remember the music of Thomas Dolby well. Another artist from that time that intrigued me was Gary Numan. “Are Friends Electric” was one of the most brilliant songs from that era.
Dolby wrote some very good music, I was so discouraged to find out he was such a political idiot, though I admit, I should have known as much from a couple of his songs...darn it.
Yes...Gary Numan! Loved “Cars”! His music was extremely recognizable!
I have a friend in the Nashville music business. He says all the orders now come from New York City.
True
I’m working up to that story! Right now, I’m trying to get them to understand how my mother let me go out to play without a cellphone or telling her exactly where I was going and who I was seeing.
Boston's debut album is a great case in point. It remains a top seller and with good reason (it's a pity Brad killed himself), but even there...that album was basically rejected by every label once or twice, with Epic initially saying it offered nothing new.
Thus, the cycle of life is renewed...each generation of elders find fault with the next generation's (insert point of criticism here...politics, fashion, music, art, you name it), with the elders saying "my generation did it better." I suspect symphonic music fans hated big band (and even within symphonic music there are lovers and haters of Mozart, Bach, and Stravinsky), I'm sure big band fans sniffed at jazz quartets, I know jazz and blues people detest rock people, and I know classic rock fans hated punkers (and visa versa), almost everyone hated 80s synth-rock bands, who hated hair metal who hated grunge and so on.
I'm not a fan of the "Whoop" and I doubt it'll stand the test of time like Daltrey's scream at the end of WGFA. Thus I think there is truth in these "Whoop" observations. I also know my Dad hated rock music and he was wrong(!) so I'm not yet willing to dump Adele and T-Swift just because they aren't Heart (Ariana Grande can go pound sand, though).
As I noted elsewhere, many contemporary harder/classic rock bands ARE doing some cool new things and, sadly, go unnoticed as old guys like me listen to The Band on iTunes repeatedly. Good new music is there for the taking.
The Golden Age of Wireless is a brilliant album.
Whatever happened to the good old “yeah yeah yeah”?
I have been noticing this for years because this stuff is the background muzak at work. It makes me wish that I had the ability to play guitar so I could do some straight up rock with heavy doses of the blues and some bebop to make things interesting. No autotune, no studio tricks, and no recording each part separately. And definitely no millennial whoops.
"NEW YORK CITY?!?!"
That's the only band I would pay good money to see these days. Phil Selway is an amazing drummer.
What’s the other song that they play right after the “this is how we roll” song, it sounds like just the music sans vocals of a Katy Perry song Fireworks or California Girls on Hannity’s radio show.
Shhh ... don't rouse the New York haters ...
People just talk that way to preserve the illusion that Nashville is something different than what it's really become.
You don't need secret orders coming from Tin Pan Alley or the Brill Building to make what young artists are more than willing to produce and young fans are eager to consume.
There wasn’t a lot of great music in the 80’s, but a bunch of it sure was fun!
Agreed. I would gladly fork over money to see them.
I’ve always admired Selway’s drumming. The way he plays uptempo, swing type beats while the rest of the band plays some, slow meandering piece sets them apart.
The Flat Earth is better.
And then there’s EDM....
“This is music!”
When Will the Bass Drop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8
And the reason for that is that internet music distribution and affordable quality home studios did what the courts, litigation and music fans could not.
It killed the power of corporate payola dead dead dead.
Music listening has now fragmented to a degree even greater than the live performance days before we had functional recording.
That you can no longer fill stadiums with huge crowds who want tomhear the same performance isn’t a bad thing at all.
And you like that? To me that is the whole reason I cant stand pop music. It’s so dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Listen to the video links in the OP, it’s obvious this is a “thing” and the idea it is should be insulting to everyone.
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