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 grew up listening to "classical music". You know ... written by people who have been dead for a few hundred years, and first performed by people who have been dead for a few hundred years. Musicians perform music. The music, and the performance, stand on their own merits or fall on their own lack thereof. Who cares who performed it first? The term "cover (version)" is retarded.
Think of the song "Ghost Riders in the Sky". Think of your favorite performance of it. Get that fixed in your mind.
Now ask me who was first to publish a recording of it ...
Isn't that the truth! I never listened to a lot of James Brown until I went to the Winter Carnival in Quebec City in 2005 or 2006, and the ad nauseam song was "Living in America" and I got completely hooked! (I readily admit I can't listen to some of his stuff!)
And of course, there is Eddie Murphy's (when he was funny) James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub Party...hilarious parody!!
Labor AND leisure are Gifts from God. I consider myself blessed that I can come to one place for both.
Can’t argue with you. I just figured someone would dish it out to me that don’t I even know that S&G did that song first, proving them right that there was no good music after 1990 or whatever.
You can get a lot here. More than music dissing and Supreme Court Justice dissing. You can get almost anything on FR.
Except fries, apparently. It never comes with a nice order of piping hot French fries.
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It's a very strange performance, IMO.
I love yacht rock on XM for that reason.
At least each of those "classic rock" screams is unique and not following some Autotune-friendly tonal pattern. Plus, there are some examples on the classic rock list that are not really gratuitous screams, such as Brad Delp's high note in More Than a Feeling. Brad possessed a wide vocal range, and he hit those notes and held them. There are similar examples from other '60s-'80s singers with powerful voices (Linda Ronstadt and Pat Benatar come to mind).
In fact, that's one big point: the "Millennial Whoop" does not require a powerful voice, or even good pitch. All will be sifted through the digital filters anyway.
I kind of miss the performers who had wobbly, gravelly or nasal voices, at least they had character that made them distinct. Today, I'm hard pressed to distinguish one pop star from another - and it's not my ears that are the problem.
Have you listened to anything else from “Disturbed”?
Years ago in church the little kids “sang” a rap song about Jesus. I mentioned to a much older gal that I didn’t care for rap.
“Oh - the parent’s never have liked the kid’s music. Even mine!”
“What did your folks not like about yours?”
“Ours was ‘Big Band’. My parents were orchestra. They thought anything that had horns in it was the Devil’s music!”
Sounds like the theme song to Agents of Shield.
When The Beatles became popular here in 1964, suddenly the radio was full of sound-alike bands. Very few of them made it really big but that "yeah-yeah-yeah" sound was everywhere for a while.
Nirvana had the same effect in the early 1990s. Suddenly everybody was wearing flannel shirts and mumbling/screaming incoherent lyrics behind a wall of guitar feedback (I liked it!)
A lot of pop songs in the 1980s had synthesizers. Even Van Halen started using them.
That is all true, and good to keep in mind...the simple generational dynamics of it.
And there was a lot of mutual music dislike, too! Parents disliked the kid’s music, and the kids detested their parent’s music!
What I find generally unsettling is the fondness that many young people seem to feel for Sixties and Seventies music...I somehow feel it is abnormal for the young people to like that music.
It makes me think that there IS something wrong with music today (not just my codgeriness about young folks music!) and it makes me curious to think if there is going to be some kind of original and unusual music wave that gives them their own music...that they have been missing.
You have to go to the internet or satellite radio, I guess, for real country music.
If you listen to our local stations for an hour you've heard everything you're going to hear the rest of the day.
I went to see Thomas Dolby way back (He is,and has been for some time a complete, Leftist douchebag) but in his performance in a small forum, he played a trombone on his keyboard, and did it so well it astonished me. I simply couldn't believe that sound could be reproduced so strongly and enjoyably with a keyboard and control stick!
One of my favorite songs from the Eighties was Wall of Voodoo: Mexican Radio!
It was so weirdly unique I loved it...
George Jones asked the musical question, "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?"
And we don't like the answer.
That’s the problem with software driving the industry. Once they codified how to make a hit song everything gets dumped through the software.
Nah, new music is great. You just gotta go find it. Gary Clark Jr.
They probably wobble side to side while holding up lighters and saying “Wow, that’s really deep” too.
“It speaks to my soul, man.”
*facepalm*
Yeah, it’s rather disheartening.
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