US Pop. 00's

drilla

Well-known member
I am doing this anyway so I might as well share it with you folks.

The same as all that 80's RNB stuff appears to me now, I think in 20 years a lot of these will be interesting. This is made by simply taking my local hip hop/rnb/pop station's playlist (which hasn't updated since April 14 according to their website) and youtubing the list. I'm not excluding anything; for as long as it lasts, this is a document of what is, not just what I like.

Tropes: '08 is pretty ravey. Pretty emo, lyrically. Lots of guitars, acoustic as much or more than electric. Lots of 4x4 electro and house beats, but plodding and high passed.

1. 2 Pistols - She Got It.
Beat sounds like something from an RPG soundtrack. Dig the white top hat...

2. Ashanti – The Way That I Love You.


3. Busta Rhymes - Don't Touch Me.


4. Cherish - Killa.
5. Chris Brown - With You.
6. Colby O'Donis - What You Got ft. Akon.


T-Pain and Akon have seriously affected the course of US pop in the past 2

years. I should have seen it coming but I thought they would last a few

months at best. This track and the look of the singer reminds me of an

updated version of freestyle. Noel's nephew. I bet freestyle would have

lasted longer if it had Autotune.

7. C-Side - Boyfriend/Girlfriend.


8. Danity kane - Damaged.
9. Day26 - Got Me Going.
10. DJ Felli Fel - Finer Things.


11. Flo Rida - Elevator. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Owrgg2o5xw

12. Flo Rida - Low. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDAaevTq51I

13. Jordin Sparks ft. Chris brown - No Air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icv6DgZ-9O4

14. Kardinal Offishall - Dangerous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFeaqB-AAMo

15. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ctIC65PV0

More gabba kicks in pop music please. This is kind of Prince-y.

16. Lil Wayne - Lollipop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=740d8sTpM7U

17. Lil Mama - Shawty Get Loose. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hXKRilPNpc

18. Lloyd - How We Do It. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR-SslHjt4I

19. Madonna - 4 Minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfUjfioAnKY

20. Mariah Carey - Touch My Body.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzxR8OH-fDQ

21. Mario - Crying Out For Me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=026GaGDOwqM

22. Nelly - Party People. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlH26oqVRsI

23. Neyo - Closer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUTh3OJjWjM

24. Plies - Bust It Baby Part 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP4_oIEmeBI

25. Qwote - Don't Wanna Fight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu5ASSdFJCc

26. Ray J - Sexy Can I. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeVOnHce37Y

27. Rick Ross - The Boss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTOEV6f7jB4

This beat is amazing. Blown out speaker kicks, yard sale hi hats, wu tang

forever choirs, mid range synth sludge.

28. Riskay - Smell That Chick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuc5RH__AD8

The uncensored incarnation of this gets stuck in my head at work all the

time.

29. Sean Kingston - There's Nothin'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaFqwEH-C6M

30. Shawty Lo - Dey Know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhbxW2RdUE

31. Snoop Dogg ft. Mista FAB & Too Short - Life of Da Party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HS0g-vVdP8

32. Teyana Taylor - Google Me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMfy_2VLe1c

33. The DEY - Give You The World.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwiRbyGeWc

34. The-Dream - Falsetto. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_jyrbofQqs

35. Usher - Love In This Club. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqqY07OZWps

36. Webbie - Independent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT1XrPmJ0XQ

37. Wiz Khalifa - Say Yeah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXATLjmAKHE
 

DJ PIMP

Well-known member
Its the 20 year cycle isn't it?

I really like Flo Rida - In The Ayer. Reminds me of Planet Rock with the electro style beat, disco pings, that high synth part. Uses my all-time favourite hi-hat pattern.


The synth melody in the breakdown towards the end has that queasy detuned reese feel ala belgium/gabber.
 
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robin

Well-known member
nice one,loads of stuff to get through,i've only heard about half of that.
i'll try and add some more myself too
 

Chris

fractured oscillations
WTF I turn my back on Crunk and RnB for a bit and it mutates into Tranc-E-lectro-style overnight.

Freestyle-Trance = PopFuturism reaching it's absolute, fluffiest pinnacle. Now just add Hot Teenage White Girl and it'll be about that time for the next Cobain/Morrisey Martyr Figure to save us. Winkwink of course, Freestyle-Trance is a great idea!
 
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Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
WTF I turn my back on Crunk and RnB for a bit and it mutates into Tranc-E-lectro-style overnight.

Freestyle-Trance = PopFuturism reaching it's absolute, fluffiest pinnacle. Now just add Hot Teenage White Girl and it'll be about that time for the next Cobain/Morrisey Martyr Figure to save us. Winkwink of course, Freestyle-Trance is a great idea!

You can say that again. I had a feeling this was going to happen when all that Justin Timbaland shit went down with a swift uppercut from Cassie's "Me and U" but I didn't realize it was going to be to the extent of the producer of every backwashed, upstart teenage reader of Randy Jackson's "What's Up Dawg?" thinking that all they have to do to make a quick buck out of the snotfaces is to put them on karaoke versions of Armand Van Buuren tracks.

It almost makes me hate a sound I was getting really excited about, especially now that whole Hyphy thing more or less collapsed and isn't putting out really good examples of this shit to lay waste to all the toe-wetters.

This is still heavy though, any way you slice it:

EDIT: Well, uh, that was supposed to be B.O.B.'s "Haterz Everywhere" but apparently in the music video he replaced Wes Fif's verse with Rich Boy. That's not the wind, that's me sighing.

Here's the audio for the original:
 
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Chris

fractured oscillations
...I didn't realize it was going to be to the extent of the producer of every backwashed, upstart teenage reader of Randy Jackson's "What's Up Dawg?" thinking that all they have to do to make a quick buck out of the snotfaces is to put them on karaoke versions of Armand Van Buuren tracks.

Haha, yeah, tho I have to admit that Lloyd's Schaffel track is a cute twist. Aiming for that crucial Berlin demographic.
 

luka

Well-known member
rick ross's rick ross chain is the best piece of jewleery ive seen in my life.
 

mos dan

fact music
You can say that again. I had a feeling this was going to happen when all that Justin Timbaland shit went down with a swift uppercut from Cassie's "Me and U" but I didn't realize it was going to be to the extent of the producer of every backwashed, upstart teenage reader of Randy Jackson's "What's Up Dawg?" thinking that all they have to do to make a quick buck out of the snotfaces is to put them on karaoke versions of Armand Van Buuren tracks.

ah but was it justin getting knocked back for the synth, swooshing electro pop revolution to take over? what about 'my love'?
that synth made me feel a whole different way about pop music the first time i heard it: specifically, really excited. i haven't had a 'top three' for a year as good as 'my love', 'me and u' and ruff sqwad's 'died in your arms' erm, ever. 2006, your time.

i would throw in amerie's 'crush' in while we're at it
feeling a lot of the tunes on drilla's list there.
 

swears

preppy-kei
I still separate "pop" and "rnb" in my head. Some part of my brain is still in '99 mode, thinking pop= Robbie Williams and Steps and that timba-flavoured RnB is still slightly outside of that, has more of an "edge" of blackness or innovation or whatever. Which I suppose it does, but it's my definition of "pop" has to change to catch up with that. I remember in another thread hailing Timberlake as the best pop star of the 00s, because I can't imagine a rapper or rnb singer as "pop".

Which is all a bit rockist I suppose, 'cuz all those "urban" musicians are proper auteurs and innovators whilst the white pop kids are just industry puppets, I mean obviously.
 

Poisonous Dart

Lone Swordsman
Oh man

So far 00's pop in the States is *this* close to turning me into a certified nutcase. Thank God for the internet and bloggerverse or I would've snapped about 6-8 years ago. The radio? Fuhgeddaboutit!

One.
 

Agent

dgaf ngaf cgaf
this thread title got me thinking: is this why our decade has no identity? because we don't know what to call ourselves? how do you translate the "00's" into words? and you can't call it the "new millennium", as others are wont to, because that would encompass the next 990 years :p
 

zhao

there are no accidents
what do people think of the new (original) donna summer album? does anyone care? do i?
 

UFO over easy

online mahjong
this thread title got me thinking: is this why our decade has no identity? because we don't know what to call ourselves? how do you translate the "00's" into words? and you can't call it the "new millennium", as others are wont to, because that would encompass the next 990 years :p

"it's the naughties m8 lolololol"
 

craner

Beast of Burden
I'm bumping this to the top because I want to listen to it. I'm not adding anything interesting. Maybe Nivea.
 
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