other_life
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some optimistic read where hip hop has escaped the demands rockism puts on music/what it expects music to demand of it. i don't buy it but i'm forwarding it here anyway lol
Is Rap in a flop era?
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other_life
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oh the simz album was great, feel bad for not mentioning it
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I don't listen to much anymore disclaimer
There's a lot of decent stuff out there I'm sure but I rarely hear anything that surprises or excites me
I don't know how much of that is down to me just getting burned out on the genre from overexposure
Like there's a load of songs I loved when I was really into the genre 4-5 years ago (or more?) that now just seem decent to me, not essential
The only stuff that has excited me is the new York drill (meets new jersey club) which again you really have to immerse yourself in to not be put off by all the screaming
There's a lot of decent stuff out there I'm sure but I rarely hear anything that surprises or excites me
I don't know how much of that is down to me just getting burned out on the genre from overexposure
Like there's a load of songs I loved when I was really into the genre 4-5 years ago (or more?) that now just seem decent to me, not essential
The only stuff that has excited me is the new York drill (meets new jersey club) which again you really have to immerse yourself in to not be put off by all the screaming
other_life
bioconfused
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what if drill and bmore breaks somehow Merged and that meant american breakbeat producers had an In for on trend rap production
what if drill and bmore breaks somehow Merged and that meant american breakbeat producers had an In for on trend rap production
Country's what's in now. Beyonce just released a country album, Lana Del Rey's releasing one, Rihanna's just done a cowgirl shoot for one of the fashion mags, Post Malone's doing music with Luke Combs.
Some people think it's part of a broader shift away from black culture in America as a second Trump term looms, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, big-boobed Sydney Sweeney becomes the new It Girl, Kylie Jenner leaves Travis Scott for Timothee Chalamet and Kanye becomes a neo-Nazi and starts wearing Burzum gear. You could probably find a load of examples to counter that claim, mind you.
Some people think it's part of a broader shift away from black culture in America as a second Trump term looms, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, big-boobed Sydney Sweeney becomes the new It Girl, Kylie Jenner leaves Travis Scott for Timothee Chalamet and Kanye becomes a neo-Nazi and starts wearing Burzum gear. You could probably find a load of examples to counter that claim, mind you.
pattycakes_
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Yeah but all that shit that that lot at that level do is a quick flash in the pan and then they move on. Like Bey was all about house for 5mins... It's whatever. Everythings basically dead at this point.
If you follow the fashion and celebrity blogs, people have been calling out Ariana Grande for changing her accent and ethnicity based on trends.
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pattycakes_
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Meh. Top level celeb stuff has gotten so fucking boring. We went from having people with personalities to this Disneyfied shit.
Haven't kept up with rap since mid 2022, but what is the bart man saying?
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
Idk, it all just blurs into one blob
pattycakes_
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Exactly. The process has been taken far enough that you've got a pop star changing their ethnicity the same way they change musical style. Everything reduced to fashion and media cycles.
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
The world used to produce people like Lou Reed and Harry Dean Stanton. Now we have Pete Davidson and Post Malone.
isn't this just the format for all popularly consumed music nowadays?
The bourgeois bohemian would gnash their teath and scream into the existential void about the loss of the vitality of youth culture, but I think it's something more fundamental, that we move at a pace where trends struggle to inhere.
It's what I was saying about jungle in the other thread. Things moved so fast in the 90s because people moved slower. Today, we're moving fast, we can get any record from cambodia or wherever, and popular culture will evolve at a snails pace, precisely because nothing can become *the consensus.*
To be able to do that, you need social spaces, youth clubs, community centres, even nightclubs (as much as it pains me to say that.) The virtual cannot replace real interaction. What happens now is that virtual space is socialised and centralised, whereas communal space has undergone a decentralisation to appeal to the whims of petit-bourgeois malcontents and property developers. FUCK SMALL BUSINESSES!
Forget the gentrification of culture, your breathing is gentrified, fam.
wild greens
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As the comments say he put his customers in the video
wild greens
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Everything is boring now i guess