The Pop Music Thread
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- Bennn4
Sia is my favorite, she has an amazing voice
- Lady Gaga's ugly step sister.utopian
- She rocks.monospaced
- totallyBennn
- pipesKrassy
- her best vocals: https://www.youtube.…Krassy
- Saw her live a few years ago. So good.sea_sea
- i miss her the last time she came in my city. and she doesnt seems to make a lot of showsBennn
- brt443
- woodutopian
- One of my favorite songs & videos...skwiotsmith
- Ramanisky20
- whats that sample again?Bennn
- http://youtube.com/w…Ramanisky2
- aaah yes, it isBennn
- face_melter1
I have been quite taken with the Hayley Williams album depsite having listened to absolutely nothing at all from Paramore.
Also HMLTD. While not outright pop, their album is an absolute bop with bright, sharp, production and choruses that you can scream along to. Easily one of my favourite records from this year.
- Hayley's good. Paramore was shit. This is better doing her own thing. She have a new album, check it outBennn
- Ramanisky21
Old school
- Live, nice. They were great - Walking Zero, Spin Spin Sugar and Velvet Divorce were also the heatprophetone
- + Post Modern Sleaze (Underdog Mix)prophetone
- Bennn1
Dont know much about Allie X, but I stumbled on her album Super Sunset, wich she reamade completely analog, i found this idea to be cool. I'm just 2 songs in and it sounds really good. I'll be curious to compare it with the "normal" digital version.
- < first vid is the analog version of the 2nd vid ...Bennn
- Ramanisky22
I dig this one too.
- Ramanisky22
Here you go Benn, one of my faves.
- Bennn2
I forgot about Lykke Li, i could post many tracks, she's one of my favorite. Her last album is bad tho, she changed her style and direction. Her 3 first albums are great. Particularly #2 and #3
- srhadden-2
That fucking Alessia Cara shit, just blatantly sampling one of Portishead's greatest tracks and just throwing her contemporary fucking nagging whining over it. That's just rape. And still that's probably the best track posted here, just because it has the awesome Portishead instrumentals underneath. All this shit is FUCKED
- Robyn, Sia and Carly Rae Jepsen all compose their own songs and are def talented. If you listen closely its as artistically valueable than any other genre.Bennn
- The lyrics are often (not always) very empty in pop tho. But that doesnt affect me much since english is not my first languge.Bennn
- Yeah but that’s not a Portishead original track ... the original is Isaac Hayes. https://m.youtube.co…Ramanisky2
- ok Rama, but they def used the Portishead edit (which is simply ten times doper) just to baffle youngsters with the beat before they find out it already existssrhadden
- can you imagine trying to manifest yourself as an artist, and just take Portishead's beat and add some shitty vocals over it?srhadden
- And then a label would think "oh that's a really fresh take on a classic beat, let me invest some money to make a nice video for this and promote it"srhadden
- No, that's not how it goes. The record company just owns the beat, finds some hungry teenager to declare some bullshit over a beat she probs never heard beforesrhadden
- they give her the lyrics and the depressed contemporary melody, she gets paid zilch, and the record company owns all the new rights over this "new song"srhadden
- and that's how all this shit is made. sometimes they use an old beat, sometimes a new one. but they always stick to the formula that works at the moment.srhadden
- right now clearly this formula contains "whiny depressed complainy vibes". they find some shill and let him or her whine for peanuts in exchange for "fame"srhadden
- and that's all perfectly well and good and legal actuallysrhadden
- I guess I just don't like whiny complainy vibes in my musicsrhadden
- And I just don't understand why this shit actually gets popularsrhadden
- END OF INTERVIEWsrhadden
- I clicked the vid expecting to be outraged, but she's just sampled a bit and gone her own route? Seems fairly harmless...Nairn
- ...and I'm someone who still has Portishead - on CD no less - on weekly rotation :)Nairn