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Post well known tunes into the megathread. Post fresh vibes individually.
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I'll go one further, mainstream pop and the top streamed music right now - literally the most mainstream of the mainstream - goes hard. looking at Spotify top charts for the week, I'm seeing BIRDS OF A FEATHER by Billie Eilish and Taste by Sabrina Carpenter, which are two very good high-production mainstream pop songs. better than I ever remember pop being in the rest of my life. brat came out this summer. Tyler the Creator just dropped CHROMAKOPIA. and slightly off mainstream but still very popular were Camila Cabello, Remi Wolf, Magdalena Bay, honestly this is like the best I imagine pop music has been in decades. what's the issue?
Nelly Furtado prod. by timbaland > every single pop artist active right now combined
Or even just look at hip hop. There was a ridiculous amount of popular hip hop in the 80s that was just bad, but the genre got polished and now there's a ridiculous amount of good stuff. You'll see people complain about the quality of the really popular stuff, but there's so many up and comers that are putting out awesome stuff. It's like any other art form. Each generation builds on the previous. Taking the stuff the previous generation took a lifetime to master and learning the ins and outs in a few years. Making them able to master it in a way the previous generation could only guess at.
Right? Music feels pretty fresh right now, from a mainstream and indie perspective.