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Totally. As a musician we do this all of the time. Just last week a group of friends and I were chuckling at a very specific flavor of folksy pop that dominated
by Slow_Hand 3y ago
Totally. As a musician we do this all of the time. Just last week a group of friends and I were chuckling at a very specific flavor of folksy pop that dominated in the early 2010's that we jokingly refer to as "stomp clap hey".
Here's a Lumineers track to jog your memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCBSSwgtg4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCBSSwgtg4
The term "stomp clap hey" is a little bit derisive and by quantifying it in this way it probably becomes a target for people to mock (see: the "karen" phenomena), but it perfectly encapsulates the tenor of this particular trend and is instantly graspable by anyone steeped in contemporary music. It has it's uses.
- chefandy 3y agoYeah— even as a non-musician who has to deal with music in a media production/directing capacity, I immediately knew what you meant. Someone who doesn't interrogate musical aesthetic deliberately might assume it encapsulated instrumentation, composition, and maybe artists or something definable like that, but it encompasses so much more than that— then-current trends in recording and production, cultural context, how it was intended to make people feel and then maybe how it really did make people feel, etc etc etc. WAY more things than you'd want to enumerate individually. Like I said, I'm not a musician, but as an art director, if I asked for a "twee ding dong ukulele whistle" song that builds energy into a "2012 bank-commercial stomp clap hey" bridge, which then turns into a weird al version of itself for comedic impact, you'd know what I was looking for enough to bring to an initial meeting.