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The modern equivalent to Gangnam Style was probably Billie Eilish's 'Bad Guy' in terms of ecumenical appeal but in terms of internet-spawned reach, TikTok is ge
by rainonmoon 3y ago
The modern equivalent to Gangnam Style was probably Billie Eilish's 'Bad Guy' in terms of ecumenical appeal but in terms of internet-spawned reach, TikTok is generating these hits every year. If you can't name anything Taylor Swift has done in the past 10 years, you're missing out on her strongest and most mature songwriting. From 1989 to her latest album, this has been Taylor Swift's golden era. The rest of the world is aware of this and I hope you'll take this opportunity to jump on board.
- bsder 3y agoAnd you promptly proved my point: unless you are specifically plugged in (aka tweeny grinding TikTok) you have zero exposure to these things. I pointed it out: go to a karaoke night. You might catch someone set up "Shake It Off" (okay, I guess I'm wrong--that counts as Taylor Swift within the last 10 years--barely). Maybe. That's it. And we're talking mostly 20-somethings--not 50-somethings. In the 70s or 80s, you simply couldn't avoid the music. Now, it's quite easy.
- rainonmoon 3y agoA lot more people are enjoying the expansive breadth of modern music tonight in all of its inventiveness and variety through TikTok (and via streamed TV and movie soundtracks, Spotify, Bandcamp and the rest of the music platforms, via the vinyl resurgence, etc etc etc) than they are via... karaoke. Your unwillingness to notice it is a shame, but not the fault of anyone else.