Fever

4mo

im surprised I missed that queef jerky song

this stuff is all cool, but could be way more polished like 10000 gecs, still dope though

Rock Mudson

4mo

Dylan Brady has been making this s*** since 2015 and had real resources for that album. Same mixer as Doja and Frank Ocean. These are indie kiddos

Fever

4mo

im all about kids making music and s***, some cool stuff in my city from kids rn

with hyperpop I just have a hard time getting it if its really amateurish, even if its the point. I dont hate on it at all

checking out dylan brady now

edit oh yeah thats the guy in 100 gecs lmfaooo I do really like some of lauras amateurish stuff though still, like how to dress human

Rock Mudson

4mo

His stuff with Cake Pop came out before they linked up. And I think a lot of rage adjacent artists are hyper pop adjacent too.

Fever

4mo

never heard of cake pop, looking it up now

I was never a 100 gecs fan till last year, and the only hyper pop stuff I ever liked was charli or sophie if she ever counted. I tried all 100 gecs projects in the past and they ranked very low on my end of year lists, 10000 was top 3 of 2023 tho

still not super sold on it all, but I try to watch it closely still

rage yeah I agree, its like hyperpop but with a handful of unique differences. but neither genres im super into yet

Rock Mudson

4mo

I don't think you're ever gonna have to enjoy hyperpop. There are lots of younger people making it, but they're online weirdos.

Actual normal kids are listening to regular ass pop music same as ever. Girls are listening to Lana Del Ray, Taylor Swift, Kpop, Nirvana, Spanish pop. Boys are listening to Drake and Morgan Wallen and Bad Bunny and Travis Scott.

That said, I crawl YouTube and a lot of artists have healthy careers with a niche audience. People who never cross my mind get more views on the regular than people we talk about all the time

Fever

4mo

yeah, I guess I dont have to in the sense of forcing it, but when I heard 10000 gecs the first time I had no choice but to love it lol. Eventually I think others will follow or expand on their blueprint with that specific album. I want more neo hyper ska dammit

I want to love all music though, but theres too much I hate. I dont think theres a genre I fully hate anymore as of a year or two ago

2words

4mo

The idea that people are mostly looking for music that relates to themselves isn’t really true

Rock Mudson

4mo

Gecs is still crazy niche. They kind of peaked already tbh. I think they're fresh though. Best in that space

soapmanwun

4mo

No and ironically racism is the reason why. Most people, especially the youth of each generation, tend to gravitate towards music that defies the morals and artistic conventions of their parents' generation.
When rap blew up throughout the 80s-2000s it was the most rebellious music possible for suburban america to latch onto because there is nothing the white majority could have been more afraid of than poor black folk from the hood rapping about their experiences.

As consequence, mainstream america has become extremely desensitized to the struggles of impoverished black people (word to r/Chiraqology, NoJumper, etc) almost to the point of parody. Now in rap it's almost expected for its creators and audience to be apathetic or even mocking of the genre's original intended audience; see Tom McDonald's new song with Ben Shapiro. If they dropped something like that in the 90s they would have been pressed for sure but no current rappers would dare to do such a thing because nobody cares about the integrity of the genre. Hip-hop has been completely b******ized by meme culture and this amoral, overly accessible chimera of a genre will be impossible to replace in the foreseeable future.

2words

4mo

The idea that people are mostly looking for music that relates to themselves isn’t really true

OMEGA

4mo

This is true. But powerful music tends to lean towards that

When people seek music that is not like that it tends to drift into minstrel and meme territory

Ala Sexy Redd,6ix9ine,21Savage etc

There has to be a balance between reality and fantasy

BRAVE

4mo

If you understood what makes hiphop what it is you wouldn’t even ask such a ridiculous question

Valentine

4mo

Cole was raised in the hood and grew up as a black man in his community tho, his mother just so happened to be white but she didn’t raise him on white culture lmao.

I’m also confused why you mentioned Carti and Travis