It makes me so sad to see people expect and enjoy music that is equally as miserable as they feel. Some people love escapism songs like these. Why is upbeat, happy music considered dead because we are in dark times?
Posted by DinoKYT
It makes me so sad to see people expect and enjoy music that is equally as miserable as they feel. Some people love escapism songs like these. Why is upbeat, happy music considered dead because we are in dark times?
Posted by DinoKYT
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It’s ragebait…
Everybody’s anorexic or taking Ozempic, the world is on the verge of world war three, and the news cycle is so insidiously horrific nobody can pretend what’s happening isn’t happening. This is not 2015. We can’t pretend things are going to be okay anymore. We can’t listen to shitty music without a message and turn out brains off for three minutes and pretend it’s enough to simply be the performance of fun anymore.
twitter verified accounts are outliers adn should not be counted
i’m not sure i agree with your premise here. people aren’t really gravitating towards mid 2010s girl boss anthemic pop songs at the moment. that doesn’t mean uplifting or joyous music isn’t enjoyed – it just tends to be mid/low tempo pop (optimistic but not so … self aggrandizing?) nowadays
There are plenty of upbeat fun songs out at the moment, hasn’t Sabrina Carpenter just released three in a row including this Madonna collaboration?
I suppose the thing about an empowering message is another part to this but… song themes go in and out of fashion so it won’t be forever.
dwdw, don’t take anyones opinion on twitter seriously. on that site the more negative you are, the more attention and engagement you’ll get ESPECIALLY if you’re “verified”.
i mean, the ones lizzo does don’t hit anymore
What a nothing burger to post about. Their opinion is different than yours, so what?
it’s not that these kinds of songs are worn out or that people don’t want to be happy. it’s that this specific genre of empowerment girl boss anthems has long since died. people don’t want artists regurgitating the same sound for ten years… like ofc she’s khia
I don’t understand some takes on this, didn’t lizzo have lawsuits against her for her poor behavior to people working for her, so that’s why her music about empowerment seem contrived?
Well I think uplifting self love anthems from a sex pest don’t hit at least
The “girlboss” era is over. That’s what they’re saying. Fun songs are still a thing.
Pop music is constantly evolving, both sonically and thematically. Because of this, there are very few pop whose career success extends beyond a few years. One day, you’re the best thing since sliced bread. The next day, you’re cheesy and outdated. This is why a pop star that is able to sustain popularity beyond one album is automatically a pop icon.
Lizzo is proving to be an average level pop star whose success is a flash in the pan and it is unlikely she will be able to create the success of her first album. That is the end game for the vast majority of pop singers. She’ll make crazy money on a nostalgia bait tour 15+ years from now.
I think our collective tolerance of overt corniness has decreased alongside the rise of Gen Z’s cynicism and avoidance of anything deemed too cringe. Cheesy self-empowerment girlboss music feels very tied to millennials for me (speaking as someone on the border of Gen Z and millennial).
If anything I think fun poppy music is having a pretty big resurgence overall compared to the more melancholy pop that was around for a while
Weight loss injections killed the body positivism movement in an a blink of an eye. it was wasn’t a slow death and there was near no resistance – As soon as it came out “So long bitches” said a lot of the people and that was that.
Uplifting self-love type of anthems will always hit.
I find it weird she keeps putting out music that seems to say ‘yeah I abused my backing dancers and I don’t give a shit’. Like… show some contrition. This ‘I don’t care what anyone thinks’ attitude is really off putting.
I don’t think happy music is dead, it just shares space now with more emotional songs because people are dealing with a lot, both kinds still matter.
I honestly agree with the tweet. Those anthems are also a product of the time (post recession pop, or what I like to call post post recession pop) and were just not there anymore
I mean, I personally would not like any more music from Lizzo, as she seems like a not great person who has expressed her love for Chris Brown- on video no less, and who purportedly stiffed a food truck owner, not to mention the allegations of treating people she works with poorly and being degrading. She can make whatever music she wants, but I won’t be listening anymore.