#Popular music

[rosiexjo]

Girltober Day Twenty: Florence + the Machine

[stone-cold-groove]

Ringos.

[rhapsodynew]

Behind the scenes of Sergeant Pepper.

What would they do with modern capabilities?! The guys were super creative and talented! 😃

[citizenscreen]

“American Bandstand" began broadcasting nationally #OnThisDay in 1957.

The show that evolved into "American Bandstand" began on Philadelphia’s WFIL-TV in 1952. Dick Clark took over as host in the summer of 1956 and pushed for a national audience.

[schibborasso]

Peter Gabriel photo by Clive Arrowsmith, 1978

[anxietyfrappuccino]

why are there so many sex songs on the radio

[fashionlandscapeblog]

That older generations always criticized younger ones' taste in music is no novelty (old man yells at cloud). It's a fact of time and aging (when we become older, we're less flexible + tolerant to new ideas). Furthermore, traditionally, older generations criticized newer ones because of being 'too rebellious', 'too loud', too 'progressive in ideas' and 'too out there'. However, when a Gen Xer criticizes Gen Z's music it is quite often because of the opposite: it lacks the rebelliousness, loudness, and experimentation our generation's music had. Rock, the ultimate loud, iconoclastic, and rebellious genre of music is basically extinct. The Gen Z top 40 is traditionally poppy and agreeable with the status quo. So doesn't it seem the opposite? Am I really old, or is this generation too conformist in terms of music? Bob Dylan called this generation's music 'too smooth and painless' and people being now 'pill poppers, cube heads and day trippers'. If that's an old man yelling at the sky, is the average Taylor Swift listener an iconoclast and a punk? Am I the only one who doubts the latter?

P.S. There has never been in history more diversity and creativity in music than there is now in the Internet/Information era, yet music has never sounded more the same and you gotta spend hours to find something listenworthy outside the top 100 on Youtube/TikTok, while we, Gen Xers had experimental/alternative music in the Top 40 (admittedly, amongst a LOT of crap). Gen Z is politically superior to the coward Gen X, a big part of it is the contemporary 'hippie' generation, just not in terms of music, and that's what this rant is all about.

[wiserebeltiger]

The amount of trauma people have gone through with the pandemic, has caused people to realize that “light entertainment” (TV, blockbuster movies) won’t cut it. People have gone through some serious shit. They demand poetry, dense novels, and religious texts, to give them the insight and emotional support they need just to survive and not have a mental breakdown, the way the world is today.

A culture entirely based on DISTRACTION and ESCAPISM simply will not do.

People understand the psychology now. How Hollywood diverts. Among other functions.

We drop the old out of ballance “narcotics is the biggest thing” American culture, not out of moral injunction but out of necessity. We are going crazy and starving otherwise.

One reason TV is in decline, and seems destined to become no longer prestige, is that even the best prestige TV will not give you enough substance. Trying to shunt some intellect into a commercial medium “a little spectacle a little substance” is a mixture that no longer works. TV will just be TV. Art will just be art. We want the full thing, unadulterated. Well, maybe a little adulterated.

In this sense, the media landscape is starting to resemble the 1930s: I go to my movies for escapism (mostly), and I go to my “art” for the depth, substance, social commentary, harsh reality.

[johnschneiderblog]

The LH song with a life of its own

Daughter Caitlin was listening to a New Yorker magazine podcast - a conversation between music critics Naomi Fry and Kelefa Sanneh about how social media - TikTok, in particular - has reshaped the popular-music landscape,

They discussed all the usual players - Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Katy Perry, Chappell Roan, etc.

Then, about 40 minutes into the interview, the conversation between the two music critics took a radical turn - toward a song that's practically an oldie:

Sanneh: "One of the biggest songs of 2024 is 'The Night We Met' - the 2015 song by Lord Huron. (Cue a short clip of the song).

Fry: "Wait, really?'

Kalefa: "Yes, that (song) has ... gone more viral than ever. It's over 2 billion streams on Spotify.

Fry: "Wait .... How did this happen (with) a 2015 song?"

Kalefa: "It's gotten a bunch of music placements over the years. It's gotten some TikTok activit; people seem to keep finding it. It's huge on the chart. It's being consumed at an incredible level.

"And ... obviously Lord Huron are not pop girlies, right? This is a kind of like retro rock indie song. Yeah. but to a lot of people's experience of 2024, while we're talking about all this stuff, they're talking about that."

Obviously "TNWM" got a big boost from its placement, in 2017, in an iconic scene in the TV series "13 Reasons Why." But that doesn't totally explain its staying power.

Maybe it's just a damn fine tune.

[rosiexjo]

Girltober Day Twenty Six: Aurora

[tilbageidanmark]

LPs

[rhapsodynew]

Autumn is beautiful...The golden autumn has come!

[citizenscreen]

On March 14, 1958, the RIAA awarded its first official Gold Record to Perry Como for his smash-hit single “Catch A Falling Star.”

[lysergicfunk]

Rest In Peace Burt... 

Burt Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Filthy Fifteen

One of the actions taken by the PMRC was compiling a list of fifteen songs in popular music, at the time, that they found the most objectionable. This list is known as the "Filthy Fifteen" and consists of the following songs along with the lyrical content category for which each song was considered objectionable