#THAT'S RIGHT i'm talking about give me everything by pitbull. very normal chorus at the time. it was kinda just the moment | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rubiatinctorum · 26 days ago

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What more than enough commentary on songs from 2011-2012 kind of just doesn't address is how much of a thing the end of the world prediction was in pop music. At least, it seemed to me, there was so much hype about that shit. Besides the general #YOLO attitude of the time that carried on beyond 2012 for another couple of years, it was so easy to just bust out a 'the world's gonna end soon' lyric. In times like the ones right now, it's kind of easy to look back on those lyrics and think 'isn't that a little weird, thinking that life's gonna stop so soon and putting that in party music?' but even if certain people didn't actually think the world was gonna end, they committed to the bit for songs. It really didn't seem unusual to me at all at the time.

#rubia speaks #the 2012 world ending conspiracy feels so negligible in the years since #but leading up to it the whole thing really did have at least a bit of cultural impact #if i can make my own conspiracy i do think a nonzero amount of it was to try to recreate the energy of Prince's 1999 #which of course none of them ever did. NOBODY plays 'we're gonna party like like it's 2012' anymore. bffr.#but like. whether it was to try to sell records or whether it was for something else the world ending was topical for radio music #at least a little bit of it. which i see people look at the lyrics of now with incredulity as if the whole thing never happened #to talk about the song that inspired this post for a minute:#people act like the most overplayed song of 2011 is so bizarre and out there but like. that was kind of the vibe.#THAT'S RIGHT i'm talking about give me everything by pitbull. very normal chorus at the time. it was kinda just the moment #idk maybe that one has nothing to do with 2012 but when it came out i felt like it belonged very much in the 2012-zeitgeist

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