#nu-disco

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[discoholicmusic]

DO YOU LIKE SOUP? 🍲

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Tracklist:

My Type • Ace in the Hole • Cold Cold Man • Midnight Movies

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[nineteenfiftysix]

Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (Modjo, 2000)

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

Someone asked for me to include the Napoleon Dynamite dance scene as an alternate music video for Canned Heat, so here it is.

Listen to both songs before voting, and define "better" any way you wish!

[possible-streetwear]

Pixel Grip -  Rita Lukea

[reckonslepoisson]

It’s the Arps (2012), It’s Album Time (2014), Todd Terje

In beams from the cosmos Todd Terje’s delicately funky, meticulously assembled house, surely an alien ploy to seduce us, enrapture us. What lurks beyond, and what are sinister extra-terrestrials up to whilst our minds and bodies are so helplessly lured away? Conspiracy theorists frequently believe stupider things. 

Pick: ‘Inspector Norse’, ‘Delorean Dynamite’

[izzylimon]

Justice – Neverender (Starring Tame Impala) (new video!!)

source: youtube

[mymelodic-chapel]

Madonna- Confessions on a Dance Floor (Dance-Pop, Nu-Disco, Pop) Released: November 9, 2005 [Warner Bros. Records] Producer(s): Madonna, Stuart Price, Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Bloodshy & Avant

[strangeauthor]

Potatoes originated around what is now Peru & Bolivia! A lot of things we think of as intrinsic to European dishes come from the Americas

omg

[disease]

ALL I DO IS WORK KURTIS PERRIE [SINGLE, 2022]

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[discoholicmusic]

Sparkle On! It's Wednesday! Don't Forget To Be Yourself!

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Tracklist:

More More More • Love At First Sight • Can't Get You Out Of My Head • Fever • Give It To Me • Fragile • Come Into My World • In Your Eyes • Dancefloor • Love Affair • Your Love • Burning Up

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[nineteenfiftysix]

AOA - 흔들려 (Confused) (Red Motion, 2013)

[listeningisattentiontosound]

TRENDING - House in Pop

definition

House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 120-130 beats per minute as a re-emergence of 1970s disco. It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture and evolved slowly in the early/mid-1980s, as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat. By early 1988, House became mainstream and supplanted the typical 80s music beat. - Wikipedia

recent examples

yes, and by Ariana Grande (2024)

Problematique by Kim Petras (2023)

Break My Soul by Beyoncé (2022)

Chromatica by Lady Gaga (2020)

and more!

origins

Similar to the actual origins of house music, we can credit the current trend of house in pop to the popularity of disco pop (also known as nu-disco) in the mid-2010s - 2020. The first wave of nu-disco was in the early 2000s (see Kylie Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor) but its second wave is what is responsible for the house resurgence today.

Kickstarted by Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and piqued by "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk, 2013 was the year that brought disco pop back from the dead. Its popularity waned as the 2010s came to a close and then peaked back up again in 2020 thanks to hits like "Say So" by Doja Cat and "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa.

Then, 2 months after the release of the disco-laden Future Nostalgia, Lady Gaga released Chromatica, pioneering the house pop revival of the 20s. Unfortunately, the pandemic stifled this era. Clubs, THE house for house music, were closed so who knows just how big songs like "Babylon" and "Sour Candy" could've been had they been on rotation at queer nightclubs instead of streamed in isolation at home. It wasn't until Beyoncé's "Break My Soul" in June 2022* did we see this sound dominate in pop, becoming Beyoncé's 8th solo #1. Plus, the clubs were reopened so house music was allowed to thrive in its home once again and catch on with those even outside its doors.

It's fitting that a genre created for Black, Brown, and queer audiences amid a deadly epidemic would be revived during a deadly pandemic to remind us to forget the haters and celebrate life.*

forecast

Even though it is currently trending, house is forever. It will ebb and flow but its influence and sound on music is permanent. It's too good to go away entirely. That said, we may only score just one more house pop hit from a pop diva (looking at you Katy Perry) before a seismic shift in pop culture happens. We are at the midway point of the decade (Already?!!!) so dramatic changes in trends, music, etc. are bound to occur. It's telling that Ariana Grande's latest release was met with a divisive reception, with some of this being due to the drama surrounding her personal relationship and some of this being that people just do not like the sound, deriding it as "H&M music." Disco pop is already in its decline so house pop will probably follow.

*It's worth noting that Drake took a career turn and released a house album just days before "Break My Soul." It wasn't good though so honestly, nevermind.

*Babylon, Break My Soul, Problematique, and yes, and all share this sentiment. There are many reasons why house music is the appropriate genre for this message, but the most obvious reason is that this message resonates most strongly with queer audiences.