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New 1975 album is out. I dunno if it’s being talked about in another thread but this is definitely the most appropriate one. It’s good
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# ? Nov 30, 2018 10:38 |
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Escobarbarian posted:New 1975 album is out. I dunno if it’s being talked about in another thread but this is definitely the most appropriate one. It’s good all of the singles that have been out for a while range from great to amazing (special notice to It's Not Living If It's Not With You which a happy song about heroin on par with Semi-Charmed Life), and the rest of the album is good with a few songs working up to great (that last one in particular is something special).
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# ? Nov 30, 2018 19:38 |
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Yeah the singles are definitely my favourite tracks and I’m less into the ballads like Be My Mistake but the last track and that Siri interlude are real good
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# ? Dec 1, 2018 15:42 |
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Why didn't anybody tell me this happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJ8CbrWX_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES9hM2fgyAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qPrCQOcUKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsJzY12lZos
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# ? Dec 8, 2018 02:04 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNMDaJcUKMs I love how something this weird can make it onto loving Fallon ahahaha
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 22:01 |
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[elon musk blunt face]
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 22:58 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AvrilLavigne/status/1072914789582565376 New Avril single https://youtu.be/g5wseA6HoNs
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 01:11 |
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That new Avril is pretty good. The new grimes song is pretty stellar though. Really really like that one.
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 07:04 |
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https://twitter.com/MarinaDiamandis/status/1073281006713618432 A tease of a new Marina song. This album will kill me.
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 19:22 |
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Sai-kun posted:https://twitter.com/MarinaDiamandis/status/1073281006713618432 I want it now
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 19:52 |
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I've always been a huge sucker for the three note progression she uses in the words "enjoy your life" at the end there. It's why I also loved Taio Cruz' Dynamite and a bunch of other pop songs. Does that set of three notes have a name?
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 02:27 |
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The grimes song is good but the whole "subjugate humanity to the tech overlord" theme stops being a cute shadowrun thing when she is literally supporting that in real life
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 14:33 |
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It's a song about the shared Twitter joke that brought the two together, which is kind of sweet.
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# ? Dec 15, 2018 11:26 |
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Siivola posted:It's a song about the shared Twitter joke that brought the two together, which is kind of sweet. Just called chief, this ain't it etc.
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# ? Dec 15, 2018 22:31 |
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They hooked up over a joke about Roko's Basilisk, which is the stupidest "thought experiment" I've read this past month and also basically the entire plot of the song "We Appreciate Power".
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# ? Dec 15, 2018 22:44 |
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Christina Perri is back with a new song and an album being released next month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqbvW29_WOQ Too bad it's an album for children.
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# ? Dec 16, 2018 16:57 |
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Is it though?
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# ? Dec 16, 2018 17:07 |
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Really digging the new Miley Cyrus
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# ? Dec 17, 2018 02:59 |
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JoJo has rerecorded and uploaded 2 albums worth of older material.
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# ? Dec 21, 2018 05:33 |
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Where? I don’t see it on iTunes or Spotify.
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# ? Dec 21, 2018 05:58 |
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the truth posted:Where? I don’t see it on iTunes or Spotify. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/jojo-2018/1447538384 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-high-road-2018/1447539460
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# ? Dec 21, 2018 08:46 |
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Fuuuuuuuuck yes. Thank you. I see them now, but they weren’t on her page on either service late last night. Mad Love had some fun songs (Vibe and FAB) but was kind of blah overall, but she is so drat talented. Her version of Take Me Home on her free LP was great. Hope she continues to find success the truth fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Dec 21, 2018 |
# ? Dec 21, 2018 15:57 |
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It's official: in a surprising upset, this year's UK Christmas number-one is a novelty song about sausage rolls. Proceeds go to charity so it's all good.
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# ? Dec 21, 2018 20:56 |
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I've always loved We Built This City, regardless of how many "these songs were bad but still were big hits" list it ends up on. so more power to them.
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# ? Dec 21, 2018 22:31 |
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Really digging the new Miley Cyrus Yeah, I really like it too. It's a lot better than any song from her previous album.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 17:42 |
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Hello pop music people. I have a general pop music question. Pop music in the late 90s/early 00s sounded less 'produced'. That's probably not the correct word, but the songs sounded more sparse/less full in their musicality/complexity. Not the lyrics, but more specifically the mix surrounding it. I've always wondered was that simply the stylistic choice at the time or was there a change in music production/technology that enabled pop music writ large to be more 'full' in its sound/mix? e: It's also possible of course it's just anecdotal in the (many) songs I've heard throughout my life, but I feel like I've had enough of a sample size to see some sort of trend.
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 18:13 |
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trash person posted:Hello pop music people. I have a general pop music question. Also the rise and availability of Digital Audio Workstations led to more tools being available at a producer's disposal. It also eventually meant that anyone could make music if they wanted to, which is why you see so many artists emerging from SoundCloud (and to give an older example, MySpace) nowadays. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Dec 23, 2018 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Loudness war. It can get pretty technical, but essentially as digital music started becoming more and more prevalent and fewer things were recorded analog, producers would try to maximize the amount of volume in a song without distorting it, leaving less room for dynamics like there used to be. Not everyone did this, but a lot of pop artists did. It's basically this. But because this always risks sounding like meaningless audiophile stuff that doesn't actually make a noticeable difference, I like to use sandpaper as an analogy. Imagine a fully mixed recording of a song as a wood carving. The volume fluctuations that naturally happen in any recording -- in fact, volume fluctuations basically are what a recording is -- are the bumps on the wood. Occasionally there might be a stray bump that's undesirable, so you can use sandpaper to grind it down a little, resulting in a more attractive product. However, if you use it too much, you end up with just a shapeless block of wood. Sir Lemming fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Dec 23, 2018 |
# ? Dec 23, 2018 21:36 |
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Sampling’s also matured a lot as a technology. You just plain couldn't do today's soundscapes back in the day. Now you can rap over the sound of wind on Mars, how cool is that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iovUGHuuIyo
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 22:18 |
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Siivola posted:Sampling’s also matured a lot as a technology. You just plain couldn't do today's soundscapes back in the day. Now you can rap over the sound of wind on Mars, how cool is that.
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 22:26 |
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Sir Lemming posted:Audio compression = sandpaper, and digital audio compression = a power sander, I guess. The Loudness War definitely plays a big role in the increased use of dynamic compression in pop music but dynamic compression can also just be an intentional technique to get a certain production “sound”, the same way you’d hear Auto-Tune in tracks by artists who can actually hit notes without its help, or intentional use of distortion, etc.; it became part of the toolbox.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 00:40 |
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What is an example of late 90s/early 2000’s pop that sounds less produced and modern pop that is over produced? When I think of late 90s pop I think Backstreet Boys, Brittany Spears, Spice Girls... not exactly minimalist poo poo. And I can think of a lot of modern pop music that‘s lo-fi/bedroom hip hop influenced. Well produced but spartan compared to Backstreet Boys.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 00:56 |
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The common denominator between the Backstreet Boys / Britney Spears and, say, Katy Perry or Taylor Swift since she stopped recording country music is clear: Max Martin. Max Martin is one of those figures who's interesting to me because of his own musical roots: he was in an obscure heavy metal band in Sweden before he became a superstar songwriter / producer. See also: Dann Huff and Mutt Lange, who were the most powerful country music producers of the late 90s / early 00s, and both of whom had backgrounds in hair metal to varying degrees (obviously Lange made his name recording AC/DC but it's those Def Leppard albums he did that he was leaning on when he started recording Shania Twain).
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 13:52 |
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Lazlo Nibble posted:“Digital audio compression” = codecs (MP3/AAC/etc.); “audio compression” = dynamic compression. I don’t think “digital” plays into the latter at all, except that performing dynamic compression in the digital domain might give you more control/flexibility. My bad, I didn't mean that type of compression, to get the file size down. I just meant with digital mixing tools it's easier to slap a dynamic compressor on the whole track. BigFactory posted:What is an example of late 90s/early 2000’s pop that sounds less produced and modern pop that is over produced? When I think of late 90s pop I think Backstreet Boys, Brittany Spears, Spice Girls... not exactly minimalist poo poo. And I can think of a lot of modern pop music that‘s lo-fi/bedroom hip hop influenced. Well produced but spartan compared to Backstreet Boys. Late 90s is probably too late. That's right around when compression was getting really crazy. Think mid 90s -- like Alanis Morisette, which I guess is "alternative" but really, that was pop at the time. I do think things have been scaling back since around 2010 as there was a bit of a pushback to these trends. Obviously digital production is still very very much a thing, but people are getting smarter about how to use it. In a good way. Plus, of course, the more independent artists that don't have a huge budget.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 15:45 |
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Sir Lemming posted:Late 90s is probably too late. That's right around when compression was getting really crazy. Think mid 90s -- like Alanis Morisette, which I guess is "alternative" but really, that was pop at the time. Alanis Morrisette isn't the first name that comes to mind when I think of 90's pop radio. Ironic got a little bit of crossover play but Madonna and Whitney Houston and Michael/Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey...that's what was getting played on top 40 radio stations. Even 2010 was almost a decade ago! I think there's some very "overproduced" sounding pop music right now, and some very intentionally sparsely produced pop music (think songs like Justin Bieber Sorry, or Hotline Bling). If anything, producers and engineers are probably better at producing songs to sound good when they're listened to on youtube or spotify.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 16:14 |
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Whatever happened to Duffy?
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# ? Dec 29, 2018 12:25 |
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Sophomore slump.
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# ? Dec 29, 2018 18:55 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Whatever happened to Duffy? me and my friends were joking about buying dumb failed blockbusters in 4k at work and it just devolved into remembering all of the big movie bombs from the last like, 7 years. Duffy is like, the pop star equivalent of one of those movies edit: or maybe Adele defeated her in hand-to-hand combat and was the British Soul Singer releasing their debut in 2008 that was allowed to take the Winehouse British Soul Crown DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Dec 30, 2018 |
# ? Dec 30, 2018 10:10 |
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oh poo poo i almost forgot I got tickets to see Gaga in Vegas next October!!! It's basically a birthday/"sorry we're going on vacation without you" present from my parents but I got GA Floor tickets to the Enigma show and really, really far back tickets to the Jazz and Piano show. I've never seen Gaga and never been to Vegas but i feel like the two will go together well. I'm not watching the videos of the performance so I can be surprised by how it happens but she does Shallow (obviously) and covers David Bowie's (makes sense) I'm Afraid of Americans (oooooook?) with Government Hooker which means I'm gonna be really happy because that just sounds lovely. now I just need to see her on a broadway stage and i'll be able to die happy.
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DC Murderverse posted:oh poo poo i almost forgot I’m so jealous. I think late next year is a good time to go too, by then new music will be out, things will get refined, concepts tightened up etc. The first few dates at any tour/residency are usually not the best. I’m gonna try and see Enigma too.
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