Mainstream is mostly run by teens. They are the ones with attention disorders that get obsessed over perfect hair and shiny gizmos. Now, what you hear on mainstream radios are songs that after one listen, become very catchy. Key word CATCHY. Not always the bees-knees of music, like the old classics. Kids want fun, bouncy, and upbeat, what's trendy. If you have noticed, most popular songs today have the same beat, and chipper sound to them. Superficial, but songs that you want to dance to and just be optimistic for a change instead of worrying about everything going on. Whether it's autotune or a cheeky lyric phrase, It's what this generation of young adults and teens like as a majority. Just like how back in the day it was that electric sound or chill bro rap. That's how trends work, the change of attitudes and mindsets.
Off topic story therapy, that eventually connects with me point, time! :D
I find most hit music songs these days to be really annoying and too fake and repetitive. My least favorite being Kesha. Or rather Ke$ha. The sound of her voice and songs LITERALLY, I'm not kidding, make me feel sick. But there are other songs out of the pack that do make me sentimental over my Senior year and relax to their sound. Like Lupe Fiasco's song(love his voice) "The Show Goes...
Off topic story therapy, that eventually connects with me point, time! :D
I find most hit music songs these days to be really annoying and too fake and repetitive. My least favorite being Kesha. Or rather Ke$ha. The sound of her voice and songs LITERALLY, I'm not kidding, make me feel sick. But there are other songs out of the pack that do make me sentimental over my Senior year and relax to their sound. Like Lupe Fiasco's song(love his voice) "The Show Goes...
Mainstream is mostly run by teens. They are the ones with attention disorders that get obsessed over perfect hair and shiny gizmos. Now, what you hear on mainstream radios are songs that after one listen, become very catchy. Key word CATCHY. Not always the bees-knees of music, like the old classics. Kids want fun, bouncy, and upbeat, what's trendy. If you have noticed, most popular songs today have the same beat, and chipper sound to them. Superficial, but songs that you want to dance to and just be optimistic for a change instead of worrying about everything going on. Whether it's autotune or a cheeky lyric phrase, It's what this generation of young adults and teens like as a majority. Just like how back in the day it was that electric sound or chill bro rap. That's how trends work, the change of attitudes and mindsets.
Off topic story therapy, that eventually connects with me point, time! :D
I find most hit music songs these days to be really annoying and too fake and repetitive. My least favorite being Kesha. Or rather Ke$ha. The sound of her voice and songs LITERALLY, I'm not kidding, make me feel sick. But there are other songs out of the pack that do make me sentimental over my Senior year and relax to their sound. Like Lupe Fiasco's song(love his voice) "The Show Goes On," Pitbull and Neyo's mix up of "Give Me Everything Tonight," "Written in the Stars" by Eric Turner, and the one that reminds me of the fun times at dances "Do the John Wall." The feel of those songs are bittersweet, from looking back to hockey state, chilling with friends, prom, graduation, all the changes of the year, remembering the times after the dances and sport events when driving with my friends in the car and looking out the window to the beautiful sight of Duluth and it's lift bridge at night with the lights glowing off the lake, goodbye to the fellow underclassmen, how much I'm going to miss these small moments, and what's to come in my future from summer to moving out for college. For some reason, those songs just stuck to me. Maybe because I've never let myself be a teenager and when I finally allowed myself to chill out and listen to the radio again, to enjoy the care free moments I'm living and will never be able to go back to, I finally remembered I'm still a teenager at 18 and it's okay to be one even if it's not what people like. These songs finally made it sink in to me that it's over, this milestone is completed and will never be the same and it will be hard when I look back and miss it. How I'm terrified and anxious for the changes of the impending fall of changes and I hate going into the unknown vulnerable, trying to keep me innocence. But how all the good times I've had these past 4 years will always be held close to me as the memories that can always cheer me up on a lonely day.
That's what I look for in songs. The sentimental value and memories it brings. Like that one song that brings back the smell of cooking chicken wings outside from the nearby restaurants with the fresh air breeze coming off of Lake Superior as I walk through Canal Park with my relatives when I was little on a clear skied summer midday, running through the spouting ground fountains and looking amazingly at the lift bridge as if it were the Eiffel Tower. One of my favorite and happiest feelings in the world. Now, if there was a music genre that always gave that feel to it, I would listen to it all the time. That's why today's mainstream music is so popular with teens. Like I was saying, majority of the sound is happy, living it up, not caring, good times, partying, and being young while you can vibeness. It gives the listener the same feeling I do when I listen to that one song that reminds me of the summers long ago. New song discoveries are easy to judge. If it gives that good vibe feel like the "I'm Yours" song in the summer time and not the winter, it's obvious to stick with the crowd.
I went on a a radio haitus for a good year and instead started exploring the internet to discover new songs and bands. 11th grade was an odd ball year, but not as much as 10th grade. But I'm glad I took that recess and escaped the teen bubble mind for a bit. I found really good music and connected with and understood old classics, rock, indie, and etc. And eventually, to my surprise, some of the music that I actually really enjoyed turned out to be liked by the mass public too... eventually being too long.
So of course, teens can predict what will be a hit. If they love it within one minute of the song, then it will be a blow out most likely. Everyone know the song "Stereo Love" thats been very popular over the past months? That song just recently came out on American radio stations. I discovered that song the February of 2010. A year before people here even knew it existed. I was looking through song charts from Italy for celebrating one of my favorite Italian bands success on making it on the charts(Sonohra). Then skimmed over fallowing songs and saw it listed, checked it out, loved it right away and couldn't get it out of my head. It sounded so French (which eventually led to me discovering the sweet French band called PZK). I put it on all my playlists and car CDs. It was my favorite song of my Junior year of high school. Now here I am, just graduated. Still not sick of the song. Guess what song has been at the top of the charts? Stereo Love. Winner winner chicken dinner.
Another example. Now everyone know the song "Paris" (Ooh la la) by Grace Potter? Not as popular as Stereo Love. but anyways. I randomly came across that songs video on Youtube about 6-8 months before it started playing on radios. I liked it because it was edgy and like the old time Runaways, feminist sound. Guess the mass public felt the same way. Caaaaaaaaaaa-ching!
Then there was Sick Puppies. Love em'. "Maybe," their less edgy of sounding songs, hit the mainstream charts. I was ecstatic that they were finally getting recognition. They were one of the bands I discovered during my hiatus.
Now I'm just waiting for Cody Simpson to be the next teen heartthrob here. The Australian Justin Bieber-Beiber, but with a voice and face that matches a 13 year old boy who's now 14 and hitting puberty, the time a kid should have gotten a lower voice.. I like this kid. iYiYi is so innocent and cute and was the soundtrack of me and my friends summer in 2010.
I'll get back to ya when more songs from my playlists go big. Any day now..
(more)Off topic story therapy, that eventually connects with me point, time! :D
I find most hit music songs these days to be really annoying and too fake and repetitive. My least favorite being Kesha. Or rather Ke$ha. The sound of her voice and songs LITERALLY, I'm not kidding, make me feel sick. But there are other songs out of the pack that do make me sentimental over my Senior year and relax to their sound. Like Lupe Fiasco's song(love his voice) "The Show Goes On," Pitbull and Neyo's mix up of "Give Me Everything Tonight," "Written in the Stars" by Eric Turner, and the one that reminds me of the fun times at dances "Do the John Wall." The feel of those songs are bittersweet, from looking back to hockey state, chilling with friends, prom, graduation, all the changes of the year, remembering the times after the dances and sport events when driving with my friends in the car and looking out the window to the beautiful sight of Duluth and it's lift bridge at night with the lights glowing off the lake, goodbye to the fellow underclassmen, how much I'm going to miss these small moments, and what's to come in my future from summer to moving out for college. For some reason, those songs just stuck to me. Maybe because I've never let myself be a teenager and when I finally allowed myself to chill out and listen to the radio again, to enjoy the care free moments I'm living and will never be able to go back to, I finally remembered I'm still a teenager at 18 and it's okay to be one even if it's not what people like. These songs finally made it sink in to me that it's over, this milestone is completed and will never be the same and it will be hard when I look back and miss it. How I'm terrified and anxious for the changes of the impending fall of changes and I hate going into the unknown vulnerable, trying to keep me innocence. But how all the good times I've had these past 4 years will always be held close to me as the memories that can always cheer me up on a lonely day.
That's what I look for in songs. The sentimental value and memories it brings. Like that one song that brings back the smell of cooking chicken wings outside from the nearby restaurants with the fresh air breeze coming off of Lake Superior as I walk through Canal Park with my relatives when I was little on a clear skied summer midday, running through the spouting ground fountains and looking amazingly at the lift bridge as if it were the Eiffel Tower. One of my favorite and happiest feelings in the world. Now, if there was a music genre that always gave that feel to it, I would listen to it all the time. That's why today's mainstream music is so popular with teens. Like I was saying, majority of the sound is happy, living it up, not caring, good times, partying, and being young while you can vibeness. It gives the listener the same feeling I do when I listen to that one song that reminds me of the summers long ago. New song discoveries are easy to judge. If it gives that good vibe feel like the "I'm Yours" song in the summer time and not the winter, it's obvious to stick with the crowd.
I went on a a radio haitus for a good year and instead started exploring the internet to discover new songs and bands. 11th grade was an odd ball year, but not as much as 10th grade. But I'm glad I took that recess and escaped the teen bubble mind for a bit. I found really good music and connected with and understood old classics, rock, indie, and etc. And eventually, to my surprise, some of the music that I actually really enjoyed turned out to be liked by the mass public too... eventually being too long.
So of course, teens can predict what will be a hit. If they love it within one minute of the song, then it will be a blow out most likely. Everyone know the song "Stereo Love" thats been very popular over the past months? That song just recently came out on American radio stations. I discovered that song the February of 2010. A year before people here even knew it existed. I was looking through song charts from Italy for celebrating one of my favorite Italian bands success on making it on the charts(Sonohra). Then skimmed over fallowing songs and saw it listed, checked it out, loved it right away and couldn't get it out of my head. It sounded so French (which eventually led to me discovering the sweet French band called PZK). I put it on all my playlists and car CDs. It was my favorite song of my Junior year of high school. Now here I am, just graduated. Still not sick of the song. Guess what song has been at the top of the charts? Stereo Love. Winner winner chicken dinner.
Another example. Now everyone know the song "Paris" (Ooh la la) by Grace Potter? Not as popular as Stereo Love. but anyways. I randomly came across that songs video on Youtube about 6-8 months before it started playing on radios. I liked it because it was edgy and like the old time Runaways, feminist sound. Guess the mass public felt the same way. Caaaaaaaaaaa-ching!
Then there was Sick Puppies. Love em'. "Maybe," their less edgy of sounding songs, hit the mainstream charts. I was ecstatic that they were finally getting recognition. They were one of the bands I discovered during my hiatus.
Now I'm just waiting for Cody Simpson to be the next teen heartthrob here. The Australian Justin Bieber-Beiber, but with a voice and face that matches a 13 year old boy who's now 14 and hitting puberty, the time a kid should have gotten a lower voice.. I like this kid. iYiYi is so innocent and cute and was the soundtrack of me and my friends summer in 2010.
I'll get back to ya when more songs from my playlists go big. Any day now..
I don't listen to popular music so I don't know.
Teens are terrible.
See MY correlation?
Wait, you're eighteen... what?
Off topic story therapy, that eventually connects with me point, time! :D
I find most hit music songs these days to be really annoying and too fake and repetitive. My least favorite being Kesha. Or rather Ke$ha. The sound of her voice and songs LITERALLY, I'm not kidding, make me feel sick. But there are other songs out of the pack that do make me sentimental over my Senior year and relax to their sound. Like Lupe Fiasco's song(love his voice) "The Show Goes...
Off topic story therapy, that eventually connects with me point, time! :D
I find most hit music songs these days to be really annoying and too fake and repetitive. My least favorite being Kesha. Or rather Ke$ha. The sound of her voice and songs LITERALLY, I'm not kidding, make me feel sick. But there are other songs out of the pack that do make me sentimental over my Senior year and relax to their sound. Like Lupe Fiasco's song(love his voice) "The Show Goes On," Pitbull and Neyo's mix up of "Give Me Everything Tonight," "Written in the Stars" by Eric Turner, and the one that reminds me of the fun times at dances "Do the John Wall." The feel of those songs are bittersweet, from looking back to hockey state, chilling with friends, prom, graduation, all the changes of the year, remembering the times after the dances and sport events when driving with my friends in the car and looking out the window to the beautiful sight of Duluth and it's lift bridge at night with the lights glowing off the lake, goodbye to the fellow underclassmen, how much I'm going to miss these small moments, and what's to come in my future from summer to moving out for college. For some reason, those songs just stuck to me. Maybe because I've never let myself be a teenager and when I finally allowed myself to chill out and listen to the radio again, to enjoy the care free moments I'm living and will never be able to go back to, I finally remembered I'm still a teenager at 18 and it's okay to be one even if it's not what people like. These songs finally made it sink in to me that it's over, this milestone is completed and will never be the same and it will be hard when I look back and miss it. How I'm terrified and anxious for the changes of the impending fall of changes and I hate going into the unknown vulnerable, trying to keep me innocence. But how all the good times I've had these past 4 years will always be held close to me as the memories that can always cheer me up on a lonely day.
That's what I look for in songs. The sentimental value and memories it brings. Like that one song that brings back the smell of cooking chicken wings outside from the nearby restaurants with the fresh air breeze coming off of Lake Superior as I walk through Canal Park with my relatives when I was little on a clear skied summer midday, running through the spouting ground fountains and looking amazingly at the lift bridge as if it were the Eiffel Tower. One of my favorite and happiest feelings in the world. Now, if there was a music genre that always gave that feel to it, I would listen to it all the time. That's why today's mainstream music is so popular with teens. Like I was saying, majority of the sound is happy, living it up, not caring, good times, partying, and being young while you can vibeness. It gives the listener the same feeling I do when I listen to that one song that reminds me of the summers long ago. New song discoveries are easy to judge. If it gives that good vibe feel like the "I'm Yours" song in the summer time and not the winter, it's obvious to stick with the crowd.
I went on a a radio haitus for a good year and instead started exploring the internet to discover new songs and bands. 11th grade was an odd ball year, but not as much as 10th grade. But I'm glad I took that recess and escaped the teen bubble mind for a bit. I found really good music and connected with and understood old classics, rock, indie, and etc. And eventually, to my surprise, some of the music that I actually really enjoyed turned out to be liked by the mass public too... eventually being too long.
So of course, teens can predict what will be a hit. If they love it within one minute of the song, then it will be a blow out most likely. Everyone know the song "Stereo Love" thats been very popular over the past months? That song just recently came out on American radio stations. I discovered that song the February of 2010. A year before people here even knew it existed. I was looking through song charts from Italy for celebrating one of my favorite Italian bands success on making it on the charts(Sonohra). Then skimmed over fallowing songs and saw it listed, checked it out, loved it right away and couldn't get it out of my head. It sounded so French (which eventually led to me discovering the sweet French band called PZK). I put it on all my playlists and car CDs. It was my favorite song of my Junior year of high school. Now here I am, just graduated. Still not sick of the song. Guess what song has been at the top of the charts? Stereo Love. Winner winner chicken dinner.
Another example. Now everyone know the song "Paris" (Ooh la la) by Grace Potter? Not as popular as Stereo Love. but anyways. I randomly came across that songs video on Youtube about 6-8 months before it started playing on radios. I liked it because it was edgy and like the old time Runaways, feminist sound. Guess the mass public felt the same way. Caaaaaaaaaaa-ching!
Then there was Sick Puppies. Love em'. "Maybe," their less edgy of sounding songs, hit the mainstream charts. I was ecstatic that they were finally getting recognition. They were one of the bands I discovered during my hiatus.
Now I'm just waiting for Cody Simpson to be the next teen heartthrob here. The Australian Justin Bieber-Beiber, but with a voice and face that matches a 13 year old boy who's now 14 and hitting puberty, the time a kid should have gotten a lower voice.. I like this kid. iYiYi is so innocent and cute and was the soundtrack of me and my friends summer in 2010.
I'll get back to ya when more songs from my playlists go big. Any day now..
I prefer to listen to rock music by bands like Disturbed, Skillet, Three Days Grace, etc.