IANAM - I am not a “musicologist” (lol), but… It’s interesting, because pop music, with its “trap” and hip hop influences is at such a nadir, right now, and has been for the best part of 5-6 years, that someone like Olivia Rodrigo or Ava Max, who would have been utterly unremarkable 10-15 years ago, can become overnight sensations, merely by making the sort of music that was popular in the Noughties, but which has now fallen out of favour in the name of, for want of a better term, “black poetry”… 😑
Just shows you that, even in current era, people DO still want “pop punk” (Rodrigo, barely) and “clever sugar pop” (Max, mostly), even if we are told by the media that “Young people only want hip hop-inspired beats”…
IANAM - I am not a “musicologist” (lol), but… It’s interesting, because pop music, with its “trap” and hip hop influences is at such a nadir, right now, and has been for the best part of 5-6 years, that someone like Olivia Rodrigo or Ava Max, who would have been utterly unremarkable 10-15 years ago, can become overnight sensations, merely by making the sort of music that was popular in the Noughties, but which has now fallen out of favour in the name of, for want of a better term, “black poetry”… 😑
Just shows you that, even in current era, people DO still want “pop punk” (Rodrigo, barely) and “clever sugar pop” (Max, mostly), even if we are told by the media that “Young people only want hip hop-inspired beats”…
Makes you think. 🤷🏻♂️