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Anonymous 09/05/23 (Tue) 01:49:20 AM No. 319723

I fall in and out of pop music every few years, but I haven't found any new pop stars that at least make fun music. Local radio doesn't even play new pop hits anymore, all my top 40 stations have pivoted to being nostalgia stations. I can't tell if this is because streaming and tiktok have made "stars" too niche to be appreciated across a broad audience or not. But I've noticed nobody really has any idea of what the Billboard Hot 100 is anymore. I just checked it and Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer" is at number 4. That's a song released in 2019, why is it charting now? Eras tour? Tiktok? The idea of a national pop music culture feels dead with how random the songs that chart are and with so few good contenders for future pop stars.

Indie music isn't doing much better with even acts like Animal Collective not being able to tour due to inflation. If indie acts can't make money off CDs or touring, I don't know how or if they're going to be able to survive. What is going on with music? Is there any hope for local scenes? Or are we in the bleh age of music where there are few national discourses and no local scenes?

Anonymous 09/05/23 (Tue) 03:07:37 AM No. 319730

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>>319718
Thanks for the thread OP! >>319698 DA btw but I'd call boygenius "she/theycore". My own taste is kind of all over the place though, sometimes I feel like a slight NLOG for liking the Kate Bush/Fiona Apple/Bjork trinity and hating stuff like Taylor Swift and Lana but there are some pop artists with catchy stuff (for me it's some Tove Lo and Charli XCX kek)

Anonymous 09/05/23 (Tue) 04:59:51 AM No. 319739

This is a good idea for a thread. I’ve always loved the smiths and I’m mad that tiktok fags found their music and sped it up

Anonymous 09/05/23 (Tue) 05:30:44 AM No. 319744

>>319730
Is it really necessary to bring those soulless 4chan memes over here.

Anonymous 09/05/23 (Tue) 07:25:29 AM No. 319757

>>319730
Ngl I hate Charli, don't understand what the gays see in her. I also can't stand Taylor Swift, her and her fans are nlog enough themselves but I'll give Lana credit for always finding a way to stay relevant with teenagers.

>>319739
This but for Cigarettes After Sex. Since when did they get so popular?

Anonymous 09/05/23 (Tue) 07:39:30 AM No. 319762

>>319730
too much trannies mixed in this meme
>I feel like a slight NLOG for liking the Kate Bush/Fiona Apple/Bjork trinity and hating stuff like Taylor Swift and Lana
don't worry, i'm worse, i hate all of the artists you mentioned (besides bjork, i respect her)

Anonymous 09/05/23 (Tue) 08:27:24 AM No. 319768

I'm really late to the party I know but I just started listening to the cure and love their disintegration album. especially lovesong - I've had it on repeat often lately.
also I've been discovering old vkei bands that I never bothered listening to until recently. luna sea, la'cryma christi, malice mizer, the gazette, monolith, alice nine, maximum the hormone (well I guess they are just metal and not vkei) - I can't believe I was missing out on all this music and a lot of the bands are broken up or getting too old to tour so there is no chance of seeing them live.

Anonymous 09/05/23 (Tue) 11:38:34 AM No. 319796

>>319768
I think you'd enjoy Laputa and Rouage if you don't know them already !!

I also think you'd like Baiser and bands like Die in Cries or Fanatic Crisis, but I'm insecure about my recommendation abilities kek.

Anonymous 09/06/23 (Wed) 01:56:09 AM No. 319901

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>>319739
Nobody tell Moz they do that, I suspect he already has high blood pressure and I don't want him to die anytime soon

Anonymous 09/06/23 (Wed) 07:01:00 AM No. 319925

>>319796
thanks for the recs nona, I quite enjoyed rouage, baiser, and fanatic crisis. I did a little research on the bands too and some were really popular back in the day, I wonder why nobody ever talks about them anymore.

Anonymous 09/06/23 (Wed) 09:21:39 AM No. 319935

>>319739
i fucking hate the smiths and i loathe people who are like "separate the art like i already wanted him dead for his incredibly annoying whiny voice as a kid before i even cared for any singer and when i did find out about morrissey in my early teens i hated him even more for being ugly and even further for his retarded ass views to alog levels. i hate both the art and the artist equally ! it's obviously a me problem because i know numerous cool people that shock me by being big fans of the smiths but to me the sound is so excruciatingly grating i can't stand it. i don't know if the lyricism is good because i really cannot bare to listen to that voice and i'm not even being exaggerative. i don't hate even hate the genre i like the cure and such i just can't stand the smiths specifically. absolutely loathe that band's sound, but maybe i'd enjoy it as poetry or something, and i like the instrumentals too.

Anonymous 09/06/23 (Wed) 12:40:59 PM No. 319962

>>319935
kek nta i love the smiths but respect your strong emotions

Anonymous 09/06/23 (Wed) 01:21:04 PM No. 319968

>>319935
so based… morrissey is seriousoy an annoying fag

Anonymous 09/06/23 (Wed) 05:35:21 PM No. 319997

Thanks for making the thread OP! I feel like I haven't found a good place for music discussion online so hopefully this thread stays active.

>>319723
Interesting, I didn't know AnCo weren't able to tour, they used to be one of my favorites and I've seen them live a few times. Did they say that somewhere they couldn't afford it? To me, it's just the state of most industries nowadays, inflation is rapidly fucking up people who have genuine artistic merit and new ideas because record companies/radio/promoters are looking for that quick hit (aka Tiktok music) just to stay relevant. As for local scenes you usually have to be connected through social groups to find them but they do exist. Also depends where you are. I've lived around a few "music" cities that were teeming with musicians. Where I live now there are no concert venues for small acts, the best I can hope for is going to an open mic and that isn't always original music. But back to your point about surviving - the musicians who are relatively underground have been underpaid forever. I'd guess most play out of sheer enjoyment and a desire to share music. It sucks but I'm not sure how else we can individually encourage indie artists other than buying their music/merch/promoting online.

>>319768
Same here, I never listened to The Cure but recently listened to Disintegration and adored it. It actually made me emotional and I tend to steer away from music like that. I feel like I either have to sit completely still and close my eyes to enjoy it, and most of the time when I listen to music I'm doing other things, so I can't listen too closely. Working or cleaning up while listening to someone pour their heart out just doesn't feel right.

Anonymous 09/06/23 (Wed) 06:27:33 PM No. 320005

>>319997
I used to listen to music like that, especially Disintegration, by dancing and singing along in my bedroom. I had a record player now I have a better one downstairs. I should start doing that again. You should try their album Pornography it isn’t quite as good though, in my opinion. It is similar, however.

Anonymous 09/07/23 (Thu) 03:08:15 AM No. 320063

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>>319935
I don't hate The Smiths but Moz makes me laugh because he really does embody picrel so much except it's "angry old very gay man". People just find particular voices grating sometimes, for me I can't stand Lana Del Rey's voice at all

Anonymous 09/08/23 (Fri) 06:50:29 AM No. 320227

>>319997
ayrt when I listen to the cure I do what >>320005 does and dance around my house kek but I also like to play disintegration while driving places alone. I gave a few other well known goth bands a try too and so far didn't enjoy any as much as the cure.

Anonymous 09/09/23 (Sat) 01:59:37 AM No. 320340

Why is it so easy for people to put female artists against each other? Saw some people on Rate your Music talking about all female Japanese math rock band Paranoid Void by comparing them to… another mostly female Japanese math rock band, tricot, and saying “they deserve all of tricot’s fame.” There’s no reason to compare these bands as paranoid void make instrumental math rock and tricot make poppy math rock. The only thing they have in common is the demographic of being Japanese women. It’s such a transparent way to pit women against each other when you can just listen to both.

Japan has a huge number of female bands for some reason, so there’s plenty of room to appreciate them. Paranoid void, tricot, lovebites, ars nova, and bandmaid fit into this description but they’re musically very different. It’s like comparing Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush because they’re solo female singer songwriters.

Anonymous 09/09/23 (Sat) 03:12:12 AM No. 320347

>>320340
I've seen people on youtube comparing babymetal and band-maid and actually having arguments over who is better and more skilled/talented and who deserves the fame more…as if they don't sound nothing alike to begin with.

Anonymous 09/09/23 (Sat) 03:17:01 AM No. 320349

Personally, something that's really pissing me off in music circles is the defending of electronic music/edm and DJs and pretending they have real talent compared to someone who can actually play a real instrument or can sing or can write music and understands music theory. The sound of most edm/electronic music out there screams lack of talent and understanding of music kek.

Anonymous 09/09/23 (Sat) 04:32:00 AM No. 320355

>>320349
I think making EDM music has a high skill floor and most people who do it are mediocre for that reason.

Anonymous 09/10/23 (Sun) 04:02:41 AM No. 320559

>>320349
this is not the 80s anymore, get out with that "electronic is not trve music" bullshit

Anonymous 09/11/23 (Mon) 03:18:49 PM No. 320757

>>320349

It's better in some genres than others, but I do think that the repetitive nature of some EDM limits the amount of interesting music theory stuff you can do. There's a lot more focus on timbre, structure, and sound design than on more complex harmonic structures, going beyond 4/4 is rare. And because enjoying EDM live has to do with DJs, who need to make your music blend in with other tracks from other artists, there's not much incentive to go beyond the BPM and time signature standard to your genre. But I'm sure as with every genre there are more experimental and advanced people making music meant to be listened to in your home.

Is anyone else really picky about music and cowriters? Nowadays I just don't want to put up with having a song that has the singer on it and then three other dudes as cowriters. I'm way more interested in music that's written entirely by a band or by just one solo songwriter. It's disappointing to get into an artist only to find out what you really liked was their cowriter and not them.

Anonymous 09/11/23 (Mon) 08:54:58 PM No. 320801

>>319768
I wasn't expecting to see Visual Kei being mentioned here, I was obsessed with vk bands back in the day when I was a teen, and The Gazette was one of my favourites. Recently I've been rediscovering the bands I used to listen to, perhaps you could enjoy some of them, too, nonna? Versailles, Phantasmagoria (I can't stop listening to "Eternal Silence" on repeat kek), and DELUHI are really great!

Also, I used to be crazy for An Cafe, too, but I find it a bit embarrassing to admit it lol.

>maximum the hormone
Koi No Mega Lover and Kuso breakin' Nou breakin' Lily are some of my favourites songs for working out on warm days kek

Anonymous 09/12/23 (Tue) 02:25:24 AM No. 320813

Nonnies I need some recommendations! I'm on the look for trip hop songs/artists that're moody, dark but not boring. I love DJ Shadow and Unkle if that helps. massive attack is okay and portishead is not my vibe at all

Anonymous 09/12/23 (Tue) 03:25:25 AM No. 320819

I've recently discovered Pleasantries and I really like his music.
Drink to Me is a really good song.

Anonymous 09/12/23 (Tue) 09:08:44 AM No. 320856

>>320757
Atyrt, I enjoy some electropop, synth pop, and electronic rock. But pure electronic stuff isn't for me.

Anonymous 09/14/23 (Thu) 10:31:56 AM No. 321326

>>320801
ayrt I listen to versailles occasionally already, looked up the other bands and gave them a listen. I really like deluhi too, they remind me a lot of some western screamo bands I used to listen to.
kek yeah maximum the hormone makes some good workout music, too bad they don't seem to tour outside japan since they'd be fun to see live.

Anonymous 09/17/23 (Sun) 01:50:33 PM No. 321946

where do i request for a song i don't remember the name

Anonymous 09/26/23 (Tue) 07:28:07 PM No. 323664

>>321946
Don't know if you ever found the thread, but here you go, anon: >>>/ot/1561582

Anonymous 10/01/23 (Sun) 02:59:30 PM No. 324701

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I come back to this album every few years because of the production and Trent Reznor's bitchy moody voice.

Anonymous 12/01/23 (Fri) 12:32:44 AM No. 339069

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Spotify wrapped anyone?

Anonymous 12/01/23 (Fri) 01:05:33 AM No. 339071

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>>339069
Here's mine.

Anonymous 12/01/23 (Fri) 01:11:17 AM No. 339072

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>>339069
I know, zoomer trash. I can’t help it.

Anonymous 12/01/23 (Fri) 01:13:02 AM No. 339073

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>>339069
mine is basically the same every year

Anonymous 12/01/23 (Fri) 01:27:48 AM No. 339074

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>>339073
Stereolab was my #1 too!

Anonymous 12/01/23 (Fri) 04:19:05 AM No. 339091

I live in Japan and go to multiple metalcore/melodeath/nucore concerts every month. I love it because they don’t cry about trannies or BIPOCS or other shit between songs or on their social media. It’s purely music on stage. I love not having to separate art from artist.

>>320340
I feel so bad for Japanese girl bands. I have been to Nemophila, Gacharic Spin, Bridear, and Mary’s Blood concerts. The audience is almost entirely middle aged men.

Anonymous 12/01/23 (Fri) 05:20:42 AM No. 339098

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>>339069
somehow vocaloid ends up being my top genre every fucking year

Anonymous 12/01/23 (Fri) 05:08:19 PM No. 339163

>>339071
Based fellow starset enjoyer. I see you like slipknot as well. Good taste.

Anonymous 12/01/23 (Fri) 05:27:29 PM No. 339166

>>339091
I'm a bit of a metalcore fan and I'm jealous ngl

Anonymous 12/02/23 (Sat) 03:32:19 AM No. 339288

>>339166
What bands do you like? I only got into it big time last year. Myself I don’t really like the modern sound like Invent Animate and Polaris. I love Sable Hills, Crystal Lake, Phinehas, Issues, Dying Wish, Paledusk…the list goes on. And more meathead moid beatdown stuff like Kublai Khan.

Anonymous 12/02/23 (Sat) 04:20:53 PM No. 339362

Recently 3(!) members of my favourite visual kei bands died, so I decided that I have to start going to concerts in order to not feel even more regret.
In spring Dir en Grey is coming to my country, so I thought I'm gonna go no matter what, despite being alone. Turns out the city they'll perform in is 10 hours away from there I live, on a work day…

I also tried checking out concerts in my city, especially of female bands, but it's all just either big pop musicians or rock/metal cover bands, like I saw at least 10 Rammstein copycats. And the only female artists are fat middle-aged ladies calling themselves some name with "chicks" and also only cover Aerosmith or similar old classics.

I don't have any social media so I have no idea about that, but do smaller more alternative acts sell their tickets via other sites (meaning not ticketmaster or eventim) or does such a scene simply not exist there I live? I really have no clue where to start

Anonymous 12/03/23 (Sun) 12:08:36 PM No. 339546

>>320813
Death in Vegas, Tricky, Lamb, some stuff from Sneaker Pimps, and maybe Hooverphonic as well. I love Unkle too anon, but I'm very surprised you don't like Portishead

Anonymous 12/10/23 (Sun) 09:51:15 PM No. 341134

What are your top albums for 2023? I’m looking for more stuff to listen to. I’ve been trying to get into Mitski’s new release (the land is inhospitable) but it’s very ballad-y. Some of the tracks have been cool, like My Love Mine All Mine, but I really can’t click with Mitski for some reason. I prefer music that’s more melodic and her stuff seems very atmospheric.

I wasn’t really into the new boygenius album either. Maybe indie sad girls just aren’t for me.

Anonymous 12/10/23 (Sun) 10:05:57 PM No. 341138

>>339362
If there are small venues in your town yeah they might post their show lineups on instagram and I have no clue outside of that (maybe if they have their own website?)

Otherwise I find out about any and all artists coming to my town (or any location I input) by using the website songkick? Works for bigger and smaller artists and it's very passive for me (I get emailed relevant show alerts once in a while).

Anonymous 12/10/23 (Sun) 10:20:11 PM No. 341139

>>339362
I've had success with bandsintown, but I'm an amerifag so ymmv if you're outside of the US or Europe.

Anonymous 12/11/23 (Mon) 01:08:33 AM No. 341161

>>341134
Do you mean released in 2023? If so:
Babymetal-the other one
Cattle decapitation- terrasite, still not used to it though since I've only got a chance to listen to it only once. But lots of good songs caught my attention.

Anonymous 12/11/23 (Mon) 01:52:44 AM No. 341172

>>341134
Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival (female vocalist, check ‘em out frens)
Periphery: Periphery V Djent is Not a Genre

Anonymous 12/11/23 (Mon) 12:45:42 PM No. 341242

>>341134
Just to name a few:

Art School Girlfriend - Soft Landing
Susanne Sundfor - Blomi
Alan Palomo - World Of Hassle
Kelela - Raven
Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner (it's quite dreamy and lush but very melodic, you might like this one OP)
Death and Vanilla - Flicker
Tennis - Pollen (lots of great melodies and instrumentation here)

Anonymous 12/15/23 (Fri) 09:32:33 AM No. 342414

>>339071
Based KISS fan. My favourite album is Hotter than Hell and I love Parasite and Strutter

Anonymous 09/15/24 (Sun) 07:29:57 PM No. 415725

I don’t understand the appeal of Chappell Roan’s music. I’ve listened to Feminineomenom, Hot to Go, and Good Luck Babe, but it sounds like second rate pop music to me. I love pop, but her songs aren’t very hooky and the production is very standard and boring. Am I missing something?

Anonymous 09/15/24 (Sun) 11:24:03 PM No. 415769

>>415725
its music made for spicy straight people and that's really the only explanation i can think of.

Anonymous 09/18/24 (Wed) 04:33:25 PM No. 416340

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The Weeknd is apparently not going to release albums under the name “Weeknd” any more, just as Abel Tesfaye. I wonder if he’s trying to cultivate a new aesthetic so his fans won’t constantly ask him to go back to the Trilogy dark r&b sound when he clearly just wants to make 80s synth pop (and it’s what audiences want too). His new single is yet another light synth pop song.

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 04:28:55 AM No. 416464

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>>415769
you might be right

Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 01:39:34 AM No. 416762

>>416464
Her popularity really shows the growing power of the spicy straight demographic. I was think Chappell must really love men because her shoes always open with a drag queen, and drag queens are almost always men. So it’s highly unlikely a woman artist will open a Chappell Roan show.

Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 07:06:05 PM No. 417336

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The New Katy Perry album is baffling. I thought she’d at least make some bangers with Dr. Luke but it’s so boring. What happened to her? She had good self written songs on One of the Boys. Even Witness without Dr. Luke had some good songs. I think she’s gotten lazy, out of touch, and desperate for a hit. It’s sad to see someone who had so many fun hits fall so hard.

Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 03:59:01 AM No. 417421

clairo's music is awful. mitski but worse

Anonymous 09/23/24 (Mon) 08:51:44 PM No. 417850

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So the duet from Gaga and Bruno Mars displaced zoomer favorites Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter. Does Gaga’s comeback have a chance? Is it nostalgia for 2010s pop? It’s a good song but I am surprised it is so popular.

Anonymous 09/23/24 (Mon) 09:09:02 PM No. 417854

>>417850
Praying for the Gaga comeback to be amazing. I'm not super into her newer stuff, so I was hoping for more of her earlier pop, but this song is nice.

Anonymous 09/23/24 (Mon) 11:09:08 PM No. 417881

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>>417854
She’s releasing her lead single next month, let’s hope she actually delivers. I liked some Chromatica songs but it felt like her heart wasn’t it. I want to believe she can still make a killer album.

Anonymous 09/23/24 (Mon) 11:56:02 PM No. 417890

>>417336
Imo, her best songs are the ones that have rock orientated instrumentation like waking up in vegas and i kissed a girl. I just think most of her pop stuff was always going to be bland sounding eventually.
>>341134
A year late, but i love sperging about music so much.
Eartheater - Powders was the only newer album i really listened to a lot from 2023. Right now, i am eagerly waiting for the new FKA twigs album.

Anonymous 09/23/24 (Mon) 11:57:49 PM No. 417891

Anyone here into everything everything? Their new (came out march first but I'm only listening to it now) album is an absolute banger.

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 02:01:32 AM No. 418517

>>417891
No, but I’ll check them out. nonnies always have such interesting recommendations here

>>417890
How did you feel about fka twigs eusexua? I think I need more listens to get it, I usually like her stuff but this one went over my head a little. Also agree on Katy Perry’s more rock stuff. One of the Boys was a good one from her. But rock seems unpopular for female pop artists. Lot of artists who could do a good rock album like Lady Gaga and even Taylor Swift refuse to touch the genre except for a handful of tracks in their career.

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 02:58:07 AM No. 418521

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I really enjoyed Cassyette's album 'This World Fucking Sucks'. Looove her screams, I love female rock singers.

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 03:02:38 AM No. 418524

Also Linkin Park's new singer Emily Armstrong is amazing. Listening to their latest single gives me goosebumps and I can't wait for the album to drop (sometime in November?).
Seriously, she screams for like 17 seconds straight in this. No wonder she and the band took up half the screentime for the League of Legends championship animated MV. All the scrotes were malding in the comments KEK.

Anonymous 09/30/24 (Mon) 07:13:40 PM No. 419683

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Lady Gaga released an album of covers for the Joker movie. More of her jazz and traditional pop music stuff. She sounds good but like she has a cold sometimes. I'm glad she's having fun with it and does her little jazz projects that aren't gonna be commercially successful. I didn't like either of the two songs she wrote for it but maybe they'll grow on me. I did like the rock version of the Joker so I'm holding out hope she'll keep that direction for the new album.

Anonymous 10/01/24 (Tue) 02:45:13 AM No. 419775

>>418517
Rock is in a really horrible slump right now, i don't think a lot of artists would ever consider taking the risk touching it even if they could potentially make the record of the career from it. That's why i don't really rely on mainstream pop stars much for being supplied with great body of works, i only stick to singles. I felt the same way upon my first few listens of eusexua. the fact that the music video had another song spliced into it kind of threw me off, so listening to the official single on spotify was the way to go. I actually like it a lot, i am a huge fan of Magdalene and the song indicated that she will continue in that direction, so i am incredibly excited for her new album. I also liked the single with two shell called talk to me, it had to grow on me. There's also a version that is more emotional with pinkpantheress which i think is the first version of the song, but it's £1,000 on bandcamp for some insane reason. Apparently you could buy it for £1 at one point but idk what kind of stunt they are pulling.

To throw in a recommendation for some music, i've been obsessed with lafawndah lately, this particular song is incredibly reminiscent of bjork. Just incase you google her, she nuked her instagram because she is in a new project, i haven't really looked into it though. Also thought to recommend more music by female artists:
Rozie Ramati - Blank page
Purient - memories (Eartheater remix)
Yseult - Suicide
Kiss Facility - Black stone (listen to the whole esoteric ep, it's so good)
Kida - His Altar of Silence

Anonymous 10/01/24 (Tue) 02:49:49 AM No. 419776

>>419775
I feel like i need to elaborate on the rock comment, but i don't mean record of their career commercial wise, rather creatively. I think the genre suffers heavily by now being a genre helmed by older men and no longer having much young people with something different to offer.

>>418524
Picking her was a good decision since it didn't feel like they were trying to recreate what they had with Chester Bennington, it feels like they are doing something new and fresh.

Anonymous 10/01/24 (Tue) 06:22:23 AM No. 419799

>>419683
I can't wait for her new album. The snippets she revealed in Paris sounded so good (obsessed with the "I've become a notorious being" one) and I hope that's the style for most of the album.
This companion album sounded ok. I like both the Joker cover and Happy Mistakes. The jazzy songs are nice, not something I'd listen to often but she's technically very skilled in that and it's good to hear. I agree that she sounds nasal at times but that's been her style of singing for a while.

Anonymous 10/01/24 (Tue) 12:09:22 PM No. 419851

Nonnies do you ever go to concerts during the middle of the week? It seems inconvenient for me but an artist I like is performing an hour away on a Wednesday

Anonymous 10/01/24 (Tue) 01:49:24 PM No. 419864

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>>419799
>>419683
I'm so happy to see that other nonnas are also hype for the new album. Her last chromatica was good but you could tell that she didn't had much inspiration and passion for it. 911 not being a hit is still a shame imo, I love this song so much. But the vibe is so different this time around and I'm glad that her song with bruno mars and the the jazz joker album are well received. I also feel like the visuals for the new era will be great as well. Can't wait for whatever single she will drop this month as an album teaser.

>>419851
YES! I live for concerts and when I really, really want to see an artist or band, then I go even during the week. I always try to get a day off the next day, but even when I do not get it I still go because having a chance to see your fave live is so magical (and arrive at work the next day with lack of sleep kek). Do it nonna, you will hate it when you don't go. I even traveled to other countries to see artists and bands live, always have been worth the hassle.

Anonymous 10/01/24 (Tue) 05:23:50 PM No. 419895

>>415725
Only Good Luck Babe is good.
Hot to Go got turned into a meme song which is why I think it gained any sort of relevancy. There's one other song of hers I actually think was good, I only heeard it becaause of spotify and was surprised, I just don't remember the name of the song rn.

Anonymous 10/01/24 (Tue) 11:08:34 PM No. 419965

>>419864
> Her last chromatica was good but you could tell that she didn't had much inspiration and passion for it
I thought she was gonna quit music to go full time into acting after Chromatica. Her heart didn’t seem in it and she was using more outside songwriters than ever before. It’s encouraging she has two original songs on the Harlequin soundtrack, hopefully she got the fire for writing music back!

>>419851
I go to concerts on weekdays a lot because visits to my location usually happen on weird dates (if they happen at all), but I don’t mind. Stay hydrated through the night and go straight to bed when you get back. If you want and are able to, take the next day off. Who do you want to see?

>>419776
Even all female rock bands tend to have mostly male audiences. I know Mitski did indie rock for one of her albums and she has a big young female audience but I think she stopped that whole style for her recent audiences. It makes me sad because I’d love to have more young women making rock music but I guess it’s how it all played out.

Anonymous 10/01/24 (Tue) 11:47:00 PM No. 419982

>>419965
Kishi Bashi

Anonymous 10/02/24 (Wed) 09:59:41 AM No. 420057

>>419965
>Her heart didn’t seem in it and she was using more outside songwriters than ever before
Yeah, maybe she had a couple of ideas but that "era" was destroyed by covid as well. It felt like she was influenced by her producer a lot (she said this in concerts too) and the by fact that the retro dance style was in vogue when it came out. The Stupid Love video wasn't great even quality-wise because iirc she had to have iphone as sponsor so it was shot on an iphone. She really came around a bit later for 911 (which I think is great) and the Chromatica Ball, you can see that her vision changed a lot there and became something more personal. We're getting a single this month and I can't wait!

Anonymous 10/06/24 (Sun) 06:30:28 PM No. 421264

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Tired of the constant SOPHIE dicksucking. His debut EP and album were really not that great and his music with Charli XCX was okay and only some of it was even released. Everyone talks about how influential he was but nobody can name a good song by him. Even when I was a handmaiden I thought that “it’s okay to cry” song was ass.

Anonymous 10/06/24 (Sun) 06:33:33 PM No. 421267

>>421264
She looks grossed out and is holding him so reluctantly. I bet he smelled bad.

Anonymous 10/06/24 (Sun) 07:31:52 PM No. 421282

>>421264
Makes me glad I don't like this kind of music. While they have plenty of their own issues, I doubt I'm ever going to see the kind of alternative rock scrotes I listen to dickride this Literal Who dead troon. Or any of the rappers I like, for that matter. It's mostly faghags and EDM dorks trying to virtue-signal about "Sophie," online. Carrot-top-looking-ass.

Anonymous 10/13/24 (Sun) 07:58:27 PM No. 423905

What kind of music is this? How can I find more of this on spotify?

Anonymous 10/14/24 (Mon) 01:31:45 AM No. 424001

>>423905
There's a tracklist in the comments and a lot of keywords in the description you could look up?
Might not be on Spotify though cause old foreign label.

Anonymous 10/14/24 (Mon) 10:08:02 AM No. 424096

Any nonnies still use last.fm? Maybe we could post our 5x5 recent/top albums

Anonymous 10/15/24 (Tue) 05:37:24 PM No. 424511

>>424096
All my top stuff is just video game soundtracks and dreamwave that I fall asleep too.
The new Rufus Du Sol album was good.

Anonymous 10/15/24 (Tue) 05:49:05 PM No. 424521

>>424096
Yeah I do. There's a topsters thread

Anonymous 10/17/24 (Thu) 03:36:31 PM No. 424950

>>419851
honestly I prefer concerts in the middle of the week because it's easier to ask off work for them. It also seems that the crowds are more chill instead of the partying people that are just looking for something to do on a weekend, which for me is a plus but maybe it'd be a downside and would kill the vibe for some genres

Anonymous 10/22/24 (Tue) 06:24:05 PM No. 426253

I was literally just thinking about how Sabrina Carpenter's music is some of the blandest pop music I've ever heard. When I hear a song of hers I can't even tell which one it is right away because they all sound the same, then I saw this video, her song espresso is made with a royalty free guitar loop

Anonymous 10/23/24 (Wed) 03:11:10 AM No. 426415

>>426253
I'm still a little mystified as to who her target audience is meant to be. Unrelated but was listening to vidrel as it's a guilty pleasure of mine and I was wondering if "bicore" could ever exist as a music genre? Not like troon music shit but stuff like this and I Kissed a Girl.

Anonymous 10/23/24 (Wed) 11:11:37 AM No. 426496

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Lady Gaga will release her new single on the 25th and it's called Disease. I must say I like that she didn't push the release date due to the Joker 2 flop (in which she wasn't the worst thing, but you know artists are quick to back out when they have a flop) and so far I like the general aesthetic that she's going for. Some say this is the Abracadabra song that was teased in Paris and a couple of leakers are saying it's something similar to Paparazzi or Government Hooker and Scheibe. I wish it's something crazy and experimental because her safe pop songs aren't the best imo.

Anonymous 10/23/24 (Wed) 05:54:13 PM No. 426545

>>426496
I'M SO HYPE FOR THIS!
The the music of the ten second clip of her running in front of the car sounds already amazing. Friday can't come fast enough!

Anonymous 10/23/24 (Wed) 06:30:01 PM No. 426549

>>319718
Modern music is such trash. It used to be amazing. I'm not even saying this as a boomer, its just true, there used to be more rock influence in the late 90s and early 2000s for example. Back then everything was solid gold. Now music just reminds me of the cheap soulless crap i see in dollar general and walmart.

Anonymous 10/25/24 (Fri) 06:24:21 AM No. 426946

I don't even care much about her cause her music isn't my taste but lyrically this song feels very straight to me. Is it mostly fictionalised or something? It would be unlikely for a woman to continue to pursue another woman after she was publicly turned down. That's moid behaviour for sure. But then again, what reason would a man have to hide pics of his gf unless they were nudes? Maybe I'm overanalysing.

Anonymous 10/27/24 (Sun) 06:49:31 AM No. 427483

Discovered this nice vocaloid song with like 5 views on youtube. I like this new thing youtube has been doing where it sometimes recommends a YouTube video with like 4 views, it's nice.

Anonymous 11/04/24 (Mon) 11:06:59 PM No. 429639

Thoughts on Sevdaliza's current stuff? This one is really good but the one with Pablo Vittar (Brazilian tranny) sucks major ass. His voice is genuinely ugly btw and it's so obvious that he's some kind of industry plant or diversity hire.

Anonymous 11/05/24 (Tue) 05:51:04 PM No. 429798

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I found it legitimately offensive when she said she's "your favorite artist's favorite artist".

Anonymous 11/05/24 (Tue) 06:53:26 PM No. 429806

>>429798
Lmao my favorite artist died before she was even conceived. Narcissist bitch

Anonymous 11/09/24 (Sat) 03:53:15 AM No. 430699

Music understander nonas… what the fuck is going on here?

Anonymous 11/09/24 (Sat) 07:03:56 AM No. 430742

>>430699
i don't understand shit about music but this is simply a noise/industrial music liveshow, or do you think that the light effects are confusing?

Anonymous 11/09/24 (Sat) 07:47:14 AM No. 430754

>>430742
I've listened to noise before, but it's always had some structure. That video just sounds like the machine broke. But well, just because I don't understand it doesn't mean it's not valuable art.

Anonymous 11/09/24 (Sat) 08:03:08 AM No. 430757

>>430742
>>430754
NTA but could someone please explain how noise music works, what the appeal is, etc.?

Anonymous 11/09/24 (Sat) 02:26:14 PM No. 430814

>>430757
>how noise music works
essentially it's just noise or "unconventional"/"unwanted" sounds arranged by the performer how they'd like it to be, the difference from conventional music is that you're experimenting more and that there's no strict ban on unpleasant sounds of any kind.
>what the appeal is
i don't know kek, personally i just like it because it's mostly heavily abstract. other people like it for the texture (hnw enjoyers) / storytelling (power electronics/death industrial/black noise) / experimentation freedom (not all noise music is experimental, but it often is)

>>430754
>That video just sounds like the machine broke
broken (or circuit-bent) machines and power starved electronics can be part of the performance/recording for sure, adding to the experimental stuff of it.

Anonymous 11/11/24 (Mon) 04:36:33 PM No. 431421

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Thoughts on the new Geordie Greep album nonnas? I don't listen to new music often and I didn't really care for black midi but this was a pleasant surprise, I like how theatral it is.

Anonymous 11/12/24 (Tue) 02:19:03 AM No. 431564

>>430757
Someone gave a good answer already but I am quite into some subgenres of noise so thought I'd share my opinion. I listen to mostly power electronics, death industrial & such. I like it because of how it creates a textured and interesting soundscape, the storytelling like the other anon said through the use of samples, and I also like art that deals with transgressive themes which is particularly common in the power electronics subset of noise where a lot of artists talk about suicide, murder, pedophilia, war, perversion & paraphilia, so on and whatever. I think that pure noise can convey emotion very well, on a visceral level that music with lyrics, a conventional structure, and a focus on just "sounding good" can't do in the same way. Negative emotions and experiences are ugly and need an ugly outlet. I hate shitty mass-circulated quotes like this but a lot of fringe corners of noise music are a good example of art disturbing the comforted and comforting the disturbed.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 07:58:39 PM No. 433273

>>431421
Listening rn and really enjoying it. This isn't black midi though, it's not even midi.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 08:00:08 PM No. 433274

>>433273
>>431421
Oh my GOD I'm retarded KEK he was from Black Midi!

Anonymous 12/01/24 (Sun) 12:47:34 AM No. 437117

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Ugh I have no idea where else to post this on here so here it goes. Nonas I wanna make music. However I am an aesthete and writer, I am incapable of doing the production side of things. I want to make music with ethereal synths to match my vision. I figured I would try here bc ideally I’d like to do a project with a female instead of a moid, so I don’t wanna ask on reddit or anything. Any nonas capable of playing around with music who would wanna do something together?

Anonymous 12/01/24 (Sun) 08:23:37 AM No. 437180

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I'm glad everyone's starting to forget about chappell roan cause I've barely heard anyone talk about her in awhile, not even reference her as a meme.

Anonymous 12/01/24 (Sun) 08:26:26 AM No. 437181

>>437180
i wish it was coming sooner because i still hear about her quite a bit. can't stand her. she seems to have rapidly become uncool by the younger generation standards at least. i remember seeing on some horrible talk show like jimmy fallon or something the middle aged stagehands were like "omg chappell roan, i hope she plays hot to go!" and i knew it was over for her.

Anonymous 12/01/24 (Sun) 09:42:13 AM No. 437194

I’m an obsessive classical music dork and am so sad I currently have no one to currently sperg out about music with. My local symphony also sucks and our so called opera company would be better off if it didn’t exist. Some of the others in the state are of the finest in the world but this is a very very big state so I can’t simply skip on down to Houston to see the Houston Grand as a filthy poor on a regular basis.

I love music and listen to a wide variety of genres (I think) but I’ve become pretty stagnant in the last decade or so and haven’t really listened to any new or new to me artists. I listen mostly to classical music and artists I’ve listened to forever. Unfortunately (fortunately?) I’ve always been a weird dork and my first favorite band as a child was Fleetwood Mac and I still love them so it’s been wild to see them have a resurgence with people my age and younger the last few years. Other favorites are Joanna Newsom, Bright Eyes, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, of Montreal pre 2016, boygenius (they’re at their best together!!!), and I quite enjoy Kendrick Lamar.

Idk what the point of this post is. I guess I need some recommendations and am all ears.

Anonymous 12/01/24 (Sun) 12:00:50 PM No. 437221

>>437194
Nonna, we are so similar. Do you like foreign language music? Not related to that, do you like Agnes Øbel? Tell me some of your favorite classical composers and pieces too, I’m an opera singer nonna and I love sperging about opera. Especially Verdi.

Anonymous 12/04/24 (Wed) 08:39:53 PM No. 438191

>>437221
I’ve never heard of Agnes Øbel and google isn’t helping lmao. I’m definitely not opposed to foreign language music - one of my all time favorite pieces is Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen! My favorite composers are probably Brahms, Beethoven, and Mahler because I like heavy romanticism but strict classical structure. I could listen to the Brahms symphonies on loop forever. Notably none of them were known for opera (we’ll just ignore Fidelio lmao) but my taste in opera is all over the place. Verdi is always such a treat, I saw a spectacular production of Rigoletto a few years ago and it was one of the best performances I’ve ever been to in my life. For a few years I was straight up obsessed with Peter Grimes but that’s the only English language opera I can think of that I really enjoy. The last opera I played in the pit for before changing careers was Donizetti's Don Pasquale and it was so freaking fun.

What about you, anon?

Anonymous 12/04/24 (Wed) 09:06:33 PM No. 438200

>>437194
I'm an opera and classical music enthusiast, I have been for over a decade. I love opera, I used to be obsessed with it, now it's more of a casual interest but I still love it. my local opera company is not great either, they only do 3 operas a year and they will usually do 2 that have been done a million times (la boheme, carmen, traviata, magic flute) and then 1 that's some extremely obscure opera, sometimes local. I for one am obsessed with wagner, he's probably my favorite. I would have loved to be involved with music, unfortunately that never happened for me. I am really thankful for the met opera's live transmissions. I wanna see parsifal live someday, it's my dream

Anonymous 12/04/24 (Wed) 09:08:32 PM No. 438201

>>438200
How would you rank the operas in the Ring Cycle?

Anonymous 12/06/24 (Fri) 12:11:25 PM No. 438554

>>437194
PJ Harvey, Bjork/The Sugarcubes, Anita Lane, Weyes Blood, Chairlift

Anonymous 12/08/24 (Sun) 07:51:30 AM No. 439005

>>438201
It has been a very long time since I've listened to those, but I would have to say my favorite is the third one, Siegfried. It has the most exciting parts in it for me like when Siegfried slays the dragon and becomes powerful, also the dragon can look really interesting depending on how they choose to portray it on stage. The music at the end when Brunnhilde wakes up (Heil dir, Sonne!) gives me chills. I'm gonna say my second favorite is probably the last one. After that Die Walkure, which has some really good parts in it but there's a lot of long conversations with Brunnhilde and her dad. Das Rheingold is honestly kind of boring in my opinion, not very much happens.