Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by garethom » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:31 pm

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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by magma » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:32 pm

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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by wolf89 » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:32 pm

garethom wrote:Lana Del Rey's album is sick mag! .
I've always felt that she's too manufactured. Like it's trying really hard to sound authentic and deep when it's really actually just doing it for marketing purposes. I dunno I just can't remotely get anything out of it. I guess Videogames is nicely arranged with a nice melody and all and the orchestral part is cool but then the lyrics are toilet. I'm not saying she's totally awful or anything and it is better than a lot of pop out ther but most of her music just feels shallow but in a way that won't admit it is which doesn't work for me as well as just being straight unapologetic pop
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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by garethom » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:34 pm

Yeah, I put off listening to her for a while because I thought like that. Then I heard another tune, other than Videogames, and checked her album, so good. Proves as well that I'm not put off by a tumblr-ish image ;)

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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by hubb » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:34 pm

None of the posted is actually GOOD though. It's acceptable but not good in the way that Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder or Dionne Warwick did popular music.

(....-ish)

Haven't listened to Lana del Ray tbh.
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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by garethom » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:35 pm

hubb wrote:None of the posted is actually GOOD though. It's acceptable but not good in the way that Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder or Dionne Warwick did popular music.
Shock as music fan claims music "not as good as olden days". More at ten.

But seriously, it is good. I've liked most of the good tunes in here.

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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by Riddles » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:36 pm

hubb wrote:None of the posted is actually GOOD though. It's acceptable but not good in the way that Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder or Dionne Warwick did popular music.
I'd disagree to be honest. If you look at the best of what these did (which is what people do in hindsight) then yeah, not many can compete, but those guys put out a fair bit of "meh" too.
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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by Riddles » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:37 pm


Good. Great instrumental, catchy vocals.


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Post by hubb » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:40 pm

I'll check it out properly then..

But I mean Bruno Mars, he is good/talented and all, but it's just so regurgitated a sound. I don't think Justin suffers from that because of the production on a lot of his tracks but then again he can't sing. Same Pharrel. Opposite really with someone like Alicia Keys she can sing but has never made a good song.

future is one guy that is terribly commercial that i think bring something new, but its' so far between. A lot of it is still based on motown. Sam smith, tinashe and frank ocean are kind of decent.
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Post by magma » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:42 pm

GOOD (maybe even the best of her career) :


BAD:

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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by dickman69 » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:46 pm

half of these are way older than 5 years...

Good:


Bad:
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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by garethom » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:47 pm

Oh fucking hell, Example man. Baffled at how any marketing team has managed to give that man a successful pop career. His face looks like the dregs in a pot noodle cup.

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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by Muncey » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:48 pm

Best del rey song:



Bad:



Song gives me a migraine.. I'm convinced she has learning difficulties. I also really wish she ends up in a horrific car accident.

That song ruined my summer a year ago when it was being played 20,000 times a day on R1 and I was forced to listen to it at work.

You can also add in any song that became famous either through youtube (that fox song) or ended up as a youtube dance craze every tnuc and their dog did (harlem shake/gangnam style).
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Post by Forum » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:48 pm

southstar wrote:Kelis - Acapella was decent, not sure how old it is
Actually no, I just listened back to that and the production is shit
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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by garethom » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:49 pm

Muncey wrote:Best del rey song:
Yeah Muncey, I agree, couldn't remember the name of the tune though! :4:

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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by Nihilism » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:54 pm

Agent 47 wrote:big ups on lana, shes sick

1 i like
I think everyone loved that song because it sounded like a dubstep b2b uk garage song. Including myself. :lol:

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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by dickman69 » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:57 pm

just realized the worst ever pop music is Macklemore - Can't Hold Us
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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by magma » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:58 pm

garethom wrote:Oh fucking hell, Example man. Baffled at how any marketing team has managed to give that man a successful pop career.
Sadly, I know a lot of the people involved in exactly that... his pop career was launched by my ex's PR agency. Apparently he's an entirely inconsequential tnuc in real life too, so at least his image is sincere.
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Re: Best/Worst Pop Music of the Last 5 Years

Post by hubb » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:58 pm

:6: horrible



rare


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