Pop/Rap: The top five songs today in these genres are “Strip That Down” by Liam Payne Featuring Quavo, “Slow Hands” by Niall Horan, “Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swift, “Attention” Charlie Puth, and “Feel It Still” by Portugal. The Man. Because these two genres are close to each other, today I decided to mix them in. Not surprising to anyone, most of these songs are either about sex or break-ups. Rarely will you find yourself listening to actual uplifting POP songs. If you do, it is typically the exception and not the rule. For the songs that are positive, they are usually influenced from disco and funk. Such as Nile Rodgers; he influences those POPPY songs today and sometimes actually works with them.
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Rock/Metal: Rock and Metal don’t have billboard top 5 songs at all. It’s just simply popular. I’ve noticed that people prefer rock and metal over the pop and rap scene. You don’t hear many new rock songs today because they, along with metalhead, are all trying to get noticed in your local scene. With these artists arising, there will only be a few who go up in charts for getting online recognition instead of the bands performing. That’s what I have noticed through my music exploration. These songs can range from sad, mad, to up lifting. Rock usually focuses on more sad and happy tunes, whereas metal does more depressing topics.
Since we’re in a world of sadness, we feel comfortable with metal, yet uncomfortable by the way it sounds. No matter what, they will be out there to help others and portray sadness and anger so well that we feel connected to their music. Pop and rap music is really well made, but it often comes across sounding fake and robotic. It is difficult to feel sad through a poppy upbeat song. The emotions clash. There are occasions that I have heard some of that music is really well made, and I can appreciate how these musicians portray their feeling to others; sharing their emotions in order to connects to their audience. These two genres are very similar, but they are different in many ways through their output to others.
-Terran Freeman
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