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Artists like Sara Bareilles, Jason Mraz, Michael Bublé, Charlie Puth, Colbie Caillat, Christina Perri, CeeLo Green, and Shawn Mendes all incorporated soul, pop rock, and folk into their music. Throughout the 2010s, hip hop music grew as a genre.
- Coldplay, “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall” “I turn the music up/I got my records on/I shut the world outside until the lights come on,” sings Chris Martin, offering music as succor at a time when the economy was in the tank and the world was looking bleak.
- Bryson Tiller, “Exchange” The trap-soul crooner’s signature ballad unfolds like an illusion. The deceptively sweet song utilizes a sample of K.P. and Envyi’s “Shorty Swing My Way,” in order to induce a dopamine rush of easy nostalgia, and Tiller’s voice acts like an everyman, both tender and pleading, without ever dipping into virtuosic vocal acrobatics.
- The 1975, “Love It If We Made It” “I’m writing something, and I’m just essentially adding to it every time i get really angry,” Matty Healy said of the 1975’s sparkling goblet of societal bile, “Love It If We Made It.”
- Justin Timberlake, “Mirrors” Timberlake pushed at the limits of his heartthrob image and soul-inheritor sound throughout the decade, most persuasively on the seven-minute “Mirrors,” giving plush R&B crooning a prog-rock redesign thanks to Timbaland’s immaculate production.
- Return of The Pop Deity
- The Rise of Streaming
- Democratised Discovery
- Hip-Hop’s Domination
- The Globalisation of Pop
- A Sea Change in Nashville
- Another British Invasion
- The Return of Boy (and Girl) Groups
- When K-Pop Conquered The World
The past decade has seen the rise of a new pop aristocracy. If one artist towered above the rest it was arguably Lady Gaga, who rose from mere pop star to global multimedia superstar. But she wasn’t the only one: a handful of megastars have ruled the pop landscape throughout the 2010s – Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber – and there’s...
One thing that definitely changed music in the 2010s music is the way fans consumed it. In 2010 you were probably still debating whether to throw your CDs out after ripping the music to iTunes. Spotify was quietly introduced as a streaming platform in 2011, and streaming revenue eventually overtook physical sales in 2017. At the moment, paid stream...
Still, it’s hard to break out via YouTube without a budget, at least enough for a good video cam and some editing chops. It was SoundCloud that democratised the music-making process in the 2010s, making a potential worldwide audience available to anyone with a cheap recording device. In fact, the low-tech nature of SoundCloud played directly into o...
Nearly 40 years since the dawn of hip-hop, the 2010s was finally the decade when rap outsold rock music. The real shocker, however, is that it took so long for this to happen. Hip-hop didn’t overtake rock in sales at the end of the 80s – when everyone you knew had to own a copy of NWA’s Straight Outta Compton and Public Enemy’s Fear Of A Black Plan...
‘Despacito’ was one of the biggest hits of the 2010s, and it exemplified another trend: Latin music’s move into the mainstream. Of course, the definition of Latin music hasn’t necessarily involved pianos, trumpets and congas for decades. Reggaeton and trap are now the state of Spanish-language pop, and the freshest crossovers are coming from Latin ...
Country and hip-hop music have also become unlikely partners – just one of the ways in which country has transformed in the past decade. At the start of the 2010s, slick Nashville country was the only game in town, becoming so pervasive that a pair of veteran country stars, George Strait and Alan Jackson, made a landmark protest song about it with ...
The 2010s was also the decade when the British Empire struck back. The British Invasion has never really let up, and there hasn’t been a time since 1964 when UK artists haven’t been at the international forefront, from Radiohead and Oasis in the 90s, to Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Adele and Radiohead (again) in the 00s. The UK just sends fresh reinfor...
Another phenomenon in 2010s music that never quite went away is the rise of boy/girl bands. Many of the original crop (Hanson, New Kids On The Block, Backstreet Boys) are now passing themselves off as grizzled veterans, while classic-model boy bands continued to flourish in the 2010s. Jonas Brothers were still in their first run of success as the d...
But ‘Gangnam Style’ opened the door for younger K-pop acts to conquer the world, and, in BTS’ case, that came out of a concerted effort to break America. They raised a buzz with a few isolated LA shows in 2014, then came back two years ago for some well-orchestrated TV shows and collaborations with American hip-hop and EDM artists like Chainsmokers...
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If the 2000s birthed streaming, the 2010s revealed its true impact, with a new generation of artists being propelled to the top via dizzying numbers—from Sheeran (who appears 12 times here) to Drake, Dua Lipa, Lewis Capaldi, Dave, and Harry Styles.
Oct 7, 2019 · In the 2010s, technology made creating, distributing, and listening to music easier than at any previous point in history. Producers and artists collaborated through the cloud, mixing styles...
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May 14, 2023 · From Drake’s viral pop-rap to Kendrick Lamar’s protest anthems, these were the defining moments in music in the 2010s | CNN. By Scottie Andrew and Leah Asmelash, CNN. 7 minute read. Published...
Dec 31, 2019 · 103 Days That Shaped Music in the 2010s. The songs and shows and beef and overdue cancellations and heartbreaking losses and so much more. By Vulture Editors.
