I have great news: I'll be DJing on East Village Radio. I'm doing a biweekly show on Saturday afternoons - I'm waiting to find out when the first one will air, but it will probably later this month.
This is brilliant. My personal watershed was hearing trap beats on the soundtrack of Keeping Up With The Kardashians in, I think, 2015, and assuming this was some sound alike rip of Luke Haines' The Spook Manifesto
Was in the weird position starting in 2014 of hearing drill and trap beats literally all day like a background hum because of my work (was teaching high school) and don't remember thinking it was a big deal to hear them start to appear in pop, in fact I think my basic thought hearing something like "Bitch Better Have My Money" was that it wasn't anything special (aside from being a very good Rihanna song).
It's not like there is always a ton of daylight between charting rap and charting pop -- and you find trap beats in plenty of R&B ("Drunk in Love" by Beyoncé isn't quite hard trap but it's close enough). But in hindsight it's interesting to look at 2013 specifically as a year when you *don't* see trap beats comfortably finding a foothold in more pop music even though EDM and dubstep have been pretty well integrated. I was more surprised at how little the bro country, which I always avoided at the time, really doesn't sound very hip compared to what Wallen ends up doing even though you can hear the rap influence.
Just checked out the Rihanna and Beyonce and both sounded like SALEM with R&B vocals because I'd been listening to King Night... talking of witch house the new Purity Ring single 'Many Lives' is like a 2nd wave hyperpop take. Or, like dark Magdalena Bay.
Here's my latest episode of "Radio Not Radio": https://www.mixcloud.com/callinamagician/612025-radio-not-radio/. (I've pitched it to a bigger platform, so we'll see what comes of that.)
I struggle with "Germ." I admire the sentiments, but I'm not sure Nash makes them work musically. The lyrics sound like a series of tweets.
I agree! Think the guitar chug juuuust makes it good enough
I have great news: I'll be DJing on East Village Radio. I'm doing a biweekly show on Saturday afternoons - I'm waiting to find out when the first one will air, but it will probably later this month.
Congratulations!
This is brilliant. My personal watershed was hearing trap beats on the soundtrack of Keeping Up With The Kardashians in, I think, 2015, and assuming this was some sound alike rip of Luke Haines' The Spook Manifesto
Was in the weird position starting in 2014 of hearing drill and trap beats literally all day like a background hum because of my work (was teaching high school) and don't remember thinking it was a big deal to hear them start to appear in pop, in fact I think my basic thought hearing something like "Bitch Better Have My Money" was that it wasn't anything special (aside from being a very good Rihanna song).
It's not like there is always a ton of daylight between charting rap and charting pop -- and you find trap beats in plenty of R&B ("Drunk in Love" by Beyoncé isn't quite hard trap but it's close enough). But in hindsight it's interesting to look at 2013 specifically as a year when you *don't* see trap beats comfortably finding a foothold in more pop music even though EDM and dubstep have been pretty well integrated. I was more surprised at how little the bro country, which I always avoided at the time, really doesn't sound very hip compared to what Wallen ends up doing even though you can hear the rap influence.
the first country I heard aligned with trap was a couple of songs the Pillbox Pattie album Florida in 2023.
Just checked out the Rihanna and Beyonce and both sounded like SALEM with R&B vocals because I'd been listening to King Night... talking of witch house the new Purity Ring single 'Many Lives' is like a 2nd wave hyperpop take. Or, like dark Magdalena Bay.
Trap beats from 2004 UK?
In any case, this is a quality album, and the original version of Superstar by Christine Milton is solid too
https://youtu.be/__WY3eWAEO0?si=fOQSFs0izr8iJvgm