It's July and there's no summer pop anthem.

the world is healing

I'm having another Brat Summer.

on other forums people are questioning if music itself is dead. kids care more about streamers than rappers or pop sluts nowadays.

also its the middle of 2025 and the music charts have been the same songs since last year.

something is dead.

>>126953633
the top 12 songs on Spotify US were all released this year

>>126953614
if you think that's a good sign for music then I don't know what to tell you

>>126953614
Based

>>126953633
Pop culture has become so forced and inescapable that zoomers just see it as white noise.

>>126953690
It's a sign of the next pendulum swing. Music has always come in periods of stagnation and experimentation and until now we've been living in the longest period of stagnation yet, which seems to have began in the early 2000s with the invention of the internet making almost music ever created available to everyone alive.

It seemed like a good thing for human creativity at first, but now the algorithms make sure everyone on the fucking planet has the same taste and the same influences, the horizons of their minds too saturated with homogenous slop to make anything great out of. 2010s pop was extremely 90s-derivative, current pop is extremely 80s-derivative. The ironic silver lining is that pop culture has become forced to the point that it's white noise to the zoomer brain, and boredom is the father of all experimentation

should've been boy crazy by kesha

>>126953604 (OP)
I thought this was the nigga heil hitler summer?

>>126954002
The stagnation started In like 2014. The same year /mu/ died

>>126953614
Yeah this. Only neckbearsa trying to seem superficially cool or superficially normal would actually miss this.

>>126953604 (OP)
manchild

>>126953633
That's just because the pop music machine or whatever radio is no longer relevant as a format. That's the format being used stagnating.

>>126958873
Also if you think about 64'-14' was a nice 50 year run. We've probably got another couple of decades of absolute bullocks before music gets good again

>>126953767
Worth having an actual meangful discussion within the retarded screeching ik but you're talking to people who live in a fantasy world.

SOPHIE dying literally killed the progression of pop music

>>126953767
>this is le bad because... it just is, ok?

There is one though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMeIUNcCUjE&ab_channel=WillSmith

>>126960791
Was he really doing anything that different?

Wang Chung - To Live & Die in LA