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Our Long National Nightmare Is Over
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In looking at the list...I'm guessing this is artificial.
By that I mean, the Taylor Swift album is skewing things at the moment.
Songs from her new album are currently occupying 13 of the top 40 slots.
Once the novelty of her new album winds down, some Hip Hop will find it's way back onto the top 40 list.
Kid Cudi, Cardi B, Metro Boomin, YoungBoy, and Trippie Red all have songs on the top 50 right now.
By that I mean, the Taylor Swift album is skewing things at the moment.
Songs from her new album are currently occupying 13 of the top 40 slots.
Once the novelty of her new album winds down, some Hip Hop will find it's way back onto the top 40 list.
Kid Cudi, Cardi B, Metro Boomin, YoungBoy, and Trippie Red all have songs on the top 50 right now.
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It seems the USA is in recent times elevating white hegemony. So that this trend in politics and policy might also explain why there is a drop in rap seems at least plausible. I imagine it will only last a bit longer in either case. For the moment I think many are just kind of shocked at how America is turning, but the response is coalescing and I think we will see it in music within months.
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Per my previous post, I think it's more of a "Swifties Hegemony" happening lol.
It's sort of a more modern version of when Michael Jackson released Thriller, and almost every song from that album occupied a top 40 spot.
(as a more recent example, one of Drake's albums had the same deal... 21 tracks... all placed in the top 100 simultaneously)
Music is sort of like food... people like what they like, and avoid what they don't like, and any influence personal politics has over that is typically phony and short-lived.
"I can't stand country music, but this artist agrees with me on the topic of XYZ, so I'm going to force myself to listen to songs about small towns, blue jeans, trucks and beer to prove a point" just isn't something that happens a lot.
At least not enough to have a meaningful impact on the Billboard charts. The demographic alignment for most artists is as such, where the people who were already big fans were probably mostly overlapping with them politically in the first place (and the inverse would be true as well)
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I’m not sure why rap songs appearing in the top 40 equals a “national nightmare,” but ok.
Oh wait. Yes I do.
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As music delivery technology has changed so have the metrics. Now it is (I believe) mostly driven by streams and digital purchases. This is no longer the days when record companies would release "singles" in a slow sequence of one every few weeks or months from an album (if there even was an album). But, you, you know what I need...
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Idk… I think it’s a YMMV kind of thing. The first time I sat on the lyrics to “Gangsta’s Paradise” it kind of broke my heart. And there are lots of good hype up songs that are rap.
I think since music depends on so many factors to illicit a response… Words, music, voice, pacing… It has more benchmarks to hit in order to hit people in a certain way. Like, I think Bob Dylan is a lyrical genius but his voice and accompaniments make me want to beat my head on a wall so I don’t find his music all that inspiring. Rap has a similar issue for me, but it’s because my tastes gravitate more to dance or modern pop, which in many ways is the opposite. The song that makes me feel heard, sometimes to the point of tears, is a dance pop song. It hits me perfectly, but anybody who’s not into that genre isn’t going to feel it like I do.
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For sure rap can tell an emotional story, like a book or poem can. But compared to most other music genres its typically lacking in other emotion generating factors: melody, harmonic movement, vocal expression.
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