Post by darkrage6 on Jun 2, 2024 2:52:40 GMT
As someone who was in college in the 2010s, I think some younger Gen Z are a bit misinformed about what it was like back then. It was very popular to musicians to create "party jams" because they were very profitable. So there were a lot of songs that sounded very up beat and you will probably still hear on repeat at social events and restaurants. I feel like a lot of Katy Perry and Lady Gaga songs are good examples of this.
Tho I won't personally call the era overall "party crazy". With stuff like the Great Recession and Occupy Wall Street, a lot of things just felt very hopeless. Thus a lot of people became more interested in things that were more indie and hipster.
At the time, people found songs like Party Rock Anthem and stuff like Jersey Shore to be obnoxious. Meanwhile people really liked songs like Thrift Shop, because it was far more relatable to young adults during that time.
And yeah, PLENTY of people didn't even like these "bops," which many Gen Z kids consider nostalgic now. If you check out Youtube comments and commentary at that time, for every "Yasss slayyy king/queen," there were just as many people bemoaning the loss of the musical sphere of THEIR day. "Like what happened to grunge and punk rock brooooo???" He's a contentious figure, but Youtube commentator A Dose of Buckley did a great piece on this, how every generation seems to think the generation right after them has a "terrible taste in music." Like how people fondly remember say, KESHA, now. Even if her music did commercially well, it wasn't considered "high brow" or even necessarily “good" at that time.
I don't think happy music was being made to try and distract people from the recession or anything like that, I don't think it's that deep, after all Grunge was depressing as hell and it was very popular when the stock market was in good shape so who knows?
I use FB way less then I used to, sometimes I would post statements on my page but I hardly do that anymore, now I just occasionally share Change.org petitions on there or chat with my Facebook groups but that's about it.