When today’s youth is old and cranky and complaining about the garbage that “kids these days” listen to*, what songs from this decade are they going point to as “real music”? When nostalgia radio stations** compile “Best of the 2010’s” playlists, what current-day songs are they still gonna be playing?
Your thoughts?
Zip City- Drive-By Truckers
A tale of teenaged angst and longing, forever relevant and rocks the fucking shit out of your head.
Ignore the stupid graphics in the video, just listen to the music.
I dropped in to say “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley, but it actually came out in '06. Crazy!
Um, “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry. “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye.
Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know
Sia - Chandelier
LP - Lost on You
Are the only post-2010 songs on my computer.
Sturgeon’s Law is a harsh taskmaster, but here’s a stab at three that are catchy enough to endure:
Adele - Rolling In the Deep
Pharrell Williams - Happy
Justin Timberlake - Can’t Stop The Feeling
Royals by Lorde will be a song played to represent this era.
Not just a song, but the opening sequence of La La Land – “Another Day of Sun” – will be as commonly shown as the clip of Gene Kelly dancing “Singin’ in the Rain.”
It probably won’t be Chuck Prophet, but I’ll go ahead and say it anyway. “Chuck Prophet”.
And Sturgill Simpson has been nominated for a Grammy this year. He probably won’t be on the future Oldies station either. Still, there’s lots of great music being made today that I’ll be listening to when I’m old.
Absolutely, came here to mention both.
…is a failed attempt at manufacturing “the song” for the summer of 2016. It will be completely forgotten in short order.
Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson
Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
and others mentioned above.
Alabama Shakes- Hold On because a good Best of 2010s album deserves a non-poppy song.
“Timber” - Pitbull and Kesha
“Get Lucky” - Daft Punk & Pharrell
The good Lord willing, “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. However, I almost never hear it on the radio anymore. Sometimes songs seem to disappear completely for a few years, only to come back after a couple decades when the nostalgia factor starts to set in.
I’m not so sure - it’s pretty catchy and I’ve seen it referenced multiple times outside the usual pop music circles. Too soon to tell, but I bet it’s another “Happy”.
Mogwai, “hardcore will never die, but you will”
You’ve probably already heard many of the tracks on that album as incidental music elsewhere.
My personal favourite is “Death Rays”.
As a crusty old-timer I shall point to the radio in years to come and say
“there! you young whippersnappers, you can shove your vocoders up yer arse, This’s what a proper guitar sounds like”