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Aug. 15th, 2021 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway[fairly mild cw: illness]
A couple months ago my customary grocery store switched from last-50-years music to current music, and as I went about my business carefully extracting a supply of household staples from the store while paying as little money as legally possible, I had a dawning realisation:
'...huh. This is what 20's music sounds like.'
I'm having trouble finding specific examples to point to, but the general sound of the radio was distinct from the general sound of top-40 radios just a couple of years previously.
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Also, from what I could hear it seemed to all be the usual love songs and breakup songs and occasional songs about fame. Where are the plague songs? I was promised singing about the dark times!
The only songs about COVID-19 I've heard are [songs people recorded in their homes and uploaded directly to Youtube] + [one advertisement]. I figured there'd be a delay while radio-bound songs made their way through the usual channels, but shouldn't they be starting to turn up around now?
...actually, maybe not. While I was digging around trying to find an example of music with a 20's sound to it (surprisingly difficult), I noticed a lot of the songs I was checking were first uploaded to Youtube in 2020 or 2019. Maybe it'll be another year for the songs *written* in 2020 to work their way out to the radios.
(Although I did come across this guy wearing a mask on his album cover, so that's something.)
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A couple months ago my customary grocery store switched from last-50-years music to current music, and as I went about my business carefully extracting a supply of household staples from the store while paying as little money as legally possible, I had a dawning realisation:
'...huh. This is what 20's music sounds like.'
I'm having trouble finding specific examples to point to, but the general sound of the radio was distinct from the general sound of top-40 radios just a couple of years previously.
---
Also, from what I could hear it seemed to all be the usual love songs and breakup songs and occasional songs about fame. Where are the plague songs? I was promised singing about the dark times!
The only songs about COVID-19 I've heard are [songs people recorded in their homes and uploaded directly to Youtube] + [one advertisement]. I figured there'd be a delay while radio-bound songs made their way through the usual channels, but shouldn't they be starting to turn up around now?
...actually, maybe not. While I was digging around trying to find an example of music with a 20's sound to it (surprisingly difficult), I noticed a lot of the songs I was checking were first uploaded to Youtube in 2020 or 2019. Maybe it'll be another year for the songs *written* in 2020 to work their way out to the radios.
(Although I did come across this guy wearing a mask on his album cover, so that's something.)
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(edit: postscript)
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Date: 2021-08-15 01:33 pm (UTC)