The wild thing is I think artists are putting effort into one very catchy verse or chorus for TikTok and then forgetting or not putting effort into the rest of the song. Example: Unholy by Sam Smith
Unholy is also suffering from TikTok length syndrome. It seems unfinished to me. They could've built more. A bridge? More harmonizing? Idk, it had potential.
The whole song is a bop in my opinion I loved it even before it blew up on tiktok, but I agree with every other tiktok song. but sadly it got so overused on tiktok that it ruined it for me.
You know what? It seems like any song that comes off of the platform and becomes popular, the radio tends to push it to levels where the song will become even more unbearable. Like I said before, I work at a job where there’s a radio present (it’s a small kitchen area I work at) and the radio station plays some of these same songs every. single. time. Imagine that torture.
I'm so fortunate that, somehow, the big grocery chain I work at has so much variety. I very rarely hear the same songs in even the same month, which is great even if most of the music is either bad or mediocre
It's sad because I hate a lot of amazing songs because of the radio and social media. I swore off radio several years ago and that has made it a bit better. But when I'm semi forced to hear it, it is very very repetitive.
@Quentin “Bring the Nu Metal” Childs. Yo whats up my fellow Nu Metal homie I’m from the U.K. and half of the Radio music over here is like nothing happened in music past 1996. And the other half of music on the Radio in the U.K. is like nothing happened in music pre 2010. It’s like in the U.K., they want to forget music that appealed to the millennials. We’ve got Boomer stations a plenty in the U.K., if you want PoP music from the 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s then you’re all good. We’ve also got a lot of stations that appeal to Gen Xers that love 80’s and early 90’s PoP or Indie music. There is basically a whole generation of 40 somethings in the U.K. that worship early to mid 90’s British Indie music, Oasis etc etc . And there is a whole generation of 50 somethings that worship anything 80’s in the U.K.. Then we’ve got stations that appeal to Gen Z, (don’t know why considering they are the generation that would least listen to the radio), that play PoP music from 2010 onwards. The only station that would appeal to the Millennials in the U.K. is Kerrang, the only problem with that though is they mostly play to the PoP Punk and Emo crowd, and I hate that shit. So if you want to pretend it’s 2006 or 2007 then Kerrang is for you. U.K. radio is astoundingly bad.
@@nu-metalfan2654 That’s terrible, man. By the way since you’re from the U.K., I’ve been hearing about a burgeoning scene occurring over there right now. It’s a type of post - punk, but more in a talk - sing type of style (sprechgesang). I call it “Sprechgesangcore”. What do you think about it, if you ever heard of any of the bands? It’s pretty cool, in my eyes; some of the most original - sounding music I’ve heard in awhile.
@@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125 No I’ve heard nothing of a new music scene over here. Here in the U.K., people do love their Post Punk and Indie stuff, though. I don’t get it though. The U.K. is a very less is more and primitive country when it comes to music, bands in the U.K. don’t steer too much from tradition, and like to keep things simple and boring. Which is why I gravitate to the US for my music because it’s very grand and just full of creativity, and US bands tend to not focus on tradition as much. In the U.K. Boomers and Gen Xers feel like the Millennials are too Americanised in the U.K. Imo it’s because the British bands coming through from 1996 to 2009, during that Millennial Era was appealing to the Gen Xers. So the UK millennials was seeing what was going on in the US music from 1996 to 2009 and felt more apart of that, and so do I. US and U.K. music are very different, I feel the US bands tend to focus and target their music on different subcultures, I don’t know if the idea of a subculture is still a thing in the US because over here in the U.K. it’s not. The last actual British subculture was the Chavs that loved U.K. garage music. U.K. garage music was like the only British music scene that did appeal to the Millennial generation. U.K. garage music is like a hybrid of Rap and Dance music that came from the 90’s underground, and went full on mainstream in the U.K. by 1999/2000, but UK garage fans say that the scene died by 2005. The U.K. Chav subculture would still be a thing for 10 more years as the Chav fashion style was by 2005 just the Millennial teenage/20 something fashion. Since 2005 the U.K. hasn’t had another subculture in music. I don’t know if the US still has music subcultures or if the idea of a subculture is dead today, I don’t know.
I uninstalled tiktok for a few months ago, now I’m only on Pinterest and UA-cam, and it was the best decision of my life. I don’t know why everybody gets so suprised when I tell them I don’t have tiktok anymore.
TikTok’s biggest crime is blowing up David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s terrible rendition of ‘Blue’ because now that’s all I hear on the radio at work and all it does it make me think of how much I want to listen to the original -_-
YES. I hear it at my job a lot, too. I don’t get it. What is with artists today and taking original ideas or music that has been done before and making it crap?
@@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125 There’s nothing wrong with occasionally taking a classic and adding a new flare to it, but the mainstream is oversaturated with crappy redos that completely butcher the original versions. As a working artist myself, it annoys the living hell out of me because it’s yet another thing that makes it so hard for original bands to get mainstream recognition!
Ikr. Being a TikToker is a bad job in my opinion. There are people out there with very tough jobs and get paid very little for them and meanwhile we have people on Tiktok getting paid millions for doing little effort dances and challenges in their living room.
The other problem with "sped up songs" is that there are these "artists" on Spotify who basically just sped up the songs and upload them to Spotify like it's their "remix". They upload the sped up/slowed versions of original songs without crediting the original artist and get millions of monthly listeners. It's so stupid and as a Gen Z myself, I hate Gen Z for enabling such culture
You did well on detailing everything coming from Tiktok at the moment and all the confusion with it. I got confused with why "sped up version" songs got so big and then immediately hated it once I discovered "Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Sped Up Version)"
People pay 50 $/€ and much more to go to a concert of an artist, of whom they maybe just know two songs? And then they spent the concert most on their phones and mostly ignoring the artist? On the one hand its so riddiculous that it must be fake, on the other hand it sounds so true for this day and age...
ive been a fan of Mother Mother since 2017 and their music was a huge part of my early highschool experience. I felt a little bit of whiplash when hayloft started blowing up on tiktok, but was overall happy for the band and was excited to see the sequel they released (which i thought was an interesting take on the new found fame.) it was unfortunate when i got to see them live because the lack of people who knew their songs (even the other popular ones) was…disturbing? the venue was sold out, but the crowd was just so lame. lots of phones, everyone went crazy for hayloft and verbatim, but besides that there was a lot of disrespectful crowd edict. made me feel weird being the only one where i was standing who actually seemed to be excited for their other material. Happy to see more people talking about this, great content as always 👐🏼
100% agree. i just wish you could disable youtube shorts because no matter what, i always seem to find myself endlessly scrolling into the void. also, i love your profile pic
@@itsMe..- Even Instagram has ‘reels’ now. Sometimes I find myself endlessly scrolling through shorts and forget which of the apps I’m actually on. TikTok’s algorithm seems to better tbf
3:00 - this... right here..... Is why I don't like tik tok 'remixes'. Because Nightcore did it first, or at least popularized it, and no one is using the correct term for these disastrous 'attempt's at making music.
I heard a sped up version of Dont Stop Me Now by Queen on TikTok. I love Queen so much they are one of my favorite bands but if their music every reaches TikTok fame I don’t think I will ever recover.
I think one thing that can be said about tik tok (perhaps social media in general) is that it puts a lot more emphasis on vibes sorry I meant ✨vibes ✨than it does the actual contents/details of a piece of art. Hence ppl can go to a Steve Lacy concert not knowing the lyrics to even his biggest song cos it’s about the overall ✨mood ✨ not the actual content and the latter arguably isn’t particularly necessary for the former
Yup, it's social media in general. We primarily consume music in apps on our phones now, so music is more tailored to fit in the background of whatever media it's attached to. This is also why many have noted that genre matters less these last few years.
I have searched music genres and I cannot find it. It isn't music. It is just attention getting noise, and just as in commercials, the more annoying, the better. I am talking about the TIk Tok mash up and in some cases, the original version as well. I am talking about the so-called "music" that has looping syllables (ay yei yei or bay bay bay) that are all hyper, auto tuned, computerized and plasticky that is on Tik Tok and at the mall. It is horrifying, dreadful, and even nauseating. I just want to understand who actually likes this because I am pretty sure we all hate it. What has happened that people have become so accepting of things that are horrible?
I also hate when the Tik Tok audience gets its hands on actual good music and tears it to shreds. Like the single from CRJ new album that got popular and now everyone's saying "oh the call me maybe girl is trying to make a comeback with a new song" or making fun of the song when it's one the highlights of the new album. One person even had the sheer audacity to compare her to Meghan Trainer. My Carly stan heart almost just broke right then and there. Moral of the story is tiktok is a terrible platform for music and we shouldn't let tiktok users decide as what the public sees as "good".
I love that’s she’s been getting more recognition with the song, but I hate how there’s people that only like the bridge and complain about the rest of the song being “too different”??? It’s a bridge ffs, but I feel people aren’t used to any contrast or variation within a song anymore, because a lot of these tiktok songs are like 2 minutes long and they often don’t even have a bridge.
TikTok is horrible for Music. Right now TikTok is at its height & will start to decline in the next 2 to 3 years. Music went from Albums to Singles to individual songs on iTunes & Streaming to now TikTok with like you said very short songs that last a minute at most. So the real question is what will happen to Music after Tiktok?
It was fitting you brought up the Somebody I Used To Know thing given the amount of times I've heard some god awful pitch shifted version of that song on Instagram. It sucks.
I'm surprised I'm not the only one thinking the same thing. I mean, look at AJR's song "World's Smallest Violin." I used to like the song at first, thinking the song was catchy, but now that it's spread around everywhere, and the same snippet is repeated over and over again, I started to despise the song, I didn't even want to bother to listen to that song anymore. I feel like it's becoming a sort of becoming a sort of stigma to me that if a song gets viral on TikTok, it would probably ruin the song in the next 2 or 3 weeks of it going viral.
Honestly, if you can give me 18 versions of a song that actually all deserve to exist, hell yea why not. But 99% of artists cant, or just wouldnt, so dont.
I’m stoked to see bands like bad omens and sleep token blow up like crazy because of tik tok but man paying 300$ for a ticket makes me want to gatekeep those bands so badly. Same with Lorna shore. It’s wild seeing them live and not seeing much of a pit now
i’ll give TikTok one thing - at least Ghost are gaining enormous traction currently. Mary On A Cross and even Fleetwood Mac’s songs are some of the few songs blowing up through TikTok that i can appreciate gaining exposure. on the other hand, i’m starting to get bored of BMTH’s Can You Feel My Heart playing so often. worst thing is all these ‘sLoWeD + rEvErB’ “songs” being EVERYWHERE. bruh. stop messing with my Nightcore childhood!
I was surprised when I was talking to this girl who said she liked ghost. I knew used tiktok a lot, but when I asked her what her favourite song was, she said Square Hammer. Now Idk if it popular on tiktok, as far as I know only Marry On Cross is the only one killing it right now, but I'm just glad people are finding Meliora. Steller album, though admittedly one of few of Ghost's works that I genuinely love.
@@lethybridtheorygolucastheo2191 omg stop, i can’t listen to Dear Maria anymore because it’s just so overplayed.. especially considering ATL have so much better songs!
@@AtomicOpenHouse as far as i know it’s mostly Mary On A Cross trending hard, though i’ve seen a lot of Hunter’s Moon (probably because of Halloween) and Dance Macabre trending!
I think tiktok is a good way to introduce people to new music (I've personally found a lot of music that I've never heard of but really enjoy through the platform) but the problem is that with anything popular on tiktok it's hard to escape. I know a very big example of an artist's song becoming super popular and people going to their shows only knowing 1 song is Steve Lacey and Glass Animals. If you want to go to their shows, that's awesome! But not taking the time to listen to at least one album by that artist and leaving after [insert song that is popular on tiktok here] is really scummy.
Yeah I do agree with your point tiktok actually does have its pros and cons . More cons but tiktok did help introduce me to the music and artists I like now but it definitely sucks that people who only know one viral song from a artist goes to their concert and doesn’t take the time to decide if they actually like the artist music or just that one song.
I went to a Magdalena Bay concert last weekend and when they played Killshot, they played the reverb version for part of the song, which was interesting. I prefer the OG but I don't blame Mica and Matt for inserting it into the show, it probably earned them a lot of new fans, and they want to pay homage to that. But yeah as a fellow non TikTok user, I agree with all the points you made in this video.
I’m glad that I am not into TikTok. The problem is that those TikTok post have been reposted to other social media channels, and that is annoying (Not to mention that Instagram and UA-cam have similar features). Why can’t each platform have their own unique thing instead of copying each other?
I really don't like nightcore/daycore/etc and sped up or slowed version. That's why when I use TikTok (and barely use it, only use it for watching cooking videos lmao) I always skip videos with those sped up/slowed songs and some terrible remix. The most fucked up thing about sped up/slowed songs is some people called it "Tiktok REMIX" meanwhile it's just sped up/slowed of the actual songs. And the fact that currently some artists released the sped up/slowed version of their own song officially makes me really confused.
This video echoes my sentiments exactly.. So glad I realized early on that I'd never get my brain cells back after watching tik toc for a half hour early on..I'm fairly certain it was the "music" people were setting to their videos that drove me away.. Oh no oh no oh no!!
I have indeed found some artists I like via TikTok, but one of my biggest hangups even with original, non-meme songs on that platform is the seeming obsession with making things "relatable." Yes, individually those songs are quite nice, but there are only so many quarter-life crisis songs about feeling left behind in life that I can suffer in a row, y'know?
Mary on a Cross blowing up is good because the snippet is pretty well representative of the rest of the song but what kills me is the nightcore’d first 10 seconds of Year Zero (BELIAL BEHOMOTH BEELZEBUB ASMODEUS SATANAS LUCIFER) because that version is not made by the band nor is it representative AT ALL of the rest of the song (the chorus is much catchier than the intro). Idk it pisses me off. Also like nobody realizes that those songs are by the same band
Its such a shame this video has so little attention, the whole internet needs to be aware of this nonsense that is ruining culture and internet content. I find it so annoying that tiktok """"music artists"""" will find some actually good song that doesnt need a slowed/sped up version, then add their stupid touch to them, put it in some slop video, and, act like they made some masterpiece. even worse, they'll probably get more attention than the original song. Then, it gets slowed or sped up even more by other """artists""" to the point where nobody can enjoy the original song anymore. Death. Culture is being ruined because now it seems to rely on the not even original form of song.
Album tracks that got popular on tik tok are mostly decent/good song: - Enchanted (Taylor Swift) - Don't Blame Me (Taylor Swift) - House of Memories (P!ATD) - The Shade (Rex Orange County)
When I saw House of Memories blowing up, I thought 'oh thats cool, it's a super underappreciated song from DOAB, nice that it's receiving the attention it deserves'. Only realised it was a TikTok hit when Brendon hastily dropped the House Of Memories EP on Spotify with a sped up and slowed down version. It would've been interesting if there was an acoustic version of the song instead but it really highlights how vibes matter more than substance even on songs that deserve the new attention
That's why I love tool. They prohibit phones. Ive seen ppl get thrown out. When I've seen them they let you take photos or whatever for the last song. I'm bot saying it's wrong to take pics. But when all your doi g is whipping your phone out your losing the experience and distracting others. Can't tell you how many elbows I've been hit by because people are are going live for songs.
TikTok has turned the Hot 100 into a not very good weekly chart , and the overall quality has continued to decline, and also the competition has gotten weaker. I would imagine that the competition would for sure have been even more lackluster than it is right now, if not for that app. There are actually various fake Kate Bush fans out there, like they only know "Running Up That Hill", and yet they still claim to be supposed fans, even though they only know that song.
No but like the thing about going to concerts just for one song is so true cuz when I went to a twenty one pilots concert the people around me were so quiet and only really sang a long to their radio hits or songs popular on tiktok and it’s like why spnd that much money to only hear a few songs then be dead silent the rest of the concert. At least it wasn’t a ton of people being like that and only a few people, nothing compared to some of the concert clips I’ve seen from other artists
You know what's gonna be sad? When one day, all the delusional people on Tik Tok (Who enjoy all of the sped up remix versions of songs) will call the remixed/ sped up versions of songs as the ACTUAL song. Imagine for example, Tik Tok speeds up '39 from Queen. And it blows up on Tik Tok. I'd personally be somewhat happy because I'm a Queen fan (And have been for 3 years) and it's a pretty underrated song, but if it gets to a point where the sped up version is recognised as the ACTUAL version, I'll lose my mind.
I usually try to get one good picture at a concert then I put the phone away. I will never understand recording the entire thing like some people do. It’s probably going to get lost in the camera roll and never viewed again. Posting on snap is dumb in general and even dumber posting 20 minutes of likely bad concert footage nobody else cares about.
To your last point about phone usage: for whatever reason, I used to record the entirety of shows. But lately, seeing my favorite bands for the first time in YEARS… all I’ve been doing is just living in the moment. And the spark I thought I was losing for concerts has been reignited. It’s been great. I highly recommend just allowing yourself to live in the moment at shows
I'm curious to check these out more, because I've gotten quite tired of the lounge-y indie moment we've been having for a few years now. Any good ones?
@@Morgan_L Engravings by Ethan Bortnick charted on the hot rock/Alternative songs chart recently and it's probably one of the weirdest songs to ever chart there. I think Tek It by Cafune and Sex Drugs Etc by Beach Weather are really relaxing songs. And I think Hotel by Montell Fish is pretty cool. It's got an extremally distorted instrumental that makes it sound like he's being drowned out by static but somehow, he makes it work
I heard Måneskin’s version of Beggin on Tiktok, fell in love and have been listening to all their music now, hopefully I’ll get to go see them live next week. 🙂 I wish I had more time to learn all the Italian songs!
I found out that Eurovision existed through the Will Ferrell movie in 2020, checked the 2021 winner out of curiosity and though "oh cool a rock band won". Been listening to them and loving it ever since
To me, the TikTok virality of music is whatever to me. Better yet, whatever style of music I hear is not making me hate it as much as it should. It's just whatever to me. Perfect example is "Bloody Mary" by Lady Gaga. Her song blew up on TikTok due to the sped up version being used to generate interest in the Wednesday Addams Netflix series (and because of the popular dance scene). But, surprisingly, I like the original version, the sped up version and the slowed reverb version all the same. To me, the latter two are just accents to an already popular song. I understand why people may feel a certain way about TikTok, but I just don't have the anger in me to criticize it when there are bigger and better things for me to complain about.
Sped up music is the vain of my existence. Literally the most laziest shit, and the fact that official artists post sped up versions on streaming services cough cough Tears For Fears and Micheal Buble cough cough. Gets my blood boiling.
I personally enjoy oliver tree, but the problem is people overuse his two most popular songs that i dont even like.. and tiktok imagines thats his whole discography sounds sh!tty, tiktok has ruined so many artists and peoples tastes in horrid music
Not sure why my comment gets removed but, great study from Brown University: What Makes TikTok so Addictive?: An Analysis of the Mechanisms Underlying the World's Latest Social Media Craze
Just heard som terrible trashy TikTok remix of didos original banger thank you, and what the fuck the song went “my tea gone cold” x10 “ I wonder why” x10 then some terrible drop that does not fit and then repeat, and the Uber driver and i was like wtf is this crap 💩
how are there people going to whole concerts for only one or two songs, and only a part of the song at that???? it sounds like a waste of time and money. I can't imagine myself going to a concert for anyone if I haven't listened to at least most of their albums and enjoyed a lot of their songs, it's just baffling to me.
For those who are soon to have kids or already do have kids, make sure to limit their exposure to this mind-numbing drug of an app that is TikTok. Yes you can say the same about other social media apps in general, but arguably TikTok put the nail in the coffin. Please, you will do the world a favor.
On one side TikTok has introduced me to some great songs/bands but other hand it seems to hurt concerts like the I Prevail tour with PTV where some only know King For A Day and leave right after PTV perform
Oof The "using your cellphone during the whole concert" thing was before Tik Tok and I hate it. Like, it's okay to take some photos or even film a video, but that's it. People's logic is to be filming 24/7 so then you can watch it again and again, but what about the experience? I'm not having any fun if I'm constantly holding my phone trying to have a good recording of the show. Maybe it's that I personally haven't been to much concerts. Idk. But I completely agree with the way poeple make songs go viral. Yes, if I were an artist I'd be cool with it, since I know that when people hear my song on Tik Tok, no matter which version they've heard there, they go to the original and then that one goes viral. But, at the same time, I wouldn't care to put another version of my song just cause people are on my ass about it. If you want to listen to the song listen to the original, and if you don't like it go to Tik Tok. I also don't get the "listen to the snippet part of a song a 1000M times". How can't you get sick of it? If I hear a song that I like and always hear a part multiple times, then, when I listen to the whole piece, it would stick out a lot and ends up really annoying me. I'm not much into social media, but this is more of a general view on it, and not as if I were against it
Nearly 10 years ago we had Holy Grail by Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake absolutely dominate the charts, and that song was well over 5 minutes. And nowadays we hardly get songs dominate the charts that are over 3 minutes.
What bugs me about this new TikTok generation is not so much the new music they vibe with... I expect every generation should have musical interests of their own separate than what came before... and having said that, I've seen this trend where TikTok viral trends where they take an older song, say a song from the 90's and it's sped up and pitch shifted to sound generally faster and higher pitched... like people dancing to "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus... hey that was my song growing up, get yer own music you darned kids lol
they really turned Nirvana’s angsty and moody songs into EDM remixes.. yeahhh i’m all for remixing and stuff, but Nirvana of all bands just do not work with EDM.
I mean most people have a terrible taste in music, we all like different things, different strokes for different folks, that’s all. But there is just more bad music out there than good music, it’s not just music but movies as well, there are more bad movies than good movies out there. But then again what is “good taste” when it comes to music?, is it a positive review from music critics?, because imo I don’t think so, most music critics are very snobbish to anything thats macho or crass. Imo good taste in music is anything that’s not boring or annoying (like top 40 PoP, Indie music, Trap/Mumble Rap, or Radio music), or anything that’s weird or cringy (like Glam, Punk, Goth, Emo, or New Wave music). So if you don’t like any of that shit then you have good taste, but that’s just me.
Hit it spot on. TikTok is absolutely ruining the music industry and the way people view music in general. It’s not about music or art anymore, it’s just about content, just about whatever you can cut and squeeze into a 15 second clip and that’s it. Specifically with the sped up/slowed down stuff, it was a BIG red flag for me to see bands like Panic! At The Disco release these stupid “remix” EPs with the sped up versions, and to see them charting higher than the original songs sometimes. It’s honestly appalling with TikTok is doing to our attention spans, the consumption of art and music, and our society as a whole.
This is why i never once used tiktok, after seeing from the outskirts how they be abusing my favorite songs lmao, house of memories my beloved, rest in peace, same with king for a day lol
I don't think your video comes off as preachy or like you're on a high horse or anything like that. However, the general argument (not your argument specifically) tends to get really gatekeep-y, and can come off like "hey, you're enjoying music wrong". Personally, I'm big into listening to artists' deep cuts, knowing the stories behind the songs, music theory, etc. all of that "deep" music stuff. But it's also totally okay just to like a chorus because it catches your ear and makes you wanna dance. And TikTok or not, people are gonna miss the point of some songs no matter what you do. How many couples have played U2's "One" at a wedding, or how many people think "Semi-charmed Life" is a happy song. I do enjoy watching some of the record companies thrown off their game by what has come from TikTok, so there's certainly some bias on my part.
I went to my god-sister's 16th birthday party 2 weeks ago, she and her friends are VERY into tiktok. They had a live DJ and they would scream in excitement when a steve lacy or burna boy song came on... and knew NONE of the verses, just the hooks/choruses, and I can't even give them a pass for burna boy because we're all from the Caribbean and understand what he's saying very clearly. Also I was talking to this goth chick at a flea market booth selling band merch and she talked about liking Ghost and said her favourite song was mary on a cross, to which I replied "Oh from Seven Inches of Satanic Panic? I like Kiss The Go-Goat more, it's faster," To which she replied, "Seven Inches Of What?" Then I knew what I had gotten into. Being interested, invested and willing to explore the music you like is really important. I found Brand New because of a video you made with limosine, liked it, checked them out and before you know it im buying their vinyls. I also met one of my old E-Girlfriends (cringe, i know) on the Brand New subreddit, and because of her and the Brand New Radio on spotify i found amazing small bands like The Republic Of Wolves, Out of Service, Microwave, Prince Daddy and The Hyena, Choir Vandals and so much more. All because I took interest and looked for what I liked. Take the initiative. Music isn't just a hobby, it shows you more media, takes you places, and being fans of the same small artist is one of the tightest bonds you can have.
Constant headache by Joyce manor, Betrayal of Fear by Gouskan, and the My Singing Monsters soundtrack sound good slowed and reverbed ngl. especially cold island and magical sanctum. granted, I listen to the whole song. I deleted Tik Tok bc it sucks.
What’s the WORST viral TikTok song that won’t stop playing in your head??
UNHOLY. I HATE THAT SONG WITH ALL OF MY HEART.
abcdefu and Glass Animals' Heat Waves!
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@@way257backup +1 for Heat Waves...
Right now i got munch (feelin u) by ice spice stuck in my head lol. To be fair its not a horrible song its just generic and thoroughly meh
The wild thing is I think artists are putting effort into one very catchy verse or chorus for TikTok and then forgetting or not putting effort into the rest of the song. Example: Unholy by Sam Smith
Exactly
Unholy is also suffering from TikTok length syndrome. It seems unfinished to me. They could've built more. A bridge? More harmonizing? Idk, it had potential.
The whole song is a bop in my opinion I loved it even before it blew up on tiktok, but I agree with every other tiktok song. but sadly it got so overused on tiktok that it ruined it for me.
And as an artist trying to market my music has at least tainted my process, idk about ruined but like it def feels less authentic.sometimed
You know what? It seems like any song that comes off of the platform and becomes popular, the radio tends to push it to levels where the song will become even more unbearable. Like I said before, I work at a job where there’s a radio present (it’s a small kitchen area I work at) and the radio station plays some of these same songs every. single. time. Imagine that torture.
I'm so fortunate that, somehow, the big grocery chain I work at has so much variety. I very rarely hear the same songs in even the same month, which is great even if most of the music is either bad or mediocre
It's sad because I hate a lot of amazing songs because of the radio and social media. I swore off radio several years ago and that has made it a bit better. But when I'm semi forced to hear it, it is very very repetitive.
@Quentin “Bring the Nu Metal” Childs. Yo whats up my fellow Nu Metal homie
I’m from the U.K. and half of the Radio music over here is like nothing happened in music past 1996. And the other half of music on the Radio in the U.K. is like nothing happened in music pre 2010.
It’s like in the U.K., they want to forget music that appealed to the millennials.
We’ve got Boomer stations a plenty in the U.K., if you want PoP music from the 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s then you’re all good. We’ve also got a lot of stations that appeal to Gen Xers that love 80’s and early 90’s PoP or Indie music.
There is basically a whole generation of 40 somethings in the U.K. that worship early to mid 90’s British Indie music, Oasis etc etc .
And there is a whole generation of 50 somethings that worship anything 80’s in the U.K..
Then we’ve got stations that appeal to Gen Z, (don’t know why considering they are the generation that would least listen to the radio), that play PoP music from 2010 onwards.
The only station that would appeal to the Millennials in the U.K. is Kerrang, the only problem with that though is they mostly play to the PoP Punk and Emo crowd, and I hate that shit. So if you want to pretend it’s 2006 or 2007 then Kerrang is for you.
U.K. radio is astoundingly bad.
@@nu-metalfan2654 That’s terrible, man.
By the way since you’re from the U.K., I’ve been hearing about a burgeoning scene occurring over there right now. It’s a type of post - punk, but more in a talk - sing type of style (sprechgesang). I call it “Sprechgesangcore”. What do you think about it, if you ever heard of any of the bands? It’s pretty cool, in my eyes; some of the most original - sounding music I’ve heard in awhile.
@@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125 No I’ve heard nothing of a new music scene over here.
Here in the U.K., people do love their Post Punk and Indie stuff, though. I don’t get it though.
The U.K. is a very less is more and primitive country when it comes to music, bands in the U.K. don’t steer too much from tradition, and like to keep things simple and boring.
Which is why I gravitate to the US for my music because it’s very grand and just full of creativity, and US bands tend to not focus on tradition as much.
In the U.K. Boomers and Gen Xers feel like the Millennials are too Americanised in the U.K.
Imo it’s because the British bands coming through from 1996 to 2009, during that Millennial Era was appealing to the Gen Xers.
So the UK millennials was seeing what was going on in the US music from 1996 to 2009 and felt more apart of that, and so do I.
US and U.K. music are very different, I feel the US bands tend to focus and target their music on different subcultures, I don’t know if the idea of a subculture is still a thing in the US because over here in the U.K. it’s not.
The last actual British subculture was the Chavs that loved U.K. garage music.
U.K. garage music was like the only British music scene that did appeal to the Millennial generation.
U.K. garage music is like a hybrid of Rap and Dance music that came from the 90’s underground, and went full on mainstream in the U.K. by 1999/2000, but UK garage fans say that the scene died by 2005.
The U.K. Chav subculture would still be a thing for 10 more years as the Chav fashion style was by 2005 just the Millennial teenage/20 something fashion.
Since 2005 the U.K. hasn’t had another subculture in music.
I don’t know if the US still has music subcultures or if the idea of a subculture is dead today, I don’t know.
I uninstalled tiktok for a few months ago, now I’m only on Pinterest and UA-cam, and it was the best decision of my life. I don’t know why everybody gets so suprised when I tell them I don’t have tiktok anymore.
SAMEEE
The fact that people can recognize dark red and bad habit. Yethe not know they're by the same artist, its just baffling
TikTok’s biggest crime is blowing up David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s terrible rendition of ‘Blue’ because now that’s all I hear on the radio at work and all it does it make me think of how much I want to listen to the original -_-
YES. I hear it at my job a lot, too.
I don’t get it. What is with artists today and taking original ideas or music that has been done before and making it crap?
@@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125 There’s nothing wrong with occasionally taking a classic and adding a new flare to it, but the mainstream is oversaturated with crappy redos that completely butcher the original versions. As a working artist myself, it annoys the living hell out of me because it’s yet another thing that makes it so hard for original bands to get mainstream recognition!
I like that song "Blue" by Bebe Rexha but I respect your opinion. I agree TikTok needs to be banned in America.
Yeah, talk about unoriginal and creatively bankrupt. That's a move you'd make as a child when learning music in the first place.
Tik tok in general is terrible 😂
agree
Ikr. Being a TikToker is a bad job in my opinion. There are people out there with very tough jobs and get paid very little for them and meanwhile we have people on Tiktok getting paid millions for doing little effort dances and challenges in their living room.
@@johnnyrock1130 Thanks for directing me that way 👍🏻
Yeah, except the cat videos. Because cats are legends😂
Better then youtube shorts
I’ve been off Tiktok for over a year now and it was the best thing for my sanity.
The other problem with "sped up songs" is that there are these "artists" on Spotify who basically just sped up the songs and upload them to Spotify like it's their "remix". They upload the sped up/slowed versions of original songs without crediting the original artist and get millions of monthly listeners. It's so stupid and as a Gen Z myself, I hate Gen Z for enabling such culture
SZA shade lol
it’s not that hard to speed or slow a song, no credit needed
You did well on detailing everything coming from Tiktok at the moment and all the confusion with it. I got confused with why "sped up version" songs got so big and then immediately hated it once I discovered "Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Sped Up Version)"
I agree.
People pay 50 $/€ and much more to go to a concert of an artist, of whom they maybe just know two songs? And then they spent the concert most on their phones and mostly ignoring the artist?
On the one hand its so riddiculous that it must be fake, on the other hand it sounds so true for this day and age...
ive been a fan of Mother Mother since 2017 and their music was a huge part of my early highschool experience. I felt a little bit of whiplash when hayloft started blowing up on tiktok, but was overall happy for the band and was excited to see the sequel they released (which i thought was an interesting take on the new found fame.)
it was unfortunate when i got to see them live because the lack of people who knew their songs (even the other popular ones) was…disturbing? the venue was sold out, but the crowd was just so lame. lots of phones, everyone went crazy for hayloft and verbatim, but besides that there was a lot of disrespectful crowd edict. made me feel weird being the only one where i was standing who actually seemed to be excited for their other material. Happy to see more people talking about this, great content as always 👐🏼
Not a music guy, never used TikTok, but this still kept me engaged the whole way through. Subbed :D
Love to hear that, thank you!!!
Moral of the video, don’t use TikTok. Make the general public realize that
100% agree. i just wish you could disable youtube shorts because no matter what, i always seem to find myself endlessly scrolling into the void. also, i love your profile pic
@@itsMe..- it would be soooo nice if you could opt out of shorts, I agree.
@@itsMe..- Even Instagram has ‘reels’ now. Sometimes I find myself endlessly scrolling through shorts and forget which of the apps I’m actually on. TikTok’s algorithm seems to better tbf
@@itsMe..- Nice pfp as well. Nice to see another MCR fan in the comments section
TikTok isn’t using bad songs
They are making them bad
3:00 - this... right here..... Is why I don't like tik tok 'remixes'. Because Nightcore did it first, or at least popularized it, and no one is using the correct term for these disastrous 'attempt's at making music.
I heard a sped up version of Dont Stop Me Now by Queen on TikTok. I love Queen so much they are one of my favorite bands but if their music every reaches TikTok fame I don’t think I will ever recover.
Idk about you but it especially annoys me when it's old music. Like right now there's a song TikTok is currently trying to ruin and it's fucking me up
I think one thing that can be said about tik tok (perhaps social media in general) is that it puts a lot more emphasis on vibes sorry I meant ✨vibes ✨than it does the actual contents/details of a piece of art. Hence ppl can go to a Steve Lacy concert not knowing the lyrics to even his biggest song cos it’s about the overall ✨mood ✨ not the actual content and the latter arguably isn’t particularly necessary for the former
Yup, it's social media in general. We primarily consume music in apps on our phones now, so music is more tailored to fit in the background of whatever media it's attached to. This is also why many have noted that genre matters less these last few years.
I agree, fuck indie songs
I have searched music genres and I cannot find it. It isn't music. It is just attention getting noise, and just as in commercials, the more annoying, the better. I am talking about the TIk Tok mash up and in some cases, the original version as well. I am talking about the so-called "music" that has looping syllables (ay yei yei or bay bay bay) that are all hyper, auto tuned, computerized and plasticky that is on Tik Tok and at the mall. It is horrifying, dreadful, and even nauseating. I just want to understand who actually likes this because I am pretty sure we all hate it. What has happened that people have become so accepting of things that are horrible?
Abcdefu always gets in my head and I hate it so much
I also hate when the Tik Tok audience gets its hands on actual good music and tears it to shreds. Like the single from CRJ new album that got popular and now everyone's saying "oh the call me maybe girl is trying to make a comeback with a new song" or making fun of the song when it's one the highlights of the new album.
One person even had the sheer audacity to compare her to Meghan Trainer. My Carly stan heart almost just broke right then and there. Moral of the story is tiktok is a terrible platform for music and we shouldn't let tiktok users decide as what the public sees as "good".
I love that’s she’s been getting more recognition with the song, but I hate how there’s people that only like the bridge and complain about the rest of the song being “too different”??? It’s a bridge ffs, but I feel people aren’t used to any contrast or variation within a song anymore, because a lot of these tiktok songs are like 2 minutes long and they often don’t even have a bridge.
As someone who has never used TikTok and never will, I’m glad lol
U're a legend
@@evajaneryan3746no theyre not
TikTok is horrible for Music. Right now TikTok is at its height & will start to decline in the next 2 to 3 years. Music went from Albums to Singles to individual songs on iTunes & Streaming to now TikTok with like you said very short songs that last a minute at most. So the real question is what will happen to Music after Tiktok?
It was fitting you brought up the Somebody I Used To Know thing given the amount of times I've heard some god awful pitch shifted version of that song on Instagram. It sucks.
I'm surprised I'm not the only one thinking the same thing. I mean, look at AJR's song "World's Smallest Violin." I used to like the song at first, thinking the song was catchy, but now that it's spread around everywhere, and the same snippet is repeated over and over again, I started to despise the song, I didn't even want to bother to listen to that song anymore. I feel like it's becoming a sort of becoming a sort of stigma to me that if a song gets viral on TikTok, it would probably ruin the song in the next 2 or 3 weeks of it going viral.
Imagine AJR singing it live, they will only song the repeated part and jsut stay silent after that, it just ruins it.
Honestly, if you can give me 18 versions of a song that actually all deserve to exist, hell yea why not. But 99% of artists cant, or just wouldnt, so dont.
I’m stoked to see bands like bad omens and sleep token blow up like crazy because of tik tok but man paying 300$ for a ticket makes me want to gatekeep those bands so badly. Same with Lorna shore. It’s wild seeing them live and not seeing much of a pit now
Glad I've never had Tik Tok for this reason. Also 100% agree about people constantly being on their phones during concerts & the fake fans 😒😒
Ahhh the Pierce the Veil and I Prevail concert incident, alot of people were leaving before I prevail even preformed...
i’ll give TikTok one thing - at least Ghost are gaining enormous traction currently. Mary On A Cross and even Fleetwood Mac’s songs are some of the few songs blowing up through TikTok that i can appreciate gaining exposure. on the other hand, i’m starting to get bored of BMTH’s Can You Feel My Heart playing so often.
worst thing is all these ‘sLoWeD + rEvErB’ “songs” being EVERYWHERE. bruh. stop messing with my Nightcore childhood!
I was surprised when I was talking to this girl who said she liked ghost. I knew used tiktok a lot, but when I asked her what her favourite song was, she said Square Hammer. Now Idk if it popular on tiktok, as far as I know only Marry On Cross is the only one killing it right now, but I'm just glad people are finding Meliora. Steller album, though admittedly one of few of Ghost's works that I genuinely love.
"Stefan Fortig" Don't forget Pierce The Veil with King for a day recently and All Time Low with Dear Maria Count Me In in 2021
@@lethybridtheorygolucastheo2191 omg stop, i can’t listen to Dear Maria anymore because it’s just so overplayed.. especially considering ATL have so much better songs!
@@AtomicOpenHouse as far as i know it’s mostly Mary On A Cross trending hard, though i’ve seen a lot of Hunter’s Moon (probably because of Halloween) and Dance Macabre trending!
I think tiktok is a good way to introduce people to new music (I've personally found a lot of music that I've never heard of but really enjoy through the platform) but the problem is that with anything popular on tiktok it's hard to escape. I know a very big example of an artist's song becoming super popular and people going to their shows only knowing 1 song is Steve Lacey and Glass Animals. If you want to go to their shows, that's awesome! But not taking the time to listen to at least one album by that artist and leaving after [insert song that is popular on tiktok here] is really scummy.
Yeah I do agree with your point tiktok actually does have its pros and cons . More cons but tiktok did help introduce me to the music and artists I like now but it definitely sucks that people who only know one viral song from a artist goes to their concert and doesn’t take the time to decide if they actually like the artist music or just that one song.
I went to a Magdalena Bay concert last weekend and when they played Killshot, they played the reverb version for part of the song, which was interesting. I prefer the OG but I don't blame Mica and Matt for inserting it into the show, it probably earned them a lot of new fans, and they want to pay homage to that. But yeah as a fellow non TikTok user, I agree with all the points you made in this video.
THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING UP ON THIS! as someone who used to listen to nightcore and alvin and the chipmunks remixes IT GETS SO FUCKING OLD PLEASE STOP
I’m glad that I am not into TikTok. The problem is that those TikTok post have been reposted to other social media channels, and that is annoying (Not to mention that Instagram and UA-cam have similar features). Why can’t each platform have their own unique thing instead of copying each other?
Good lord I wish there was a feature to disable yt shorts.
@@resurrectthenight I could say the same about those Instagram reels
I never been on tiktok never will
The sped up versions is literally just Nightcore but on TikTok instead of here on UA-cam lmao
I really don't like nightcore/daycore/etc and sped up or slowed version. That's why when I use TikTok (and barely use it, only use it for watching cooking videos lmao) I always skip videos with those sped up/slowed songs and some terrible remix.
The most fucked up thing about sped up/slowed songs is some people called it "Tiktok REMIX" meanwhile it's just sped up/slowed of the actual songs. And the fact that currently some artists released the sped up/slowed version of their own song officially makes me really confused.
Not me getting tiktok ads in this vid
"Not me" shut the FUCK up with your tiktok slang
The fucking House of Memories "EP" that Panic! released is my least favourite thing Brendon has ever done
This video echoes my sentiments exactly.. So glad I realized early on that I'd never get my brain cells back after watching tik toc for a half hour early on..I'm fairly certain it was the "music" people were setting to their videos that drove me away.. Oh no oh no oh no!!
I can’t use TikTok I was born before 9/11
I have indeed found some artists I like via TikTok, but one of my biggest hangups even with original, non-meme songs on that platform is the seeming obsession with making things "relatable." Yes, individually those songs are quite nice, but there are only so many quarter-life crisis songs about feeling left behind in life that I can suffer in a row, y'know?
Using Steve Lacy as the thumbnail is nuts, Bad Habit is a very good track
Mary on a Cross blowing up is good because the snippet is pretty well representative of the rest of the song but what kills me is the nightcore’d first 10 seconds of Year Zero (BELIAL BEHOMOTH BEELZEBUB ASMODEUS SATANAS LUCIFER) because that version is not made by the band nor is it representative AT ALL of the rest of the song (the chorus is much catchier than the intro). Idk it pisses me off. Also like nobody realizes that those songs are by the same band
Its such a shame this video has so little attention, the whole internet needs to be aware of this nonsense that is ruining culture and internet content. I find it so annoying that tiktok """"music artists"""" will find some actually good song that doesnt need a slowed/sped up version, then add their stupid touch to them, put it in some slop video, and, act like they made some masterpiece. even worse, they'll probably get more attention than the original song. Then, it gets slowed or sped up even more by other """artists""" to the point where nobody can enjoy the original song anymore. Death. Culture is being ruined because now it seems to rely on the not even original form of song.
Album tracks that got popular on tik tok are mostly decent/good song:
- Enchanted (Taylor Swift)
- Don't Blame Me (Taylor Swift)
- House of Memories (P!ATD)
- The Shade (Rex Orange County)
Rex tho 😬
@@LUFC-yl2cd i'm talking about the music. Idgaf about his crime lol.
I use to love Enchanted so much as a kid, but when it blew up on Blandtok. I started hating it. This song won't be the same again 💀
When I saw House of Memories blowing up, I thought 'oh thats cool, it's a super underappreciated song from DOAB, nice that it's receiving the attention it deserves'. Only realised it was a TikTok hit when Brendon hastily dropped the House Of Memories EP on Spotify with a sped up and slowed down version. It would've been interesting if there was an acoustic version of the song instead but it really highlights how vibes matter more than substance even on songs that deserve the new attention
House of Memories is mostly popular in European and Asian countries. It is showed by the spotify chart.
Tik Tok has been so predictably boring.
That's why I love tool. They prohibit phones. Ive seen ppl get thrown out. When I've seen them they let you take photos or whatever for the last song. I'm bot saying it's wrong to take pics. But when all your doi g is whipping your phone out your losing the experience and distracting others. Can't tell you how many elbows I've been hit by because people are are going live for songs.
I'm glad I'm not alone!
Remember when he was big around 2016-17 with 8th and 9th graders, never knew why but the people who liked him were terminally on discord.
TikTok has turned the Hot 100 into a not very good weekly chart , and the overall quality has continued to decline, and also the competition has gotten weaker. I would imagine that the competition would for sure have been even more lackluster than it is right now, if not for that app.
There are actually various fake Kate Bush fans out there, like they only know "Running Up That Hill", and yet they still claim to be supposed fans, even though they only know that song.
“I summoned every neon sign that I own” . You also summoned me cause I love neon signs
Why listen to slowed down and reverbed pop songs when you can listen to darkwave? It's slow, full of reverb and that's how it's intended to be!
No but like the thing about going to concerts just for one song is so true cuz when I went to a twenty one pilots concert the people around me were so quiet and only really sang a long to their radio hits or songs popular on tiktok and it’s like why spnd that much money to only hear a few songs then be dead silent the rest of the concert. At least it wasn’t a ton of people being like that and only a few people, nothing compared to some of the concert clips I’ve seen from other artists
you know it's bad when people don't know who makes what they listen to tbh. I know people who exclusively listen to generic chillhop beats
You know what's gonna be sad? When one day, all the delusional people on Tik Tok (Who enjoy all of the sped up remix versions of songs) will call the remixed/ sped up versions of songs as the ACTUAL song. Imagine for example, Tik Tok speeds up '39 from Queen. And it blows up on Tik Tok. I'd personally be somewhat happy because I'm a Queen fan (And have been for 3 years) and it's a pretty underrated song, but if it gets to a point where the sped up version is recognised as the ACTUAL version, I'll lose my mind.
I usually try to get one good picture at a concert then I put the phone away. I will never understand recording the entire thing like some people do. It’s probably going to get lost in the camera roll and never viewed again. Posting on snap is dumb in general and even dumber posting 20 minutes of likely bad concert footage nobody else cares about.
0:40 eh, we did have flash mobs in the 2000s
To your last point about phone usage: for whatever reason, I used to record the entirety of shows. But lately, seeing my favorite bands for the first time in YEARS… all I’ve been doing is just living in the moment. And the spark I thought I was losing for concerts has been reignited. It’s been great. I highly recommend just allowing yourself to live in the moment at shows
I actually love slowed and reverb songs sometimes but I still listen to the normal one
Carmeldansen nightcore is the best version
I actually think the indie artists who blew up because of tiktok are much better then the ones pushed by the music industries publications.
I'm curious to check these out more, because I've gotten quite tired of the lounge-y indie moment we've been having for a few years now. Any good ones?
@@Morgan_L Engravings by Ethan Bortnick charted on the hot rock/Alternative songs chart recently and it's probably one of the weirdest songs to ever chart there. I think Tek It by Cafune and Sex Drugs Etc by Beach Weather are really relaxing songs. And I think Hotel by Montell Fish is pretty cool. It's got an extremally distorted instrumental that makes it sound like he's being drowned out by static but somehow, he makes it work
I heard Måneskin’s version of Beggin on Tiktok, fell in love and have been listening to all their music now, hopefully I’ll get to go see them live next week. 🙂 I wish I had more time to learn all the Italian songs!
I found out that Eurovision existed through the Will Ferrell movie in 2020, checked the 2021 winner out of curiosity and though "oh cool a rock band won". Been listening to them and loving it ever since
I love hearing rock/metal bands sing in their native language 😊
TikTok is like a cockroach. No matter how hard you try to get rid of it, it somehow manages to stay alive.
To me, the TikTok virality of music is whatever to me.
Better yet, whatever style of music I hear is not making me hate it as much as it should. It's just whatever to me.
Perfect example is "Bloody Mary" by Lady Gaga. Her song blew up on TikTok due to the sped up version being used to generate interest in the Wednesday Addams Netflix series (and because of the popular dance scene).
But, surprisingly, I like the original version, the sped up version and the slowed reverb version all the same. To me, the latter two are just accents to an already popular song.
I understand why people may feel a certain way about TikTok, but I just don't have the anger in me to criticize it when there are bigger and better things for me to complain about.
Shot horizontally:)
Can’t wait for the end of year lists so excited
Being on Tik Tok sounds dystopian...
Sped up music is the vain of my existence.
Literally the most laziest shit, and the fact that official artists post sped up versions on streaming services cough cough Tears For Fears and Micheal Buble cough cough. Gets my blood boiling.
I personally enjoy oliver tree, but the problem is people overuse his two most popular songs that i dont even like.. and tiktok imagines thats his whole discography sounds sh!tty, tiktok has ruined so many artists and peoples tastes in horrid music
Exactly, and people who don’t know much on him shit on people who like him for that
Not sure why my comment gets removed but, great study from Brown University: What Makes
TikTok so Addictive?: An Analysis of the
Mechanisms Underlying the World's Latest
Social Media Craze
It’s just that a bunch of teenagers(typically cringe ones) are the ones making/ interacting these songs so most of the songs are gonna be cringe .
TikTok in general is terrible
Just heard som terrible trashy TikTok remix of didos original banger thank you, and what the fuck the song went “my tea gone cold” x10 “ I wonder why” x10 then some terrible drop that does not fit and then repeat, and the Uber driver and i was like wtf is this crap 💩
how are there people going to whole concerts for only one or two songs, and only a part of the song at that???? it sounds like a waste of time and money. I can't imagine myself going to a concert for anyone if I haven't listened to at least most of their albums and enjoyed a lot of their songs, it's just baffling to me.
For those who are soon to have kids or already do have kids, make sure to limit their exposure to this mind-numbing drug of an app that is TikTok. Yes you can say the same about other social media apps in general, but arguably TikTok put the nail in the coffin.
Please, you will do the world a favor.
On one side TikTok has introduced me to some great songs/bands but other hand it seems to hurt concerts like the I Prevail tour with PTV where some only know King For A Day and leave right after PTV perform
Oof
The "using your cellphone during the whole concert" thing was before Tik Tok and I hate it.
Like, it's okay to take some photos or even film a video, but that's it. People's logic is to be filming 24/7 so then you can watch it again and again, but what about the experience? I'm not having any fun if I'm constantly holding my phone trying to have a good recording of the show. Maybe it's that I personally haven't been to much concerts. Idk.
But I completely agree with the way poeple make songs go viral. Yes, if I were an artist I'd be cool with it, since I know that when people hear my song on Tik Tok, no matter which version they've heard there, they go to the original and then that one goes viral. But, at the same time, I wouldn't care to put another version of my song just cause people are on my ass about it. If you want to listen to the song listen to the original, and if you don't like it go to Tik Tok.
I also don't get the "listen to the snippet part of a song a 1000M times". How can't you get sick of it? If I hear a song that I like and always hear a part multiple times, then, when I listen to the whole piece, it would stick out a lot and ends up really annoying me.
I'm not much into social media, but this is more of a general view on it, and not as if I were against it
As I always say, TikTok is where music goes to die.
This is positively why I will never go to TikTok ever again
The day I heard that a 5 minute song was considered "too long" that's when I decided I will never use TikTok.
I began to go for songs exceeding five to ten minutes in recent times, mostly obscure stuff.
Nearly 10 years ago we had Holy Grail by Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake absolutely dominate the charts, and that song was well over 5 minutes. And nowadays we hardly get songs dominate the charts that are over 3 minutes.
What bugs me about this new TikTok generation is not so much the new music they vibe with... I expect every generation should have musical interests of their own separate than what came before... and having said that, I've seen this trend where TikTok viral trends where they take an older song, say a song from the 90's and it's sped up and pitch shifted to sound generally faster and higher pitched... like people dancing to "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus... hey that was my song growing up, get yer own music you darned kids lol
they really turned Nirvana’s angsty and moody songs into EDM remixes.. yeahhh i’m all for remixing and stuff, but Nirvana of all bands just do not work with EDM.
YEAH THIS. TikTok taking old music and ruining it really bothers me
I mean most people have a terrible taste in music, we all like different things, different strokes for different folks, that’s all.
But there is just more bad music out there than good music, it’s not just music but movies as well, there are more bad movies than good movies out there.
But then again what is “good taste” when it comes to music?, is it a positive review from music critics?, because imo I don’t think so, most music critics are very snobbish to anything thats macho or crass.
Imo good taste in music is anything that’s not boring or annoying (like top 40 PoP, Indie music, Trap/Mumble Rap, or Radio music), or anything that’s weird or cringy (like Glam, Punk, Goth, Emo, or New Wave music). So if you don’t like any of that shit then you have good taste, but that’s just me.
Tiktok got me permanently banned once and had to verify my age for no reason even though my account says my real age(18)
The only concert I ever went to was RHCP and I can't imagine a bunch of people on there phones there lmao
I feel bad for Steve lacy. Dude is a real good musician and this tik tok stuff is ruining music lol
Hit it spot on. TikTok is absolutely ruining the music industry and the way people view music in general. It’s not about music or art anymore, it’s just about content, just about whatever you can cut and squeeze into a 15 second clip and that’s it. Specifically with the sped up/slowed down stuff, it was a BIG red flag for me to see bands like Panic! At The Disco release these stupid “remix” EPs with the sped up versions, and to see them charting higher than the original songs sometimes. It’s honestly appalling with TikTok is doing to our attention spans, the consumption of art and music, and our society as a whole.
This is why i never once used tiktok, after seeing from the outskirts how they be abusing my favorite songs lmao, house of memories my beloved, rest in peace, same with king for a day lol
I don't think your video comes off as preachy or like you're on a high horse or anything like that.
However, the general argument (not your argument specifically) tends to get really gatekeep-y, and can come off like "hey, you're enjoying music wrong".
Personally, I'm big into listening to artists' deep cuts, knowing the stories behind the songs, music theory, etc. all of that "deep" music stuff. But it's also totally okay just to like a chorus because it catches your ear and makes you wanna dance.
And TikTok or not, people are gonna miss the point of some songs no matter what you do. How many couples have played U2's "One" at a wedding, or how many people think "Semi-charmed Life" is a happy song.
I do enjoy watching some of the record companies thrown off their game by what has come from TikTok, so there's certainly some bias on my part.
I agree with the fake fans bit.
Me, only reading the title: you don't say?
TikTok must be banned. Look we have Instagram, Twitter, and UA-cam. Isn't that enough to get your music and entertainment out there.
As soon as you mentioned Ghost and Lorne Shore I became a fan.
I think the 'way the artist intented' argument is stupid because at the end of the day we aren't listening for the artisys
Next TikTok trend: backwards playing?
I went to my god-sister's 16th birthday party 2 weeks ago, she and her friends are VERY into tiktok. They had a live DJ and they would scream in excitement when a steve lacy or burna boy song came on... and knew NONE of the verses, just the hooks/choruses, and I can't even give them a pass for burna boy because we're all from the Caribbean and understand what he's saying very clearly. Also I was talking to this goth chick at a flea market booth selling band merch and she talked about liking Ghost and said her favourite song was mary on a cross, to which I replied "Oh from Seven Inches of Satanic Panic? I like Kiss The Go-Goat more, it's faster," To which she replied, "Seven Inches Of What?" Then I knew what I had gotten into.
Being interested, invested and willing to explore the music you like is really important. I found Brand New because of a video you made with limosine, liked it, checked them out and before you know it im buying their vinyls. I also met one of my old E-Girlfriends (cringe, i know) on the Brand New subreddit, and because of her and the Brand New Radio on spotify i found amazing small bands like The Republic Of Wolves, Out of Service, Microwave, Prince Daddy and The Hyena, Choir Vandals and so much more. All because I took interest and looked for what I liked.
Take the initiative. Music isn't just a hobby, it shows you more media, takes you places, and being fans of the same small artist is one of the tightest bonds you can have.
"TikTok's aTTention span Taste in music is Terrible"
Constant headache by Joyce manor, Betrayal of Fear by Gouskan, and the My Singing Monsters soundtrack sound good slowed and reverbed ngl. especially cold island and magical sanctum. granted, I listen to the whole song. I deleted Tik Tok bc it sucks.
Preach my man