Were There Any New Genres In The 2010s?
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2024
- Every decade has spawned new genres of music: Rock in the 50s, hip hop in the 80s, etc. So what about the most recent full decade: the 2010s? Has musical innovation slowed to the point where no significant new genres have emerged? Or was the decade, in fact, full of innovation; you just had to know where to look? Well if the length of this video is any indication, it turns out it's the latter. There were a TON of new genres, more than we could include even in a 1 hour+ video.
Check out the podcast follow-up to the video on Patreon! / podcast-3-new-of-10294...
There were so many songs featured in this video, we cannot list them like we normally do. So please refer to the titles in the video to ID a specific track. OR, check out this Spotify playlist, which has every song in the order it was included: open.spotify.com/playlist/6y7... (minus the ones that aren't on Spotify)
2:37 Alternative R&B
3:58 Drill
5:52 Afrobeats
10:02 Neoperreo
14:11 Chillwave
18:29 Cloud Rap
25:11 Vaporwave
33:12 Hyperpop
39:43 SoundCloud Rap
45:51 Witch House
47:01 Amapiano
49:25 Phonk
50:36 Funk Mandelão
52:19 Egg Punk
53:51 HexD
55:36 Jizz Jazz
58:17 City Pop Revival & Future Funk
Editing by @sedatefobia
Thumbnail by Party Kaleta - Розваги
Hey friends, there's a follow-up podcast to this video here on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/podcast-3-new-of-102945329
Also, you can check out a playlist of these songs (in order) here: open.spotify.com/playlist/6y792siRSJpSRMfz0o01F6
Lil B being one of the first to sample a city pop song is more proof he's the most influential artist of the 2010s.
It’s crazy how much that changed the music landscape after him
Thank you based god!!!!!
Only huge omission I can think of is bedroom pop, which I feel maintains the nostalgia present in a lot of these genres but also looks to take the mass corporatization of music through streaming services and put it back in the hands of DIY artists (though there were/are many artists who only became big due to industry connections) I think Bedroom pop draws from Mac Demarco in a big way as well, artists like Clairo, Billie Eilish, Gus Dapperton etc all stem from his seemingly DIY internet aesthetic imo. Great video though as always, one of your best!
You're totally right, but I could see that being an honourable mention like 'Jizz Jazz' did (even though it is far more defined movement).
Yeah Clairo and Billie Eilish, real salt of the earth upbringings there. TOTALLY DIY lol
@@OccasionalNASCARRaceshence the caviat I put in paranthesis...
Yeah, Cavetown and Chloe Moriondo are two more.
@@OccasionalNASCARRacesYeah but if you look at a lot of smaller artists in this genre and the artists that were spiritual predecessors they were undoubtedly DIY
I'm nearly 60 and I'm relieved to find that I wasn't completely lost by this iceberg. I've heard of Drill, Chillwave and Vaporwave, so I guess all is not lost. :P
good job oldtimer!
Just found out that cloud rap and soundcloud rap are different things
bruh
Yeah, I thought the cloud in cloud rap was an abbreviation of soundcloud
yeah Chillwave and Vaporwave being different surprised me.
one is genre based one era based
@bryson0206 One genre is also based
wake up babe, new bandsplaining!
Brazil and Post Soviet countries have a lot more in common than you think. As a Ukrainian, our humor matches almost perfectly.
>lots of political turmoil in the past
>kinda western, but also culturally distinct from the US & western europe
Yeah, I can see it. I feel like I'm missing a lot though. Could you elaborate on other similarities?
@@honeycomblord9384I agree. I’m intrigued as well.
Please, share more about this.
As much bad rap 4chan gets, /mu/ essentially established most of the genres on this iceberg. When I was browsing back in the early 10s, you would be bombarded with artists you would normally never consider or hear about.
/mu/ and we are the music makers seem to be where the barely functional psychopaths hang out.
As ruthless as /mu/ and /fa/ are, you can't deny they're usually way ahead of the game in terms of trends
Those 4chan charts about “how to get into… x” where really great for finding cool music/film/anime
I remember back then 4chan had a music thread archive dating months back. Each thread was hardcore genre specific with zip files that somehow contained indie artists from decades past that barely managed to get played in their own town but by a miracle, tracks were captured then digitalized.
It was a dream. 07' started to really get interested in genres and sounds then was recommended 4chan by a friend.
As someone that worked to shift the music selection played at an indie hipster bar I bartended at in the 2010s from the mandated late 90s - early 00s - owner burned CD only rule - to current music (at the time), this video was such a validation of all the time I spent digging for music instead of hanging out with real life people. The 2010s was such a rad time for music.
I feel so fortunate to have come of age when vaporwave was on the come up! I'll always appreciate the unique way it resonated with my teenage experience and reflected the world around me.
Such a wistful and beautiful genre.
Me too
its insane how much it influences to this day. the whole shopping mall aesthetic leading to liminal spaces which now lead to the entire genre of liminal horror and analogue horror. its all connected to a point. its the jazz of the 2010s.
Holy smokes... Was not prepared for the mini vaporwave documentary, but I loved it!
I love Boards of Canada, Washed Out, Toro y Moi, and Neon Indian!!!!
Your essays are my music magazines now (I'm old! A mid-80s YA in my late 50s....). Thank you for what you do!!!
One scene or genre that I felt u missed is the whole Atlanta rap. Artists like young thug, future, travis scott, lil baby, all had this weird autotune-y sound that sort of blended together with trap/edm/pop sounds, interestingly. Also often trying really weird quirky flows, and making it work somehow hahahah (a la young thug - lifestyle).
I liked your take on how a lot of 2010s genres sort of melt into the nostalgia bucket, but I’d argue that genre/scene tried to create something new.
Thanks for the video, it was a great watch. 😮
One genre that's been around since the 90s but really blew up in the 2010s was dungeon synth. Lofi fantasy beats to play dnd to.
Shout-out to the 2023 film Riddle Of Fire for giving dungeon synth a boost! It's especially great for that old-school kinda D&D, it's gonna sound great while playing an OSR game.
I remember telling a friend about a spin-off from dungeon synth called dino synth...basically one band (Diplodocus) incorporating midi-esque primal sounds in a hilarious semi-parody.
Later that night, someone dl'ed that album from me on Soulseek, and I was thinking: 'But that band is really frikkin obscure..'
(Okay, and now I'm discovering that in the meantime youtube has gotten a playlist of various dino synth bands..)
Does anyone else think that Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's PonPonPon was the first hyperpop hit? Both in terms of the sound and the aesthetic. That still puts it in the 2010s but I've always been surprised that she doesn't get mentioned as one of the founding artists of the genre.
First time hearing/watching this -- wild 😂. But the one thing it's lacking is that super prominent and glitchy bass. It's that "aphex twin" factor that made Sophie/AG Cook/PC Music stand out so much. The funny thing is, nowadays the term "hyperpop" is used so broadly, this would probably be labeled as such if it were released today.
Also, I regret excluding j-pop from this segment. When researching, I was reading message boards where people made convincing arguments that eurodance/chiptune/crunkcore were foundational to hyperpop. But later I realized that j-pop and k-pop were huge influences to PC Music. Alas.
@@Bandsplaining Thanks for replying, and glad I could introduce you to Kyary - she's fun. That's a great point about the bass. Kyary's backing track is occasionally a little chopped but not nearly as weird and glitchy as anything SOPHIE made for sure. Kyary was also a major label artist and I feel like there's an interesting story about how some of these mainstream hits got taken underground and turned into new genres. Like I think vaporwave owes something to the French late 00's artists Danger and Kavinsky aesthetically but is obviously a lot weirder and more experimental.
I feel like a big genre that was missed was corridos tumbados. While originating in large part in Mexico, it also developed a lot within the Southwest near the US-Mexican border. It is pretty big within the charts and if you were to go down to the Southwest you would hear it all over the place, especially with in places with a lot of Mexican communities and influence
I honestly adore this Chanel so much. I’ve recently gone down the hypnogogic pop/James Ferraro rabbit hole my self, so it’s nice to see it being talked about here. Honestly James Ferraro is just incredible with how much he’s influenced😮 underground music. He was friends with Yves Tumor, he’s been involved with Dean Blunt/Hype Williams. He’s in the centre of a who’s who for underground music imo. Could make for an interesting video.
Excellent video! Not bogged down with irrelevant details, but not just scratching the surface either.
I don't know why I was so shocked to see "hexD" mentioned, it was just so surprising.
Yeah haha
"I'm a piano" - Bandsplaning, 2024
Really though great video as always, thanks!
i'm so happy to see that neoperreo gets the shout out it deserves, great research btw, as a latino i have to say thank you for making this video
btw "perreo" is not necessarily "twerk" is more or less mimicking s**ual actions with someone while dancing to the beat, idk if there's a name for a dance like that in english lol
aunque tomasa del real sea una mala persona, pero bueno muchas veces tenemos que separar la obra del artista
@@el.changu mala persona???;(
I wouldn't say that any of this is "bad" or "worse than prior decades" but goddamn if there wasn't another decade that can trigger a feeling of amusia or whatever, where you aren't able to really perceive the music in the same way as music of prior decades. 2010s had a feeling of hazed-out drifting in many of these genres, but the more dance-oriented ones are actually quite futuristic, and can go into some high bpms, at least higher than prior decades in conventional music. But yeah.
The sound of my synapses connecting ty this connects a lot of things together for me
Every time I watch a video from this channel I need to have Spotify open to save the songs in my playlists. 😆
u continue to be one of the best music history channels!
Vaporwave and Lo-Fi House were my most listened to new genres... Easily. Both had so much going for them, but for the most part, it was the whole ''home-made'' thing about them both that made them great. It brought back the ''anyone can have a go and maybe get time to be listened to'' thing.
In a world where pop stars egos had gone stratospheric, faceless music was much more appealing. Plus, of course, the nostalgia factor.
Absolutely love your presenting style. Comes across great when filmed instead of just voiceover.
Sweet! This channel is gold for music nerds. Really glad I found your channel :) Keep up the good work!
There's a ton of genre missing from the 2010's like future bass, future house, future bounce ("future" is to the 10s what the word "wave" was in the 80s), brazilian bass, g-house, bass house, midtempo, moobahcore, moombahton, hitek, complextro, all the subgenre of dubstep like tearout, riddim, brostep, hybrid trap... And it's just in the electronic scene (which I'm more familiar with) but there's probably a ton of other that deserve a mention
You could also argue; lofihouse, lofihiphop, Shangaan Electro, Neo-Tropical, Footwork (While a thing in chigago Addison's Groove started a UK take on it along with Jungle/footwork hybrids and something like clap!clap!, Bubblegum bass, deconstructed club could have been coined any age but it def fits with the 2010s, whatever you'd call the psych-y sound of artists like barrio lindo, nicola cruz, dengue dengue dengue & chancha via circuita. Maybe Thrash Rap too, though I think prob falls under horrorcore
Great work Man! Loved the diverse mix of music and deep dive ✨
Amazing video! I think I need to check out some of those artists mentioned that I didn't know of yet (or didn't gave a big chance). :)
I think another "genre" that would have been (weird but) interesting is Vocaloid. Although I don't really like to "claim" it as a genre since VOCALOID is a vocal synthesizer from Yamaha. The whole topic is craaazy - been in the fandom for some years and tried it out myself. But Vocaloid is so much more than just the software. Beginning at the various voicebanks with Miku Hatsune being the most famous one but there are a BUNCH - no, a TON of other voicebanks and almost all of them got their one character design. The voicebanks are recorded from real professionals for example the voice behind Miku Hatsune is voice actress Saki Fujita, Miriam Stockley is the voice of MIRIAM, Gackpoid/Gakupo has the voice of japanese rock legend Gackt and so on. But the first Vocaloids were LEON, LOLA (both english) and MEIKO and KAITO (both japanese). There are Vocaloids or rather voicebanks in spanish, korean, japanese, english and mandarin.
There is another software based of VOCALOID called UTAU which allows everyone to create their own voicebank and do their of covers. You don't even need to work a lot on those covers, just import the correct files, maybe edit it a bit and bam - got your own cover (mostly for funsies but if you but more effort in it shows). You can also upload your voicebank so other people can work with your voice/UTAU.
Also there are VOCALOID live concerts, Miku Hatsune being one of Lady Gaga's opening acts some years ago etc. There are also some western artists using/experimenting with VOCALOID like Anamanaguchi and Porter Robinson (who got his own official Vocaloid lately).
Some of the most famous j-pop artists originated from this area like Eve (Vocaloid Producer and Singer), Kenshi Yonezu (know as vocaloid producer HachiP) and Ado (heavy influece from Vocaloid songs). And then there is this (slightly disturbing and) almost end of the Vocaloid iceberg with producers like kikuo and their... songs. I guess Vocaloid would be an iceberg in an iceberg. But maybe worth mentioning. Peace :)
About time we got another vid!
I think that although chillwave originated in the late 00s, it could be considered a "cusp" genre with its heyday being in the late 00s/early 10s
Out of all the music in your video, yours is my favorite. It's really good!
Amazing video, thank you for your work !
Great video as always, Bandsplaining. Although, you forgot Scottish Celtic Folk Rock but hopefully, maybe a future video can describe that genre of music and the revival that created it. 🏴🏴🏴
great video! so rare for me to find a music nerd on yt that i actually agree with, other genres that could go on this list:
chicago footwork (technically been around since way earlier but exploded in the 2010s)
qgom (massive in south africa)
hard drum (i dont like the name but its pretty solidified as a genre now, origins from like 2015)
Big respect to some of these mentions like Cities Aviv and Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza (RIP), also laughed at the me jumpscare, thanks lol.
Great vid!
glad afrobeat and Fela Kuti got a mention afrobeats makes my searching obscure afrobeat bands difficult
Ive never known how to feel about the collective nostalgia movement. It's more a misremembering than an homage, and though its subtly self-aware in that regard, it doesnt make the lie any less so. I'm not saying I dont enjoy the music, but there's always a hmm feeling when it tries to square with my experiences of those decades.
Great video, although im not a fan of using an iceberg as the structure. Usually an iceberg represents a very wide dive into the topic, with many (50+) examples and very obscure topics near the bottom. Almost everything in this video is quite popular
Yeah for sure 😅. It's kind of a bastardization of the iceberg model. But we tested different methods, like going in chronological order from year-to-year, and this style seemed to work best. We could quickly cover the more mainstream genres at the start, and then make the more interesting genres like vaporwave/hyperpop the more "meat" of the video. Anyway thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it nonetheless!
Awesome video! It looks like the Meta Trend of 2010s Music was a kind of dreamy digital synth sound. I wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't for a summary like this!
If any of you guys were interested in Egg punk, definitely check out Prison Affair. You can go through their entire discography in about 20 minutes and its so fun. Def recomend.
It's very easy to see why the Amen break is used over and again. It takes a special someone to flip the soundtrack to "my cavities getting filled" or "there is an unauthorized charge on my credit card".
Powerful documentary right here. Some fun stuff.
I dig various degrees of OPN's discography yet had no idea they were a pioneer of vaporwave lmao.
Me neither that was a weird link. I associated OPN more with Warp records “newer” sounds.
cool stuff! missed 70-80% of these at the time, gonna catch up now :)
Great video! If you do a part 2: Jersey Club, Donk and Future Bounce
this video put a lot of perspective on my childhood listening, thanks dude
I don't wanna be THAT guy but to describe Funk Mandelão you used: A tiktok ass brazilian funk song in *spanish* > Actual mandelão > Funk carioca 150 bpm. Also, it really comes from São Paulo.
No offense taken 😅. These were all songs labeled "Funk Mandelão" on RYM (which is how I found them) but obviously tracks can be labeled with multiple genres at the same time. Just out of curiosity, which one do you consider to be "true" Funk Mandelão?
Funny enough a lot of these genres are popular now more than ever and have even evolved into this decade
Very interesting video, any chance you'll do this for the 2000s?
Always a good day when upload
Damn good video mate
Love the concept
that thumb nail hit me with nostalgia big time
Read somewhere that Mac DeMarco's is called "Bedroom Pop"? But idk
I'm really enjoying this video. You always make great shit.
i love how i was there when most of these genres were coming up, kinda feels like i was a part of something, the culture, my generation, and it all happened on the internet; i dont think growing up online was that bad, it still feels nice to look back at what id discovered throughout that time
im pretty excited for what the 2020s got in store, as it seems that its gona be abrasive cuz of the covid brain damage and being chronically online becoming the default, and not a counter-culture; seems that we've started with the resurgence of breakcore to sustain our overstimulated adhd brains
i hope i dont lose touch with the new stuff and i can look back satisfied again
Happy to see my love egg punk in here
fantastic video. just wanted to say that.
This was really well done. Good cultural context for the 2010s as a decade
your nuanced appreciation of xxxtentacion's music is appreciated
I’ve been calling it Post-Demarco instead of jizz jazz for years now. You just reinforced that in your video. I wish it would catch on.
You're the second person to comment this in less than 2 hours. Either that's a big coincidence or you're onto something...
thank you for the nostalgia trip 😅
do one for the 2020s i know there's barely anything new thats gotten big yet but it would still be pretty interesting
Nice coverage. Only new thing I can think to add would maybe be Blackgaze
I know you said you weren't including dubstep since it technically originated in the 00s, but damn if it didn't have a huge impact on 2010's music (i would argue that it reached it's peak popularity during this time) and can be found in a lot of hyperpop too.
oh yeah, dubstep was around, but the stuff that most people think of when they hear the word dubstep is brostep. which im pretty sure started in like 2010 and 2011. it also was hugely influental too.
Your Boards of Canada "Chillwave" was all actually a genre called "Ambient" or sometimes "Ambient Downtempo", a classification from around 1999 popularized in rave culture starting around 2001 when it became a staple of "chill rooms" across the underground scene.
Totally. So BoC isn’t chillwave, nor are they new music of the 2010s. I just brought them up as an example of “hauntology” because this was the philosophical basis for so much 2010s music.
@@BandsplainingAhh that makes way more sense, I think I misunderstood there because it's become fairly common for BoC to have "Chillwave" attached to their music as of late. They were also a major influence over the whole "Ambient Downtempo" wave that hit around the early/mid 2000's so much that at times it was hard to tell if the chill room music was BoC or not.
Any South Africans here? That AmaPiano reference came from nowhere lol
Yep..... those genre labels sure do help people navigate past the crap.
Whoever said labelling music into genres was a bad idea WAS WRONG.
genres and subgenres themselves are cool and interesting. bitching about and gatekeeping genres is the annoying part. people who say genres as a concept are bad probably have never tried to find cool music themselves.
Make one of these for all the decades pls
man oh man i wish dream sequins got a shout in the vaporwave part, one of my favorite albums ever. it’s one of those albums i think is unexplainably good. you just have to listen.
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏 learned alot ❤❤❤
loved this alot, thanks
NEOPERREO MENTIONED!!!! CHILE MNTIONED!!!!
its always funny to me how future funk is just french house/filter house but with longer samples. house beats, compressed / sidechained 70s/80s funk an disco samples and playing with filters. they just added japan and anime lol.
I think you're overlooking the influence of nostalgia on 2010s metal, particularly in the heavy and thrash subgenres. Ghost would be the biggest mainstream example.
only thing i can think of being left out is trap metal. it kinda derived from soundcloud rap but i think its unique enough to be considered its own and seperate from soundcloud rap or rap rock. just listen to scarlxrd or city morgue youll get the idea
I understand you only have so much time, but Flamingosis could have been a great mention during Future Funk, as he pops up so much if you listen to acts like Yung Bae, Macross 82-99, and Saint Pepsi (Skylar Spence). If there could be an "English/American" version of City Pop Revival, I feel like Flamingosis fits the bill.
This video led me to finally listening to I'm God, which led me to removing over half of the albums I had given 5 stars on rym; It was such a good song, I genuinely had to redefine what a 10/10 even meant.
HexD is EXACTLY the shit i got into because of FranzJ, these pixelated, nostalgic hip hop beats or trance music. Hoo boy.
Also purity filter is a bit of a deep cut in a deep cut, but i love them.
For metal I believe Thall was invented in the 2010s. It is a cousin of djent.
Hooray, an iceberg video! I do hope there's an reaction video next. Churn that content! Churn it! Chuuuuurn it!
ty for the shoutout
I guess one genre that could be included is "crank wave" in reference to all those post-punk bands that have popped up in the late 2010s such as Idles, Squid, BCNR, Black Midi, Shame, Fontaines DC, etc. They all have a rather dark and angry tone and while it's not always screamed, it's rather common that it has a lot of talking or not the best singing. Their sound can also be rather experimental in a few ways, not really leaning towards the eventual new wave of the first wave or the garage rock of the second one. Some attribute the sound and message to the discourse post-Brexit and the current daily life problems that have arisen over time (I mean, not all are British but still). I don't like how one journalist gave it that name, makes me think of crunk. I've always called it "third wave post-punk" or "second post-punk revival".
SGP raider crew is tuff af
I’m thinking of a load of bands who were acoustic, but whispery(Mimicking Birds, etc), plus the bands in the same lane as Lord Huron or Iron and Wine.
It was never labeled properly (besides AAA) in the 90s, nor later as far as I know.
Just saw Ariel live for the second time recently and its cool to see fright night here. Such a joy to see live
rip SOPHIE man
Great video but it's a shame the genre selection is so pop/hip-hop heavy. I suppose since these are the most mainstream and internet influenced genres it's expected that most of the online discourse surrounding new music would be about them, however there's a discussion to be had about the most innovative and hyped up things onn the offline underground scene. Crank-wave, Anatolian rock revival, whatever you call the jazz sound Shabaka Hutchings pioneered etc. are all trends in music I've heard everywhere in the late 10s, yet there's not an online presence of people categorizing them and dissecting them the same way there is around pop and hip hop.
I would say that you've missed out UK Techno / Bass Music, a direct evolution of OG dubstep, with labels such as Hessle Audio, Livity Sound and Timedance pushing the genre forward. Many of the artists previously contributed to dubstep. The tracks have the emptyness and soundsystem culture influence of dubstep, but with a more techno inspired bass focus. Really was at it's peak in the mid oughts, and I would say has already evolved into something else in recent years.
Disappointed to find out that "Jizz Jazz" isn't just songs in the stylings of the Cantina band from Star Wars
Respect
it's nice to see ginger root on there.
As a solid millennial I find this whole video wierd and scary. 😂
No, but seriously, this was quite interesting.
BTW, what do you think about bardcore?
BRAZIL MENTIONED 🇧🇷
Hexd getting its flowers hell yeah
This whole time I was expecting Ray Romano since he was your avatar...
Ray Romano only makes a brief appearance around the 55 minute mark if I'm remembering correctly