The Music of Consoom -

[Big Nasty]

What kind of music or music artists exemplify the current consoomer mindset? Give me your thoughts!

 

[Ita Mori]

Anything from Cardi-B or Future; producing album after album within weeks of each other with a quality to match.
Fast food music for ex-farming equipment and their enablers.

 

[Lone MacReady]

Wasn't Bohemian Rhapsody written by just one guy? Meanwhile how many bell curve residents does it typically take to "write" a 2-minute boon boon Beyonce song? Like 8?

 

[Positron]

"You should never be ashamed to have it all"

 

[Large]

Wasn't Bohemian Rhapsody written by just one guy? Meanwhile how many bell curve residents does it typically take to "write" a 2-minute boon boon Beyonce song? Like 8?

How many songwriters does it take to change a lightbulb

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Anything by Katy Perry.

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

Billie Eilish always screamed "industry plant" to me, with the way she always seemed to have an opinion on everything in US politics, would mysteriously have all these large opportunities (such as playing in the DNC or having an oddly hyped Apple TV+ documentary). Something about her always felt off, but I could never put my finger on what it was.

KPop artists also feel like they were created and focused tested in a lab to generate artists that have the maximum appeal to teenage girls.

 

[All Cops Are Based]

Billie Eilish always screamed "industry plant" to me, with the way she always seemed to have an opinion on everything in US politics, would mysteriously have all these large opportunities (such as playing in the DNC or having an oddly hyped Apple TV+ documentary). Something about her always felt off, but I could never put my finger on what it was.

KPop artists also feel like they were created and focused tested in a lab to generate artists that have the maximum appeal to teenage girls.

The first thing was confirmed a long time ago.

The second thing hasn't been confirmed yet but I suspect it's also true

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Neither is very current, but the seeds they sown have matured by now.

 

[Tism the Return]

You ever hear lazy, low-energy kids rhyming and making wordplay to some machine-generated garbage in the background while other sheltered, pretentious kids do the Nintendo wojak face?

 

[OvercookedBacon]

You ever hear lazy, low-energy kids rhyming and making wordplay to some machine-generated garbage in the background while other sheltered, pretentious kids do the Nintendo wojak face?

No, and I don't want to, either.

 

[Mal0]

How do we differentiate between consoomer and just popular music?

For example, every FRIENDS watching, DoorDash using, Amazon Prime friend that I have play nothing but songs like Don't Stop Believing, Bohemian Rhapsody, Carry On My Wayward Son, etc.

Are those consoomer songs, or just popular?

 

[KhorneFlakes]

Wasn't Bohemian Rhapsody written by just one guy? Meanwhile how many bell curve residents does it typically take to "write" a 2-minute boon boon Beyonce song? Like 8?

this made me laugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZzQMwN7Us8&ab_channel=Poppy

 

[admiral]

Easy- Music remixes with the same royalty-free samples and beats lazily thrown on top that rake in millions of streams on youtube and soundcloud. It's not that hard to take some catchy anime music (HXH is a popular one), slap a trap beat and some distortion on it and get a shit load of attention. It's the evolution of the lofi trend from a few years back, when everyone was ripping off LofiHipHop and Chilled Cow.

There are some amazing music mashups and remixes out there, but for every masterful one there are 5000 shitty ones.

 

[mindlessobserver]

 

[Dysnomia]

Wasn't Bohemian Rhapsody written by just one guy? Meanwhile how many bell curve residents does it typically take to "write" a 2-minute boon boon Beyonce song? Like 8?

Hair metal bubblegum pop hit Cherry Pie was written on the back of a pizza box in a couple of minutes. By one guy. So how are all these vapid pop songs so damn complicated to make now?

I have a theory that there are pro songwriters who owe or want future favors. So they just add their friends to the credits of whatever has been manufactured to win the most Grammys that year.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Whatever the song is in this video.

 

[Brigada]

There are some amazing music mashups and remixes out there, but for every masterful one there are 5000 shitty ones.

isnt that music and art in general though?

 

[admiral]

isnt that music and art in general though?

Not just that, it's all consumable products. It's harder to mass produce a shitty version of a symphony or a marble sculpture than it is a remix of Guts' theme, though. Consooming is all about trends too, and the trend at the minute is for remixes.

Whatever the song is in this video.

 

[WolfeTone]

That's an easy one