Don’t be duped by the millennial whoop
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millennial whoop
articles
- The Millennial Whoop: A glorious obsession with the melodic alternation between the fifth and the third, by Patrick Metzger; published at The Patterning, 20 August 2016
- Republished at Slate on 29 August 2016 under the title The Millennial Whoop: The Simple Melodic Sequence That’s Showing Up All Over Contemporary Pop
- “The Millennial Whoop”: The same annoying whooping sound is showing up in every popular song, by Adam Epstein; published at Quartz (qz.com) on 27 August 2016
- What is the ‘millennial whoop’ and why is it in every pop song? by ; published at USA Today, 29 August 2016
- The Millennial Whoop: the melodic hook that’s taken over pop music, by Gavin Haynes; published at The Guardian on 30 August 2016
- What Is The Millennial Whoop? Once You Hear This Virulent Pop Hook You Won’t Be Able To Unhear It, by Barry Bartleet; published at NME, 1 September 2016
- TEDx Talk: Beyond the Millennial Whoop – Keep Pop Music Weird — published at The Patterning, 28 February 2017 — The article features the video of the Patrick Metzger TEDx Talk at Koç University in Istanbul on December 2016 (see below), announcing its release, and includes the “full text of the talk with reference links.”
(below) Why do so many pop songs sound the same? | Patrick Metzger | TEDx Talk at Koç University in Istanbul, December 2016
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other videos on the “millenial whoop”
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some relevant links
Google searches
- millennial whoop
- Fleisch-Kinkaid readability tests
- dynamic range compression
- compression is killing music
related article
- Scientists Just Discovered Why All Pop Music Sounds Exactly the Same, by Tom Barnes; published at Mic.com, 7 January 2015
book
- The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook (2015)
songwriter/producers
- Max Martin
- Wikipedia
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (inducted, 2017)
- Ask Billboard: Max Martin Has Written How Many Hot 100 Top 10s?! by Gary Trust, 18 August 2015 (answer: 58 top 10 hits, as of 18 August 2015)
- Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald
on songs that sound alike
- Sounds Just Like
- That Song Sounds Like
- video
- 4 Chords — The Axis of Awesome
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Don’t be duped by the millennial whoop, or any of the other tricks of the modern pop music factories.
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