{"id":1976,"date":"2020-12-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5fdb7c83c43a7367defef3e5"},"modified":"2020-12-21T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T15:00:00","slug":"a-year-in-music-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authoritydaily.com\/a-year-in-music-on-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year in Music on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A strange remix shot up the Billboard Hot 100, after creators on TikTok started dancing and posing to it. It was \u201cRoses” by the Guyanese-American rapper SAINt JHN<\/a>, which a Kazakh teenager named Imanbek had pitched and sped up, adding a bouncy bassline in the process. In June, the electronic musician Jaime Brooks of Default Genders<\/a> tweeted<\/a> about it, wondering: \u201cIs this the first nightcore chart hit?\u201d<\/p>\n

Named after a Norwegian duo who sped-up trance and eurodance tracks, \u201cnightcore<\/a>\u201d in the colloquial, watered-down sense refers to cover tracks that accelerate the source material by 10-30%, generating chipmunk-y vocals; on YouTube, the thumbnails are often anime-related images. Perhaps extending from their relative ubiquity on TikTok\u2019s predecessor Musical.ly, nightcore audios have a strong<\/a> presence<\/a> on the app; so do their opposites, \u201cdaycore<\/a>\u201d or \u201canti-nightcore<\/a>\u201d remixes, in which tracks are slowed down for a heady, sluggish effect. Go another step further, and you have the highly controversial \u201cslowed + reverb<\/a>,\u201d pejoratively referred to as \u201cgentrified chopped and screwed<\/a>.\u201d Listening to all these manipulated tracks disrupts your perception of time: When I heard Grover Washington Jr. and Bill Withers\u2019 1980 song \u201cJust the Two of Us<\/a>\u201d on the app, I was surprised to realize its speed hadn\u2019t been altered, especially because some \u201cJust the Two of Us\u201d TikToks<\/a> I\u2019d seen had slowed down the visuals.<\/p>\n

The presence of so many different remixing styles reaffirm the desire among teenagers to customize music to their own specific scenarios. One series on YouTube imagines songs from the perspective of someone crying inside a bathroom at a party<\/a>, aligning with the ethos of TikTok\u2019s \u201cpov<\/a>\u201d videos, in which creators inhabit an alternative point of view. (For example, the perspective of the girl who finds<\/em> you<\/a> crying in the bathroom.) The remixes also affects artists\u2019 own promotional strategies: Last year, after a slowed version of Lykke Li\u2019s \u201csex money feelings die\u201d boomed on the app, her label RCA released an official slowed version<\/a> of the 2018 song. The remixes are a little lazy, and often too functional to be interesting, establishing TikTok as a base for cut-and-paste listening.<\/p>\n

Ethan Fields\u2019 Music Memes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The musician Ethan Fields first attracted my attention with his flashy series of mashups, in which he answers hypotheticals like \u201cWhat if Katy Perry\u2019s \u201cLast Friday Night\u201d Was Made by 100 gecs?<\/a>\u201d and \u201cWhat if La Roux\u2019s \u201cBulletproof\u201d Was Made by Two Door Cinema Club?<\/a>\u201d But his greatest work is a set of highly sarcastic quarantine-themed jingles, each one catchy and great for office commiserating<\/a>. \u201cI worked for five minutes, so it\u2019s time to take a break,\u201d he sings chipperly in my favorite one. For those seeking more specialized music content, check out his crazy TikTok about shoegaze<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Addison Rae Listened to MF Doom\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to knock dancing videos on TikTok, because what the genre usually evokes is shirtless white boys dice-rolling<\/a> to Pop Smoke, himbos investing their collective brainpower into sexualizing the same five dance moves. In response to these peers, some TikTokers have created their own parody dances<\/a>, woah-ing and ass-shaking to weird audios<\/a>. Others have seen dance crazes as an opportunity to promote less conventional music. Following the mission to \u201cnormalize playing experimental rap in front of the hoes,\u201d for example, a group of guys at North Carolina State University imagined what it\u2019d look like if Addison Rae danced to MF DOOM, hip-swaying and nose scrunching to Madvillain\u2019s \u201cRaid.\u201d Meanwhile, at their fans\u2019 request, the rowdy friends behind @basementgang have vibed to soca<\/a>, K-pop<\/a>, and Bollywood music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even if creators\u2019 enjoyment is masked behind an ironic\u2014and sometimes sexist\u2014premise, these videos ultimately confirm that dancing is fun for everyone. As seen with Doja Cat\u2019s \u201cSay So<\/a>,\u201d a good dance greatly enhances the listening experience: Now choreography is no longer just for major pop and hip-hop songs, but even modest bedroom pop numbers like Frances Forever<\/a>\u2019s \u201cSpace Girl.\u201d (Thanks to a cute dance<\/a> popular among indie girls and nonbinary people, it hit No. 2 on the Spotify Viral Chart in early December.) I\u2019m personally fond of the self-proclaimed \u201cdance captain of the sad girl club,\u201d a ballet dancer named Claire<\/a>, who serves up choreography for all your indie faves, like Mitski, Alvvays, and Courtney Barnett. Before the weather got cold, a few friends and I gathered in the park and learned her motions to Snail Mail\u2019s \u201cPristine,\u201d thinking about how nice it was to be outside, hang out together, and move our bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A strange remix shot up the Billboard Hot 100, after creators on TikTok started dancing and posing to it. It was \u201cRoses” by the Guyanese-American rapper SAINt JHN, which a Kazakh teenager named Imanbek had pitched and sped up, adding a bouncy bassline in the process. 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