• foggianism@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    7 hours ago

    I wanna hear her songs in the genres of:

    Serbian Turbo Folk

    Euro Dance

    Doo-Wop

    Bebop

    Ex-Yu Rock

    Bosnian Sevdalinka

    Techno

    Dance/House

    New Jack Swing

    • nomen_dubium@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      that time she released that album under the name ‘tool’ and it topped her own in the charts surely must’ve been a career highlight :D

  • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    92·
    11 hours ago

    ITT: people jerking off so hard about Taylor Swift being shit they miss the avatar reference with the covers probably being Water, Fire, Earth and Air. And she’s not even shit. Maybe the stuff that makes it to the radio idk i don’t listen to radio but tortured poets department is good for certain moods and so are probably her other albums. It’s no longer school (at least i hope so) and you don’t have to hate pop just out of principle. While not in the same playlist you can listen to Dream Theatre, Ayreon, Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo

  • casmael@mander.xyzEnglish
    38·
    18 hours ago

    The four genres I can see based on the pictures and nothing else:

    • radio pop
    • retrocore
    • second wave black metal
    • celine dion
  • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
    46·
    20 hours ago

    I’m a drums teacher and I’m this close to breaking my sticks with my bare teeth if any of my students request learning another shitty Swift song ever again. Or maybe I’ll smash the window in by throwing my kit at it. Or myself. Or my students…

    • vateso5074@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      19 hours ago

      I’ve definitely been there. I think it’s like what English teachers say when they see their students reading whatever latest YA drivel has been published (e.g. Twilight):

      At least they want to read something.

      Encourage their passions, even if you really hate what they’re currently doing with it, and trust that eventually they’ll get a better sense of taste when they learn more about what else is out there.

      Take the “lead a horse to water” idiom but add the corollary that the horse definitely will not drink if no one leads it to water in the first place.

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
        12·
        19 hours ago

        Oh, no worries. I teach them 50/50 what they want to learn and the other half is what I think it’s good for them to learn. That includes Blues, Jazz, Grunge, Funk, Soul, and so, so many more genres. I just hate dull pop music with a passion. :D

    • mormund@feddit.orgEnglish
      16·
      18 hours ago

      Not a musician, so honest question. Is her music actually bad from a theory perspective? I mean its unlikely to be ground breaking. But for pop, my assumption would be that it’s more towards the upper end.

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
        8·
        17 hours ago

        Imagine this being bored to your tits:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E

        Imagine being even more bored by pop music… ;-)

        It’s just always the same. Doesn’t matter if it’s Taylor or any other pop musician ever since the early 90s.

        Damn, now I feel old - and I’m only 38. ^^

        I just have fun on the drums playing and teaching when it comes up to speed and different tempos. I love playing challenging stuff - for example Sam & Dave. I do love playing kicks that are not going well initially with crashes. It’s just me, being jaded.

        But apparently all my students dig my classes, so I can’t really complain.

        • Caesium@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          16 hours ago

          I know next to nothing about what actually make good music but man the moment I had access to music outside of the local radio stations I was blown away by how good music could actually be.

          especially drums, idk if I could ever learn how to play them but it’s easily my favorite part to listen to when they’re done well

          • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
            2·
            10 hours ago

            May I introduce you to Drumeo? :D Rock on! I know some of the people from the channel on a personal level and some of the “listen to the first time” teachers actually taught me the ropes when I started out playing (I used to be coder / keyboarder before getting into playing drums).

      • agentshags@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        I found some of the synth stuff going on in the background was pretty cool when my ex was listening to it. And as much as people love to hate her, she does have some catchy shit.

    • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.comEnglish
      7·
      16 hours ago

      Even as a non-pop music hater I can’t imagine going to a drumming class and wanting to play that all the time, it’s just not a drum centric genre. Very few pop songs have prominent or interesting percussion.

      I would imagine a drum class would be full of metal, jazz, punk, funk, etc. fans.

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Most of my students are kids / teenagers and especially group classes can be somewhat annoying every now and then. But at the same time it’s very rewarding. Sure, sometimes I’m a bit underwhelmed by their taste in music, but hey, I’ve been a dumbass kid as well back in the day. I love the lessons when I’m not taking any requests, just giving a big lecture about different music genres and then getting into the drumming zone. I teach one advanced class every 2nd week (beginners class is every week) and I love seeing my students light up when it comes to proper challenging stuff. One is a fun nu metal fan who once asked me if I knew how to play “Word up”. You mean the Korn version or the actual original? Lol, his mind was blown away after hearing the original for the first time, and that was the original song plus me on the drums playing along to it. :D I might’ve had shitty parents, but oh dear, both of them had good taste in music and thus I know boatloads of cool stuff all the way down from the mid 50s up until the early 90s.

    • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Isn’t starting out with easy songs good? There’s a reason why every guitarist knows to play Wonderwall. I think it’s just a consequence of teaching that you don’t do complex stuff. The students that are able to do complex stuff probably teach themselves at that point.

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        It actually is just the way you described it. But one of my students is technically far beyond most others her age - and still demands playing shitty pop music. Sometimes I really want to make her angry (she’s heavy on the spectrum), just so she can unleash her full potential. Have fun with other genres. Like, idk, play a song of my late friend’s band Static-X. :D I know she could do it, but she prefers not to. I am not shoving or pushing her. She does what she feels fine with. So, I guess more Swift, more Lady Gaga, more Billie Eilish… ;D

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Lol, I had to look it up online. There’s some very nice Breakcore elements in that music. To quote a friend of mine (who is crazy enough to actually play that sort of stuff live on an oldschool kit every now and then): “Sure, I can play Breakcore live - for about 20 minutes and then I’ve got to stop because otherwise it would give me a major league heart attack!” :D

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      7 hours ago

      I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever heard a Taylor Swift song in my life. But, let me take a guess.

      1. Pop. I’m pretty sure she’s a pop singer. I get the impression her fans are mostly young girls, so that’s probably her core demographic.
      2. “Modern Country”, a.k.a. “country-pop”. She just seems like the type who would do a pop song but add a bit of twang, a bit of acoustic guitar, and voila, she’s mastered “country”.
      3. Hip-hop. I wouldn’t be surprised if she released some so-called “hip hop”. I really doubt she’s be the one rapping, but someone that famous can probably just do a collaboration with a rapper, and sing while they rap. Just adjust the beats a bit, throw in a turntable (or a turntable-type sample), and you’ve mastered hip-hop. Unless… hmm… maybe her fan base is so white that she’s afraid of offending them even with extremely mild hip-hop. In that case, category 3 could be “Rock”, i.e. pop but with a bit more of an edge.
      4. Hmm, this is a harder one. There are so many other genres of music, which one would be “the only other remaining genre” according to a fan? Probably not something too foreign, so not K-Pop or Latin. Probably nothing too old because her fans are so young, so no Jazz, Blues or Classical. It probably comes down to “Rock” or “Dance”. I’m gonna go with Dance. It’s pretty easy to take a female vocalist and emphasize the rhythm, focus on electronic instruments, etc.

      Far from actually mastering “all 4 genres of music”, my guess is that almost everything she plays is in 4/4, with maybe an occasional 3/4, and that it’s almost always in a major key. How did I do?

      • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I don’t know much about genres, but I do know she started as a country artist and pivoted to pop later.