So far I think “Uptown Funk”, “Blinding Lights”, and “Old Town Road”. That doesn’t mean I love those songs. It means I think they answer the question. I know you may love “Irony x3” by Zigbones. But they ain’t it.
Edit: I’m sorry for the poorly worded question. I think it’s autism related, but I don’t see possibilities or alternative understandings easily, and when I wrote “decade” I thought 10 years and that was it.
Of course anyone answering from the perspective of 2010-2020 was making a perfectly reasonable and rational answer and I was very dismissive. I’m really sorry for that.
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I thought “Shape of You” might be there.
Skrillex was super iconic for his time but do his songs still get played?
Jesus I hope uptown funk wouldn’t be considered a classic of the era.
Radiohead, Fiona apple, lcd soundsystem, the roots…there are a lot of great jams from truly timeless bands and artists that I think will ultimately hold up better than the pop megahits.
None. There’s no place for classics anymore going forward, only new more of the same constantly thrown on us, again and again.
I remember an article that used (Spotify?) play trends to project this, and at the time they thought Pompeii by Bastille would be the one with longevity, while a few other hit songs by big names would be forgotten. I can’t find it now.
Look at what Weird Al has parodied. Because it’s gonna be disproportionately that.
I think the last decade has about 10-15 classic songs (e.g. rolling in the deep, get lucky etc), but that’s nothing compared to the '80s, where the classic songs measure upwards to 700. There is cultural stagnation in the last 10 years, particularly after the death of the indie music as a vehicle for innovation (i.e. the Pitchfork golden era of 2008 to 2012 where indies became the next hot thing). I could say the same for movies. For me, the highest point of cultural significance, was 1984 (more precisely, the last 3 months of 1983, the whole of 1984, and the first 6 months of 1985, ending with the Live Aid). That’s the most classic, highest point IMHO for both music and movies, where pretty much what was getting released, was becoming an instant classic. Basically, most of it was good, rather than bad with exceptions.
Only 1 song is worthy:
WAP
Certified freak!
WAP really is fucking incredible, even for people with no contemporary exposure to the genre. You can come to it fresh as a newborn child and the punchlines still land.
Lux Æterna by Metallica
No I love Metallica and that album is lazy af
I’m not really in tune with nowadays music, but I think Rag’n’Bone Man’s Human goes in there automatically, it’s in every playlist.
I guess we’ll have to put Imagine Dragons in there somehow, I think both Believer and Bones are a good fit.Imagine Dragons FTW
Any music of any genre other than reggaeton and trap. Their “hit songs” rarely manage to survive more than 5 years in the collective thought of the masses, then they become “background noise” in nightclubs, supermarkets, squares and other meeting places, overshadowed by the disposable “hit of the moment”.
You must not be outside then
In the communities where this music is popular, there are definitely a lot of classic songs coming out that aren’t just background noise, and they actually turn up the clubs.
To people outside of these communities it might seem like they only survive 5 years, but if you’re inside you’ll recognize patterns in songs that keep coming up and that people listen to the most. That’s what really makes them classics, not just random people on Lemmy deeming them as such.
Bad bunny, El Alfa, Tokischa, Chucky73, RaiwAlejandro, and Daddy Yankee have all been relasing songs that the community will remember for a long time and deem classics. Reggaeton is going through a second, smaller, golden age and it will be remembered.
Your comment sounds a bit racist ngl
I’m Latin American, I grew up in this, it’s part of my culture, that’s why I know where all this is going (about musical genres). I’m not an “outsider”.
Your comment sounds a bit racist ngl
You have no idea what you’re talking about, right?
I could see The Less I Know the Better having some staying power.
I think I’ll die if I hear a weird music kid from my child’s generation talking about Death Grips in 10 years or so.
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Yeah theres a few tane impala songs that could last a while.
Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo
Bad Guy by Billie Eilish
WAP.
As it was by Harry Styles.
Also watermelon sugar.
Havana Camila Cabello Ed sheeran Shape Of You Olivio Rodrigo Brutal
My first thought was indeed Blinding Lights.
Anyone over 35 should just not answer this question, very little chance we’ll be right
The chart being from 2011 made me feel old
Also, for anyone over 35, our ability to understand “last decade” means the last 10 years, decreases over time. I read this question and still thought about songs that came out 2009.
I think that is up for interpretation a little bit. “The last decade” I think grammatically it means the last 10 years. In this case 2014-2024. But I am so used to it referring to the years ending in zero that my head immediately goes to 2010-2020 not 2014-2024. Especially in the context of music. Music is historically is reference as the years ending in zero 60s, the 70s the 2000s 2010s etc…
It depends. It can mean either. Technically though, I believe each decade is 1-10, not 0-9, although this mistake is so common I don’t think it matters and can mean either.
Woah, slow down there professor calculus, not all of us have 10 fingers to count on
Well take off your shoes and socks.
I think I disagree. Only a very small subset of music from the decade permeated my oblivion of modern music. I expect the songs that managed to do that are the ones that will be remembered. I agree with OP’s list, I know those songs.
Add to that:
- Born this Way
- Wake me up
- Shake it off
- Someone that I used to know
Taylor Swift probably has at least 5 that will be considered classics.
Just go to her top played songs and you could put any of them on that list. Which is wild
