Justin Bieber Breaks Record Fastest Single To Re

[Thomas P 18,479]

its one of my favs Justin songs.

I like it a lot!!!

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

Its a good bop. Following trends. Its nothing really exciting or new but still good.

[Haroon 49,685]

Listening to it for the first time as we speak and wow I'm loving this  Reminds me a bit of the RnBish songs between 2000 and 2005 but with a futuristic twist that I really enjoy  

[Gaga Monster 13,001]

Slay 

[LoveandMagic 1,731]

Good job! Well Justin, things are looking up. Just stay out of trouble so people will respect you more for your work. 

Not sure why this article feels it needs to compare JB to One Direction. I guess to get the fan girls all bothered. It has to suck to be an artist and constantly be lumped with (often in a negative way) to someone that's in a similar field. Why can't we just congratulate someone on a difficult accomplishment without turning it into a pissing contest? Someone sales 1,000,000 albums. That's great! But instead of focusing on how difficult of a task that is in today's music climate, articles like these have to point out how "so and so" sold 2 million, or how this "singer A" beat the previous record of "singer B". It's so petty and sours the industry when musicians and singers (the artists and creative minds) should want to work together to create something great and/or really fun for the masses. But I get it (I guess): competition for the clicks.

[PlasticHo 706]

Not a fan of this song really. Good for him though on coming back with a #1!

[XoXoJoanneGaga 629]

 

Honestly, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry.

 

What is going wrong with my generation? 

What??? *major meltdown*

spoken like a true 15-year-old Youtube commenter

but I see Foiled already laid you out

[Teal Ambition 47,805]

Not really surprised. The song isn't that great imo. Where Are U Now is much better, and I think he tried to hard to make it similar.

I also prefer Drag Me Down.

[Harry 26,836]

I take issue with your comment that "rock was the pop of its day." Rock was popular, not pop. That's an important distinction to make. There were people who listened to popular music but not rock. You can only compare rock music to other rock music. If you want to compare Pink Floyd to Imagine Dragons or the Black Keys (idk what rock bands are popular nowadays, I actually dislike most rock past the 80s lol), that makes sense. But comparing Pink Floyd to Miley Cyrus when they never had the same musical goals is just silly. Pink Floyd didn't play on the radio, unless you listened to college radio, so by your own standard of the most accessible music, they should be excluded.

And you've still failed to say precisely what makes a song a quality song. You've listed a lot of vague qualities, but no hard standards I can use to determine if a song is good or not. There are people who love the music of the 60s who think the Beatles are just popularized and whitewashed versions of the more subversive music that they listen to. So who is correct? What is real quality music? Where is the rubric I can use to say "Led Zep is good, but Katy Perry isn't?" There is no such rubric. If I want cute, fun music to jump around to in my pajamas, I'm not gonna play Led Zep because they're not cute. They don't meet that standard of quality. But I would never say they're not a quality band. I won't spit at a hammer because it doesn't connect to the internet.

Let me tell you this: I looked at the #1 hits of the Billboard chart from its inception to the modern day for a project. That's right, all of them. Do you know what I found? A lot of artists I had never heard of. The bands I expected to dominate, which would be the same bands you mention, were not as prevalent as I thought. There were a lot of bubblegum pop acts, lots of ballads. And I had to listen to this stuff, too, because I had to musically a--lyze it. It was all very normal, average music. I can't say, in good conscious, that the pop acts of the 70s were better than today. The majority of the stuff on the Top 40, was okay music. Just like today. It was not filled with the Beatles and Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan. It was filled with Debby Boone and the Archies and awful ballads and more irrelevant, forgotten acts than I care to list. The majority of Top 40 stuff from that era was bad. In some ways, I'd say it was worse than today. Truly formulaic.

The truth is that pop music, the genre pop, hasn't changed. From 1899 to 2015, it's been doing the same thing for more than a century. It absorbs the influences of other genres. Pop took on some jazz and blues influences in the first half of the century. It borrowed from rock starting in the 60s and 70s. It borrowed from electronic music in the 80s. But the core was always the same - make catchy melodies with relatable lyrics. That's what pop music has always been about and will always be about. You can't expect pop music to be rock or jazz or classical or electronica or anything else but what it is. If you don't like today's pop music, check out today's rock music, since other than Michael Jackson and potentially Bruce Springsteen, it doesn't seem like you actually like the pop (not popular) acts of that era.

Absolutely fabulous post

Goes to show that sometimes if you throw a massive amount of promo at something with a big enough fanbase, anything will do well

Well duh. Music is a business like any other. Whether it lasts or not will show if the song transcends past his fan base. It has been received quite well so far, so who knows.

[DeleteMyAccount 11,881]

inb4 he announces tour in Germany 

What's Germany?

[SlayedForTheGod 665]

im glad hes acting sensible now. hes worked hard so im happy for his success. im sure the song will grow on me.

[Kabexuela 1,184]

I don't know. Maybe our generation found music taste

 

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[Kabexuela 1,184]

Honestly, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry.

 

What is going wrong with my generation? 

What??? *major meltdown*

One of the very few who have class for good music.  Music evolves with new generations so whatever is popular is going to resonate with the general public most of the time.  I'll be expecting a few butthurt gals to reply so go ahead.  I'll be back in a few days to respond to all you one-dimensional music lovers.  Going to watch Pink Floyd: The Wall and jam to some originality.  Bye fishnets..

[VforVendetta 2,024]

Classical music once was popular as well. The what about Klezmer music? It is music to dance on and is even happy music. It's folk music and don't have a deep meaning mostly   So it doesn't have quality then?

Yes it has, And classical music ws never popular in the usual sense, it ha slaways been classical.

[VforVendetta 2,024]

spoken like a true 15-year-old Youtube commenter

but I see Foiled already laid you out

I am not on Youtube though, am I?