This sound in 2018: can it still sound fresh?

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

Pop was huge in late 00s (tnx Gaga ) and early 2010s, but once the 2010s started, the pop songs became more energetic, with harder beats, there were strong EDM influences (however it still wasn't as the EDM that started becoming popular after 2013/14), it was more club-ish, the choruses had quite explosive instrumentals...

I hope you understand what I'm trying to say and what music I'm alluding to (if not check these 3 bops, they are awesome examples) 

And lbr, these songs are everything we want from out pop girls now... No need to be pretentious  We all want Nicki to make another "Roman Reloaded', Rihanna to make another 'Loud', Kesha to make another 'Warrior'...

So, I'm wondering, would this still sound fresh in 2018? 

I'm not biased, but I think it would still sound fresh. I don't know... it just hasn't aged like 2000s pop (The Fame, Animal, Rated R...).

Thots?

[Smother Em Eh 6,906]

Agreed and we all want Gaga to make another TFM

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

1 minute ago, Smother Em Eh said:

Agreed and we all want Gaga to make another TFM

We do, but TFM doesn't really sound like this 

[Widows Kiss 7,818]

Turn Me On is such a BOP 

[Smother Em Eh 6,906]

Just now, MaryJaneHolland said:

We do, but TFM doesn't really sound like this 

True but it’s a cohesive and consistent Pop Masterpiece. 

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

Just now, Smother Em Eh said:

True but it’s a cohesive and consistent Pop Masterpiece. 

It indeed is, but I put it in the '2000s pop' group 

[Smother Em Eh 6,906]

Just now, MaryJaneHolland said:

It indeed is, but I put it in the '2000s pop' group 

True oh and it’s timeless! Who else since then has released a risky and boundary pushing sound like Bad Romance lyrically? 

[IAmNotHere1997 25,824]

Is DNA produced my RedOne?

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

Just now, gabrielflorin01 said:

Is Rye Rye produced my RedOne?

Yes  It's called 'DNA', Rye Rye is the girl 

[IAmNotHere1997 25,824]

2 minutes ago, MaryJaneHolland said:

Yes  It's called 'DNA', Rye Rye is the girl 

OMG 

[Luxe Ford 3,481]

The one that remotely does it for me here is Turn Me On.

And even that needs a big dose of Gagaism to really work.

So much EDM seems so lazy and formularised. I live for electronic music but producers need to work harder. And the songs should be able to work without all the bells and whistles.

I love this one because it's a proper song, but still EDM:

 

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

Screaming at the title, I mean "in 2018", not "is" 

[Supersonic 49,376]

This didn't even sound "fresh" back then.

[ryanripley 86,575]

this is just fast food pop, it's never meant to last and it didn't

[Contrapoints 6,146]

The thing is around 2015 this type of production became highly oversaturated and kind of hit a peak as to where it could go. I call it the loud pop era.

The drums and bass in every song got as loud as they possibly could, and at some point it was just became generic white noise and no original melody.

Since then its almost completely faded to be replaced by a more standard softer beat sound focused mostly on melody that we have today, which I welcome, but I kind of miss the creativity that the loud pop era had tbh. Now its mostly just a bunch of guys whispering softly into the microphone.