Popdust: Gaga #1 Reason Why Pop Music Changed in 2009

[Magdalena 3]

I got that point in 2010. I compared other singers to Gaga and they all seemed like shi* compared to her. She changed everything. And you can see that in 2012 there weren't many exciting things like when Gaga was on the scene.

[Introvert 0]

Only downside to this is that it's 2013 now, not 2009, and things have certainly changed since then.

 

not really. dance-pop is the dominate form of popular music still. has it evolved some? of course.

In America, yes. The idea of a "pop revolution" in 2009 is far less relevant in Europe. From about 1993-2008, the US was kind of living behind a musical iron curtain, which European pop could barely penetrate. It was all hip-hop and R&B (if not country or rock) on US radio.

 

It went almost a decade with nobody from the UK getting a US #1. Hell, Kylie was kind of underground in the US, and acts like Girls Aloud and Sophie-Bextor didn't get mainstream release. Now American and European pop are much closer.

 

this is very true. throughout the 90s to the end of the 2000's american radio was completely dominated by variations on hip-hop and rnb. whereas everywhere else was more musically varied.

well from 1998-2002 bubblegum teen pop had a dominate run alongside hip hop. but from 2001-2002 it sort of morphed into an urban pop sort of thing. i feel like i can't articulate this intelligently but i imagine you guys get what im saying haha

[Chucky 39]

The new queen of pop tbh :legend:

[Emvee 8,307]

:ARTPOP:

[SEANGT 5,225]

Wasn't paparazzi the fourth single?

flop article tbh hahaha

[Economy 49,393]

she was a huge influence...

 

But she wasnt the only influence... there was electronic music starting to show up on radio a while before Gaga became big

 

Madonna had her hit 4 minutes, there were Britney songs from Circus, and Cascada (ok euro-vision but has many similarities to current pop)

[Runway 27,876]

Tried to spot a lie but failed :ARTPOP:

[Introvert 0]

she was a huge influence...

 

But she wasnt the only influence... there was electronic music starting to show up on radio a while before Gaga became big

 

Madonna had her hit 4 minutes, there were Britney songs from Circus, and Cascada (ok euro-vision but has many similarities to current pop)

 

4 minutes was urban. completely. timbaland was the producer. hard candy was madonna conforming to the urban market that dominated that time period. circus wasn't very electro either. it was straight up traditional britney-pop back to form. even though blackout obviously had electronic influence (heaven on earth, outta this world, etc.) it was also still predominantly urban. cascada is obviously euro-dance/pop but i mean no ones discrediting cascada. all they're saying is gagas phenomenon was so huge she helped bring dance/pop back in fashion when urban/hip-hop dominated a decade and a half before here.

[AgusPop 4,141]

Gaga was like an Hurricane

 

[Pure Adrenaline 1,518]

Amazing.

And we all knew that before. GaGa became a trend with her Bowie lighting, hairbows, make-up, s-xuality, EDM, lead generation etc.

All eyes were on her and lots of artists faded away.

[Lady Palutena 3,147]

GaGa brought Pop Music back to life

Gaga was like an Hurricane

 

Except that's a tornado

[StrawberryBlond 14,777]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks this. I've been wondering for a while if I was just deluding myself when I said that Gaga brought about the whole electro/dance revolution. The US never understood dance music pre-Gaga apart from Cascada's Everytime We Touch, which surprisingly went to #10 and sold 1.9 million copies in the US in 2006. But it was a once off and Cascada couldn't replicate that success again and no other electro act could break through. Madonna really brough dance music to the front with Confessions On A Dancefloor, but the US simply did not get into it. Despite the fact that the rest of the world was dancing away to the likes of Hung Up and Sorry, the US was clearly outwith the cool crowd at that party. Kylie had tried for years to make electro music global with no success. But Gaga came along and suddenly, things started to make sense, probably because Gaga's singles were still noticeably pop and the electro part was just an extra thrown in. While pop had kinda died for a while, the US still remembered its love for it once and the next thing we know, pop had made a definite comeback and dance music was everywhere. It can't have been a coincidence that it happened just after Gaga debuted, surely?

 

It's weird to remember that urban music was the most popular music, that it was pop music. From 2001-2008, the safest way to ensure success was to go urban and there was a year where literally every #1 song in the US was an urban song. Pop was only something by teen pop artists and teen pop only existed in its own little universe and Britney and Justin were the only adult exceptions making successful pop music (and Justin was very urban in his early years). Now urban albums are at the bottom of the charts and selling peanuts, if an urban single goes top 10, it's a miracle, it seems like every artist is doing pop music, older artists like Katy Perry and Carly Rae Jepsen are having massive hits with juvenile songs that are too young for them, we're subjected to teen pop at every twist and turn. 2009 really was a very transitional year. What's unfortunate is that the older generation doesn't realise this and looks at them like you've spoken to them in tongues when you explain how music has changed in the last few years.

[Robinladen 1,527]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks this. I've been wondering for a while if I was just deluding myself when I said that Gaga brought about the whole electro/dance revolution. The US never understood dance music pre-Gaga apart from Cascada's Everytime We Touch, which surprisingly went to #10 and sold 1.9 million copies in the US in 2006. But it was a once off and Cascada couldn't replicate that success again and no other electro act could break through. Madonna really brough dance music to the front with Confessions On A Dancefloor, but the US simply did not get into it. Despite the fact that the rest of the world was dancing away to the likes of Hung Up and Sorry, the US was clearly outwith the cool crowd at that party. Kylie had tried for years to make electro music global with no success. But Gaga came along and suddenly, things started to make sense, probably because Gaga's singles were still noticeably pop and the electro part was just an extra thrown in. While pop had kinda died for a while, the US still remembered its love for it once and the next thing we know, pop had made a definite comeback and dance music was everywhere. It can't have been a coincidence that it happened just after Gaga debuted, surely?

 

It's weird to remember that urban music was the most popular music, that it was pop music. From 2001-2008, the safest way to ensure success was to go urban and there was a year where literally every #1 song in the US was an urban song. Pop was only something by teen pop artists and teen pop only existed in its own little universe and Britney and Justin were the only adult exceptions making successful pop music (and Justin was very urban in his early years). Now urban albums are at the bottom of the charts and selling peanuts, if an urban single goes top 10, it's a miracle, it seems like every artist is doing pop music, older artists like Katy Perry and Carly Rae Jepsen are having massive hits with juvenile songs that are too young for them, we're subjected to teen pop at every twist and turn. 2009 really was a very transitional year. What's unfortunate is that the older generation doesn't realise this and looks at them like you've spoken to them in tongues when you explain how music has changed in the last few years.

 

 

I was so sick of that urban hype. Even the supposed queen of pop Madonna was trying to go for a more urban sound with Timbaland.

 

[marcwaffles 20]

I've always thought of Gaga as the reason why EDM is so popular today, so I wholeheartedly agree with this article

[gagalovesme 2]

imagine how different the music industry would be right now if gaga never emerged from it, nicki minaj probably wouldn't even exist!