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Lecture 11- Popular Music Since 2000 Flashcards

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What new technology and platforms emerged in the 2000s?

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digital singles and albums (2000s) have become the most common format for popular music

TV making popular music stars continues
- American Idol finalists (2002-2011) scored 351 number 1 singles and albums

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What is the best-selling physical format in music today?

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as of 2020, vinyl records started outselling CDs and took over as best-selling physical format in music

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Who are Radiohead (how many)?
Where are they from?
When did they form themselves?
Who did they sign with?

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  • British ALTERNATIVE rock quintet
  • OG from Oxford
  • formed in 1980s
  • signed with EMI
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What was Radiohead’s original name?

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On a Friday

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What genres and textures did Radiohead explore?

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-combination of hardcore punk rock
- grunge
-thick guitar-dominated textures of rock and heavy metal

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“Creep” by Radiohead:
What style?
What does it cycle through?

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-grunge styled
-cycles through the same 4 chords

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“Fitter Happier” by Radiohead:
A short piece of what did it include?
What kind of spoken text?

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  • short piece of musique concrete with sampled musical and background sounds
  • spoken text recited by Fred (a synthesized voice from Mac computers- sound like SIRI)
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What is musique concrète? How are the sounds modified?

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  • music that uses recorded sound as raw material
  • the sounds are often modified through the application of audio effects
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“Bodysnatchers” by Radiohead:
What does it begin with?
What do the lyrics describe?

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  • begins with distorted electric guitar riff (continues almost throughout the song)
  • lyrics describe alienation of a person incarcerated in their own body
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How do the lyrics of “Bodysnatchers” by Radiohead relate to musicians working the music business?

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  • we can think of the lyrics meaning being uncomfortable in terms of gender and that the trappings of the industry are the ones sucking the life out of the existence of musicians
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What predecessors does Radiohead fit in with in terms of genre?
What else does Radiohead relate to in terms of experimental developmental sections?

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Fits with predecessors like ‘Nirvana, Pink Floyd” , psychedelia
- grunge and psychedelic music
- could relate to beach boys and Beatles, like good vibrations, and day in the life in terms of experimental developmental sections

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What genre does Taylor Swift draw on?
What instrument does she use?
From where?
Where did she move to and release her debut album?
What kind of crossover is she?

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  • singer-songwriter
  • guitarist
  • from Pennsylvania
  • moved to Nashville and released her Nashville debut: a self-titled album in 2006 (PRODUCED 6 singles)
  • crossover artist from country to mainstream pop
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What has taylor swift become known for?

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-strong vocals and infectious melodic hooks

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“Love Story” by Taylor Swift:
What kind of song?
What form?
What genres does it bridge?

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  • Narrative song (ballad tradition)
  • follows compound AABA form
    –> with verses, pre-choruses and choruses A section follow verse-chorus form
  • bridges country and pop
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What instruments are used in “Love Story”

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-banjo
-fiddle
-acoustic guitar

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Texture of “Love Story” Taylor Swift

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changes in texture as song gradually builds to full texture
changes to the lyrics in choruses as story develops
modulation (3:18) upward modulation “Tricker’s key change”

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“Anti-Hero” Taylor Swift:
When was it released?
What charts did it reach and what rank?
How many seconds is the hook?
How is the melody in the pre-chorus?
What form?

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Released in 2022 Oct
Number 1 track on the Billboard Hot 100
simple 5 second hook (drum loop)
contrasting vocal melody in pre-chorus
simple Verse Chorus form with pre-chorus

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Who is Lady Gaga?
Where is she from?
What did she do to pursue music?

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Stefani Germanotta: Singer-songwriter, pianist and producer
from NYC
left university to pursue a performance career

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What was Lady Gaga’s debut Album?
What are the stats?

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The Fame: sold 12 million copies
4 chart topping singles
including “Poker Face” and “Paparazzi”

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Lady Gaga grew up listening to ..

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Divas like :
Madonna
Whitney Houston and Christina Aguilera

Pop rock and glam artists like:
Michael Jackson
David Bowie , freddy Mercury (Queen), the Beatles, Steview wonder and Elton John

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What is Lady GAGA known for?

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Danceable hits
memorable choruses
theatrics and spectacle
powerful and sometimes rough vocals
provocative music videos
disrupting mainstream conceptions of female beauty

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“Bad Romance” Lady Gaga
What is It and what does it look back to?
what does it Strat with?
What do the drums do?

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  • Club anthem looks back to 1980s and 90s pop , Madonna and electropop
    starts with chorus and transitions to the hook : “Rah rah-ahahah
  • strong drums encourages listeners to dance and move
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What does vocal versatility sound like in “Bad Romance”?
what does it alternate between?
What story does it tell?

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Low, powerful vocals
alternate between singing (choruses) and speech (verses)
Tell the story of infatuation and toxic relationships

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Who are BTS?
when did they form?
what genre did they start in?

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-South Korean all-male vocal septet
-formed in 2010
started in hip hop and branched out to pop and other genres
Often called “K-Pop”

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BTS lyrics are sung in ... and often address ...
Korean and English often address mental health, coming-of-age stories, loss, self acceptance
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BTS started with their debut album .. How successful was the album? What is the name of the fan base?
2 Cool 4 Skool -taken off and become a global phenomenon with record-setting sales and fame as legendary as the Beatles and Michael Jackson -Has HUGE fan base, called ARMY, reminiscent of legions of fans who made up Beatlemania
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what did "Butter" BTS win? What happened in that performance?
won Artist of the Year in 2021 as well as Favourite Pop Song at the American Music Awards - a lot happened in that performance created texture and opportunities for each member to participate in song very mainstream pop kind of song but segments of rap are included versatile group
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what is "Boy With Luv" by BTS? what is the message?
Bubblegum K-pop hit simple message about finding joy in little things as a way to achieve inner happiness and peace
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How did BTS extend style and practices from other artists and groups that we have studied ? What is their appearance and what does it bring to mind?
they are descendant of the boy band tradition - Mowtown groups like the Temptations, Coasters, and Boyz II Men, with their matching outfits and slick synchronized choreography Goes back to Mowtown and artists and the Beatles androgynous appearances bring to mind stars such as Little Richard and Prince
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What do Popular music and musicals include? what happened between 1949 and 1969 and who did they tally more than?
Broadway and Hollywood Between 1949 and 1969, fifteen different original Broadway cast albums hit number 1 on the popular music charts, ultimately tallying more weeks at number 1 than all of the albums by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles combined.” (Laurence Maslon) * West Side Story (“Maria,” “Tonight”) * South Pacific (“Some Enchanted Evening”)
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What are recent popular songs from Broadway and who are they by ?
"My shot" Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda "Waving Through a Window" Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul "We Don't Talk About Bruno" Encanto by Miranda
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What is Encanto? who are the composers? what is it about?
Musical released by Disney in 2021 composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda film follows Columbian teenager Mirabel Madrigal who struggles in her extraordinary family as the only member without a magical gift
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"We Don't Talk About Bruno" Miranda What does the ensemble mix together? How were the stats for this song? Why is the theme relatable?
-ensemble number that mixes Latin styles with hip hop in a "spooky ghost" - impressive stats" longest reigning chart-topper for Disney in history of US Billboard HOt 100 universal, multi-generational appeal: the song's theme is relatable, it pertains to family secrets and how years of gossip and repression can obscure truth
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Musical characteristics of "We Don't Talk about Bruno" What is the form? What musical style? How are verses delivered? What happens to the texture?
-verse-chorus form starts with a statement of the short chorus - Latin musical style, emphasized in the chorus (no, no, no) -some verses are delievered melodically and some are rapped showing Miranda's penchant for hip hop - gradual thickening of the texture in the verses at first verses are sung by only one or two singers, and later there are more
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Instrumentation of "We Don't Talk about Bruno" When does a bridge build? What is the song called and what is it a feature of?
all the instrumental accompaniment drops out at the begining of verse 4 a bridge builds to the last section when Miranda weaves a web of vocal lines singing fragments of melodies earlier in the song and now are sung simultaneously CALLED a counterpoint song, a common features of musicals and operas
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What are Jukebox musicals? what do they consist of? What do they owe their success to?
- uses previously released popular songs as its musical score -songs have a popular musician or group in common "Jukebox musical film" first coined in the 1940s in reference to motion pictures consisting largely of hit recordings - jukebox musicals owe their success in part to their ability to trigger nostalgia
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What are jukebox scores? What is the timespan? What musical tastes do songs reflect?
- cross-section of hit tunes - selected from significantly limited timespan (late 1950s-1980s) songs reflect the musical tastes of Broadway's market: mainly white, middle-class and aging baby-boom generation
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What range of styles are seen in Jukebox scores? What can pop music help do?
rock n roll (All shook up) country (Ring of Fire) mainstream pop (Mamma Mia) popular music styles can help lure new younger audiences to Broadway too (Once Upon a One More Time)
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What are Bio-Musicals? What are examples? What outline doe they follow?
-subgenre of the jukebox musical -uses singers' chart toppers to trace the arcs of their careers EX: bob dylan, tina turner, carole king, britney spears follow outlines of cliches: adversity, sucess, more adversity, triumph (or collapse) before the final curtain
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To some, what are Bio-Musicals?
"the biographical jukebox musical is the cockroach of Broadway. It has a small head, a primitive nervous system and will probably outlast the apocalypse" - Jesse Green, 2018
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What are Examples of Jukebox Musicals and biomusicals? What was it used for?
Ain't Misbehavin' (1978)- jukebox musical prototype used a catalogue of period songs associated with "Fats" Waller to recreate the performance styles of black artists of Harlem Renaissance
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Pre-2000s EX of Jukebox Musicals and Bio-Musicals (NOT TESTED)
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (1990)—Buddy Holly * Smokey Joe’s Café (1995)—Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller * Saturday Night Fever (1999)—Bee Gees
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2000s EX of Jukebox Musicals and Bio-Musicals (ONLY ONE IS TESTED)
Mamma Mia! (1999/2001)—ABBA (MEMORIZE FOR EXAM) * Movin’ Out (2002)—Billy Joel * We Will Rock You (London, 2002)—Queen * Lennon (2005)—John Lennon * Good Vibrations (2005)—The Beach Boys * All Shook Up (2005)—Elvis Presley * Jersey Boys (2005)—Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons * Ring of Fire (2006)—Johnny Cash * The Times They Are A-Changin’ (2006)—Bob Dylan * Rock of Ages (2009)—Glam metal of the 1980s
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2010s EX of Jukebox Musicals and Bio-Musicals (NOT TESTED)
Come Fly Away (2010)—Frank Sinatra * American Idiot (2010)—Green Day * Viva Forever! (2012, West End only)—Spice Girls * After Midnight (2013)—Duke Ellington * Motown: the Musical (2013) * Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (2014) * Lazarus (2016)—David Bowie * Girl from the North Country (2017)—Bob Dylan * Jagged Little Pill (2018)—Alanis Morissette * The Cher Show (2018)—Cher * Clueless, The Music (2018)—songs from the 1990s, based on the movie Clueless * Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (2018)—The Temptations * Once Upon a One More Time (2019)—Britney Spears
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What are Critical receptions of Jukebox Musicals?
"Put the Blame on ABBA ... "- Ben Brantley - a quote fromthe New York Times talking about Mamma Mia - context is important time is important - 9/11 had a huge impact on broadway and it went dark for a short while
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Who are ABBA? When did they form What did they win?
-swedish pop quartet two guys, two girls formed in 1974 wining the Eurovision song contest that propelled them to stardom
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What Musical characteristics are present in ABBAs Music? What did they carefully design? What did Michael B. Tretow create and what did he set?
-features simple, repetitive melodies, rhythms, harmonies and song forms carefully designed, electic syntheses of 1970s pop and dance music with European and Latin American popular styles the engineer Michael B. Tretow created dense but transparent combinations of multi-tracked vocals with skillfully balanced backings setting new production standards for mainstream pop
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What happened to ABBA in 1982? What did Benny and Bjorn do and what were 3 of those?
they disbanded members persued separate careers varying degress of success Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus moved on to writing musicals: Chess (with lyricist Tim Rice, 1984) Kristina från Duvemåla (1995) Mamma Mia! (2000) with “The Winner Takes It All”
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Mamma Mia! Fun Facts When were film versions made? how many people have seen the musical and in how many countries? what has it brought renaissance to? what does it follow? Where did it top charts?
Film versions have been made 2008 and 2018 54 million people have seen the musical in 40 diff countries Mamma Mia! has brought a renaissance to ABBA's music. Following the London premiere in 1999, the album, ABBA Gold, topped charts in the United Kingdom for the second time in fifteen years
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Why is Mamma Mia! a hit?
wide popularity of ABBA songs are accessible and appeal to multiple generations of audiences around the world
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what is school of rock? What was the museum of pop and culture formerly known as?
academia: undergrad courses and grad degrees museums: rock and roll hall of fame in Cleaveland OH Museam of pop culture (MoPOP and formerly the Experience Music Project in Seattle WA

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