Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s—hip ...
Hits such as Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile,” Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a ...
Eilish’s vocals are syncopated in a pulse-like rhythm with the sub bass. Bad Guy has been variously defined as trap-pop, nu-goth pop, dance pop and electropop. But Eilish and O’Connell blur genres to ...