with, like, edm elements, influenced by reggaeton and dancehall. and so tropical house became huge in the 2010s. couldn t find you anywhere when you broke down, i didn t leave ya [hanif] where are u now? was written as a traditional justin bieber ballad. and skrillex and diplo bring it into, you know, the kind of electronic music, um, era, just going in a totally different direction. i was like, diplo, skrillex? uh, i don t really know if that s, like, where i want to go. and they, they did it. i was like, oh my gosh, this is blowing my mind. i need you the most [finneas] skrillex added tropical house textures and energy to that record that it needed to really evolve. and that was so cool, to watch somebody take all these skills that they had honed and, like, translate them into this totally different, you know, genre. [music] all of a sudden, this tropical house paradigm starts to show up in other artists,
and so the signature songs of the modern era are just kind of a mélange of different influences and styles. shine a light through an open door [emily] we found love, rihanna and calvin harris, is such a good, euphoric track with an amazing, emotional focal hook on it. we found love in a hopeless place [emily] that combo really helped djs and that style of song take off. the sounds that have been climbing up the charts, the sounds of electronic dance music, came to popularity thanks to artists like david guetta, as well as diplo and skrillex. [music] [nate] and you had dubstep, which was a subgenre of edm, with this just annihilating bass texture. you can hear it in a song like scary monsters and nice sprites. [finneas] dubstep to me was like the most recent time
if you bought a mac, you had garageband. you could start making music that sounded good. and then you put the song on soundcloud or on youtube, and then it gets all this traction. i ve never seen a diamond in the flesh [puja] when lorde dropped royals on soundcloud, it felt like this subversive jab that paralleled the mission of the song, which is that not everything belongs in this glossy package. but every song is like gold teeth, grey goose trippin in the bathroom blood stains, ballgowns, trashin the hotel room we don t care we re driving cadillacs in our dreams [finneas] such a well-written song, really interesting vocal delivery, super minimalistic production. i don t know what the label thought the first time they heard that song, but if i d been the label, i would ve been like. [laughs] correct! and we ll never be royals royals [chris] by the middle of the 2010s, because of this wholesale shift in technology,
prince, the innovative one-of-a-kind artist who s given us so much great music over the decades, has been found dead. nothing has gone right in the world since prince died. that is my theory, and i m sticking to it. [van] people have talked about a miracle. i m hearing about a nightmare. [finneas] if there s any reason why it got dark, it was like, you know, turn on any screen. it was like the cultural awareness of everything s not going great. i only call you when it s half past five the only time that i ll be by your side [jayson] by 2016, with a song like the hills, the weeknd is a huge pop star, and he hasn t changed anything. we ve just caught up to his despairing vision of. i mean, essentially all of life. mask on, ye, [bleep] it mask off (mask) big foreigns [jayson] and then you got artists like future who embody the idea of anhedonic pleasure-seeking.
today, fans get so much more from an artist. you know, it s like they see their whole life. -look at my meal. -[man] what did you get? [laughs] vegan. [benny] with billie, she was showing everyone every part of her. she was the anti-pop star pop star. i m the bad guy duh with billie eilish, you feel as if she s whispering right in your ear, and that intimacy in the age when social media overtook everything, that tangibility of the voice is kind of part of the point. you really know how to make me cry when you give me those ocean eyes i m scared [finneas] billie s voice is my favorite voice. every time billie says anything in a song, i believe it. and that s, to me, the mark of, like, a really, like, genius vocalist. i could lie, say i like it like that like it like that