a really, like, genius vocalist. i could lie, say i like it like that like it like that [finneas] to me, the magic of billie was her ability to communicate herself. there was just this pathway of communication that felt deservedly authentic. i don t wanna be in the pop world or the hip-hop world or the r&b world or whatever [bleep] think. you know, i want it to be like, what kind of music you listen to? billie eilish kind of music. like billie eilish, i think of lil nas x as somebody who reflects that kind of post-genre sensibility of the 2010s. yeah, i m gonna take my horse to the old town road i m gonna ride til i can t no more [jason] his debut hit, old town road, is at the nexus of country and hip-hop to the extent that you can t even tell which it is. i got the horses in the back horse tack is attached hat is matte black got the boots that s black to match
2016, for me, is one of the worst years ever. bowie s career spent decade of an american music i sh con. s. 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.
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. you try to have fun, but nothing feels good. that becomes a really default pose, um, in pop. who put this shit together? i m the glue (someone said) shorty facetimed me out the blue [jayson] and then there s travis scott with sicko mode.
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, like the chainsmokers in their song closer. we ain t ever getting older [nate] it s got this dembow rhythm, which shows up in a lot of these tracks. duh, duh, duh-duh, duh, duh-duh, duh, duh-duh, duh. i m in love with the shape of you [nate] it sends ed sheeran s shape of you to the top of the charts,
[shutters clicking] [reporters shouting lorde! ] [este] in the 2010s, 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,