Dearly beloved: We are gathered here today to celebrate this thing called roséwave.
Since 2017, roséwave has been more than mere summer listening; it s been the catchall term for a way of living: the breezy sweatshirt-over-swimsuit days spent on the beach. The impromptu, late-night karaoke session with your ride-or-dies. The soundtrack to a generation-spanning family reunion featuring all your grandmother s classic recipes (and your cousins drinking games, too). As Lars Gotrich, its inventor, explained: Roséwave is a one-word joke I made on Twitter that was less about a genre (that does not exist) and more a lifestyle (that very much exists).
Fergal Kinney
, March 1st, 2021 09:31
On the 20th anniversary of their one and only studio album, Any Other City, Fergal Kinney speaks to Life Without Buildings about their short productive life and their incredibly long tail
In pop music, and the cottage industry set up to auto-mythologise it, there’s little premium higher than the small coterie of bands whose skimpy discographies are inverse to their XXL influence – Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Young Marble Giants, Slint, Television. You’ll notice that all of the above are indie or alternative acts. Unless from early death, you’ll find little of this mythologising in soul or in jazz. What can we learn from this? The early split being the logical end point of indie s cult of detachment?
What makes an old song go viral on TikTok?
From Kate Bush s Babooshka to Fleetwood Mac s Dreams , the app s gone nostalgia crazy. We asked TikTok stars, musicians and psychologists: why?
Kate Bush s 1980 weirdo-banger Babooshka has filled many a TikTokker with glee. Credit: Getty
You don’t need us to tell you that TikTok now has a huge effect on the music industry. With the power to launch careers with one viral clip, we’re seeing the birth of a new star every day. But how about the revival of an old one? Last year saw TikTok revive vintage hits, from ‘70s classics such as Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ to ‘00s deep cuts such as legendary Glasgow indie band Life Without Buildings’ ‘The Leanover’. Now ancient sea shanties are even going viral on the app, as is – perhaps more improbably still – The Wombat’s 2015 electro-pop tune ‘Greek Tragedy’.