Hey friends, there's a follow-up podcast to this video here on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/podcast-3-new-of-102945329 Also, you can check out a playlist of these songs (in order) here: open.spotify.com/playlist/6y792siRSJpSRMfz0o01F6

Lil B being one of the first to sample a city pop song is more proof he's the most influential artist of the 2010s.

I'm nearly 60 and I'm relieved to find that I wasn't completely lost by this iceberg. I've heard of Drill, Chillwave and Vaporwave, so I guess all is not lost. :P

Just found out that cloud rap and soundcloud rap are different things

Brazil and Post Soviet countries have a lot more in common than you think. As a Ukrainian, our humor matches almost perfectly.

As someone that worked to shift the music selection played at an indie hipster bar I bartended at in the 2010s from the mandated late 90s - early 00s - owner burned CD only rule - to current music (at the time), this video was such a validation of all the time I spent digging for music instead of hanging out with real life people. The 2010s was such a rad time for music.

Only huge omission I can think of is bedroom pop, which I feel maintains the nostalgia present in a lot of these genres but also looks to take the mass corporatization of music through streaming services and put it back in the hands of DIY artists (though there were/are many artists who only became big due to industry connections) I think Bedroom pop draws from Mac Demarco in a big way as well, artists like Clairo, Billie Eilish, Gus Dapperton etc all stem from his seemingly DIY internet aesthetic imo. Great video though as always, one of your best!

As much bad rap 4chan gets, /mu/ essentially established most of the genres on this iceberg. When I was browsing back in the early 10s, you would be bombarded with artists you would normally never consider or hear about.

I feel like a big genre that was missed was corridos tumbados. While originating in large part in Mexico, it also developed a lot within the Southwest near the US-Mexican border. It is pretty big within the charts and if you were to go down to the Southwest you would hear it all over the place, especially with in places with a lot of Mexican communities and influence

I love Boards of Canada, Washed Out, Toro y Moi, and Neon Indian!!!!

Does anyone else think that Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's PonPonPon was the first hyperpop hit? Both in terms of the sound and the aesthetic. That still puts it in the 2010s but I've always been surprised that she doesn't get mentioned as one of the founding artists of the genre.

Holy smokes... Was not prepared for the mini vaporwave documentary, but I loved it!

I feel so fortunate to have come of age when vaporwave was on the come up! I'll always appreciate the unique way it resonated with my teenage experience and reflected the world around me.

One scene or genre that I felt u missed is the whole Atlanta rap. Artists like young thug, future, travis scott, lil baby, all had this weird autotune-y sound that sort of blended together with trap/edm/pop sounds, interestingly. Also often trying really weird quirky flows, and making it work somehow hahahah (a la young thug - lifestyle). I liked your take on how a lot of 2010s genres sort of melt into the nostalgia bucket, but I’d argue that genre/scene tried to create something new. Thanks for the video, it was a great watch. 😮

One genre that's been around since the 90s but really blew up in the 2010s was dungeon synth. Lofi fantasy beats to play dnd to.

I don't know why I was so shocked to see "hexD" mentioned, it was just so surprising.

Your essays are my music magazines now (I'm old! A mid-80s YA in my late 50s....). Thank you for what you do!!!

wake up babe, new bandsplaining!

I honestly adore this Chanel so much. I’ve recently gone down the hypnogogic pop/James Ferraro rabbit hole my self, so it’s nice to see it being talked about here. Honestly James Ferraro is just incredible with how much he’s influenced😮 underground music. He was friends with Yves Tumor, he’s been involved with Dean Blunt/Hype Williams. He’s in the centre of a who’s who for underground music imo. Could make for an interesting video.

If any of you guys were interested in Egg punk, definitely check out Prison Affair. You can go through their entire discography in about 20 minutes and its so fun. Def recomend.

Excellent video! Not bogged down with irrelevant details, but not just scratching the surface either.

one huge thing that I missed being mentioned is how much the medium is influential. Like just as much 00s megasellers like Usher, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga were making music to dance at clubs, and it dominated the mainstream landscape and blasting off the speakers, there were a huge generational gap at the early 10's when spotify outbreaks, probably the first and most representative hit of its era was Royals by Lorde, a silent calm almost anti-pop at it's backbone to what pop meant at the time, music made to be listened at the earphones, alone at the bedroom, and if you look closer you can notice just how much pop got...quieter? so it's not so much surprising how easily the indie pop / bedroom / lo-fi style of music was adopted by the top charts. Using Taylor Swift as example, probably the biggest star at the moment, her 2012 Red album hits were just so loud and edm fueled, but then years later she released 1989 wich is pop touchstone for an era of pop music, and Black Space, as big as a pop hit can be, have the same feeling of Lorde's Pure Heroine, and then she released Midnights two years ago, wich won the album of the year at the gramys and it's so heavily inspired by indie pop and bedroom music, and lo-fi, even though morally you should never call it that. And this perception it striked me as I saw many Taylor fans online complaining about other artists saying they were "too loud" and give them "headaches", and even in the taylor's version of her old albuns everything is just lower and don't hit the same, and many could argue how the loud and distorted sounds became popular, specially in rap music, but I think it's honestly driven from the same concept, how immersive it can be at headphones, and giving one a disoriented feeling yet so intense, about medium, it's noteworthy how the funk mandelao it's made to be played at parties and most often at cars, and it's such an incredible experience. Sorry for the long text I've spent a lot of my life listening to pop music and overthinking it hahahaha

I wouldn't say that any of this is "bad" or "worse than prior decades" but goddamn if there wasn't another decade that can trigger a feeling of amusia or whatever, where you aren't able to really perceive the music in the same way as music of prior decades. 2010s had a feeling of hazed-out drifting in many of these genres, but the more dance-oriented ones are actually quite futuristic, and can go into some high bpms, at least higher than prior decades in conventional music. But yeah.

I think that although chillwave originated in the late 00s, it could be considered a "cusp" genre with its heyday being in the late 00s/early 10s

Man, this is so good. It totally tickles my genre obsession with music. THANK YOU!!

The sound of my synapses connecting ty this connects a lot of things together for me

Absolutely love your presenting style. Comes across great when filmed instead of just voiceover.

There's a ton of genre missing from the 2010's like future bass, future house, future bounce ("future" is to the 10s what the word "wave" was in the 80s), brazilian bass, g-house, bass house, midtempo, moobahcore, moombahton, hitek, complextro, all the subgenre of dubstep like tearout, riddim, brostep, hybrid trap... And it's just in the electronic scene (which I'm more familiar with) but there's probably a ton of other that deserve a mention

this video is top content men, great work, greetings from Mexico

Every time I watch a video from this channel I need to have Spotify open to save the songs in my playlists. 😆

Ive never known how to feel about the collective nostalgia movement. It's more a misremembering than an homage, and though its subtly self-aware in that regard, it doesnt make the lie any less so. I'm not saying I dont enjoy the music, but there's always a hmm feeling when it tries to square with my experiences of those decades.

Really good and insightful video! Now I’m reminiscing on banger songs to give a re-listen to.

Sweet! This channel is gold for music nerds. Really glad I found your channel :) Keep up the good work!

"I'm a piano" - Bandsplaning, 2024 Really though great video as always, thanks!

great video! so rare for me to find a music nerd on yt that i actually agree with, other genres that could go on this list: chicago footwork (technically been around since way earlier but exploded in the 2010s) qgom (massive in south africa) hard drum (i dont like the name but its pretty solidified as a genre now, origins from like 2015)

I don't wanna be THAT guy but to describe Funk Mandelão you used: A tiktok ass brazilian funk song in *spanish* > Actual mandelão > Funk carioca 150 bpm. Also, it really comes from São Paulo.

rip SOPHIE man

Seriously under rated content man, love it. Been a subscriber from the beginning

Great work Man! Loved the diverse mix of music and deep dive ✨

i'm so happy to see that neoperreo gets the shout out it deserves, great research btw, as a latino i have to say thank you for making this video btw "perreo" is not necessarily "twerk" is more or less mimicking s**ual actions with someone while dancing to the beat, idk if there's a name for a dance like that in english lol

Vaporwave and Lo-Fi House were my most listened to new genres... Easily. Both had so much going for them, but for the most part, it was the whole ''home-made'' thing about them both that made them great. It brought back the ''anyone can have a go and maybe get time to be listened to'' thing. In a world where pop stars egos had gone stratospheric, faceless music was much more appealing. Plus, of course, the nostalgia factor.

Out of all the music in your video, yours is my favorite. It's really good!

Amazing video, thank you for your work !

Yep..... those genre labels sure do help people navigate past the crap. Whoever said labelling music into genres was a bad idea WAS WRONG.

About time we got another vid!

thank you for shining a light on neoperreo, I submitted it to RYM originally and spent a lot of time researching the genre, you've done a pretty great job of covering the sound and scene :]

glad afrobeat and Fela Kuti got a mention afrobeats makes my searching obscure afrobeat bands difficult

I think in this era, people rarely focuses on hiphop or rock, this is the time where EDM Subgenres pop out a lot. Moombahton (EDM Reggaeton), Jungle Terror (Final Boss of EDM Festival genre), Uptempo (crazy fast 200+bpm kick that existed since 2012 now sounds like piep zaag), Future Funk (as in the video), Vaporwave, Slap House, Witch House, Modern Lo-Fi (the chill girl for studying), Riddim, Tearout, Brostep, Hard Trap, Hybrid trap, Bounce Trap, Dark Trap, Festival Trap, Arabic trap (Get Low by DJ Snake), Rawstyle, Psytrance, Melbourne Bounce, Bigroom, Tech House and many more. IDK how much but believe me, there's more.

Your Boards of Canada "Chillwave" was all actually a genre called "Ambient" or sometimes "Ambient Downtempo", a classification from around 1999 popularized in rave culture starting around 2001 when it became a staple of "chill rooms" across the underground scene.

Amazing video! I think I need to check out some of those artists mentioned that I didn't know of yet (or didn't gave a big chance). :) I think another "genre" that would have been (weird but) interesting is Vocaloid. Although I don't really like to "claim" it as a genre since VOCALOID is a vocal synthesizer from Yamaha. The whole topic is craaazy - been in the fandom for some years and tried it out myself. But Vocaloid is so much more than just the software. Beginning at the various voicebanks with Miku Hatsune being the most famous one but there are a BUNCH - no, a TON of other voicebanks and almost all of them got their one character design. The voicebanks are recorded from real professionals for example the voice behind Miku Hatsune is voice actress Saki Fujita, Miriam Stockley is the voice of MIRIAM, Gackpoid/Gakupo has the voice of japanese rock legend Gackt and so on. But the first Vocaloids were LEON, LOLA (both english) and MEIKO and KAITO (both japanese). There are Vocaloids or rather voicebanks in spanish, korean, japanese, english and mandarin. There is another software based of VOCALOID called UTAU which allows everyone to create their own voicebank and do their of covers. You don't even need to work a lot on those covers, just import the correct files, maybe edit it a bit and bam - got your own cover (mostly for funsies but if you but more effort in it shows). You can also upload your voicebank so other people can work with your voice/UTAU. Also there are VOCALOID live concerts, Miku Hatsune being one of Lady Gaga's opening acts some years ago etc. There are also some western artists using/experimenting with VOCALOID like Anamanaguchi and Porter Robinson (who got his own official Vocaloid lately). Some of the most famous j-pop artists originated from this area like Eve (Vocaloid Producer and Singer), Kenshi Yonezu (know as vocaloid producer HachiP) and Ado (heavy influece from Vocaloid songs). And then there is this (slightly disturbing and) almost end of the Vocaloid iceberg with producers like kikuo and their... songs. I guess Vocaloid would be an iceberg in an iceberg. But maybe worth mentioning. Peace :)

It's very easy to see why the Amen break is used over and again. It takes a special someone to flip the soundtrack to "my cavities getting filled" or "there is an unauthorized charge on my credit card".

Petition to rechristen Jizz Jazz as Roadhouse, cuz all those bands sound like they belong in Twin Peaks

u continue to be one of the best music history channels!

Great video as always, Bandsplaining. Although, you forgot Scottish Celtic Folk Rock but hopefully, maybe a future video can describe that genre of music and the revival that created it. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Nice coverage. Only new thing I can think to add would maybe be Blackgaze

I’ve been calling it Post-Demarco instead of jizz jazz for years now. You just reinforced that in your video. I wish it would catch on.

Some additional info: Vaporwave was inspired by Houston’s hip hop scene and a genre popularized there called “chopped & screwed” that would edit songs by slowing them down and repeating them. Hyperpop was also partially influenced by futuristic swag, a subgenre of trap that emerged in Atlanta in the late 2000s that tried to create a digital, autotuned sound to complement an early internet era.

NEOPERREO MENTIONED!!!! CHILE MNTIONED!!!!

Mentioning XXXtentacion and Yung Lean but not Bones/Xavier Wulf or $uicideboys… Those two camps and the hype they stirred (along with lean and lil ugly mane) are what collectively sonically bridged the gap between cloud rap and SoundCloud rap. The hype that SESHOLLOWATERBOYZ, and G59 both generated from ‘13-late ‘15 lead to a lot of attention being brought to a sound that music journalists and critics noses started following and that record labels tried turning into something more shiny and accessible (literally what record labels in the late 90s/early00s saw did to 90s hardcore/emo and tried churning it into your Fall out boys/scene shit) and lo and behold it, it imploded with that XXL shit.

Great video, although im not a fan of using an iceberg as the structure. Usually an iceberg represents a very wide dive into the topic, with many (50+) examples and very obscure topics near the bottom. Almost everything in this video is quite popular

Awesome video! It looks like the Meta Trend of 2010s Music was a kind of dreamy digital synth sound. I wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't for a summary like this!

I understand you only have so much time, but Flamingosis could have been a great mention during Future Funk, as he pops up so much if you listen to acts like Yung Bae, Macross 82-99, and Saint Pepsi (Skylar Spence). If there could be an "English/American" version of City Pop Revival, I feel like Flamingosis fits the bill.

32:14 I never quite remember the name of this album, but i've always went back to it in my saved playlists to hear. A lot of times before and while sleeping, never i thought this was somewhat iconic but here it is, i re-encounter this little masterpiece of my heart again... Wow, thanks for bringing it back to my life

I came up with the idea of calling the Mac DeMarco /Men I Trust genre "Indie Lounge". It certainly works much better than jizz jazz. Just throwing it out there.

Love the concept

Great vid. Just subbed. ....needs more moombahton ;)

Always a good day when upload

I dig various degrees of OPN's discography yet had no idea they were a pioneer of vaporwave lmao.

The thing that's really going to stand out about the 2010s for me, was the total dissolution of distinct genres and time periods. The Internet allowed people to listen to anything, from anywhere in the world, and from any time period. These massively varied influences created a lot of really creative genre mashups. The future of music is bright

Read somewhere that Mac DeMarco's is called "Bedroom Pop"? But idk

cool stuff! missed 70-80% of these at the time, gonna catch up now :)

this video put a lot of perspective on my childhood listening, thanks dude

Happy to see my love egg punk in here

i think a genre that was missing could be Corridos Tumbados, it has gained international notoriety in the 2020's thanks to Peso Pluma but it has been in the making in Mexico since the 2010's. Could see it as taking elements from regional mexican music called Corridos, more specifically from Sierreño, which features the instrumentalization of the genre and hip hop culture the word 'Tumbado" from its name refers to the style pf hip hop culture, according to Natanael Cano, one of the first and most important makers of thw genre it was mainly inspired by trap flows and production Theres a video by amazon music called Corridos tumbados feat. Natanael Cano about the genre explained by him it has evolved a lot but it has remained its elements of using instruments of the region but lately it has notoriously added more polished production and more instruments, especially brass, which contrasts with its bedroom-esque beginnings. it has also been dwelling and getting mixed with more elements of electronic music. if i could choose some albums id consider important to the genre they'd be - Corridos Tumbados - Natanael Cano ( it's a collaborative album between various artists of the genre signed by Rancho Humilde but it's mainly driven by Nata) - Mi Vida en un Cigarro - Junior H (First album release by Junior, an importamt artist of the genre, he has focused on a more melancholic approach to the genre, some fans even say some of.his works give off the same vibes as Lana del Rey) - Tu Veneno Mortal - Eslabón Armado ( Eslabón armado is one of the first groups to feature brass isntruments more predominantly, which is a defining characteristic of.the genre in its modern form) - Del Barrio Hasta Aquí - Fuerza Regida ( a group that has gained more notoriety in the latest years collabing with various artists outsude of the genre) - Genesis - Peso Pluma (singles from this album have made the genre international and has locked its sound to what it's considered now, even giving them a show in the tonight show and a feat with kali uchis)

I know you said you weren't including dubstep since it technically originated in the 00s, but damn if it didn't have a huge impact on 2010's music (i would argue that it reached it's peak popularity during this time) and can be found in a lot of hyperpop too.

Powerful documentary right here. Some fun stuff.

Damn good video mate

I'm really enjoying this video. You always make great shit.

Great video! If you do a part 2: Jersey Club, Donk and Future Bounce

Very interesting video, any chance you'll do this for the 2000s?

Snubbing Crystal Castles is insane

loved this alot, thanks

I would say that you've missed out UK Techno / Bass Music, a direct evolution of OG dubstep, with labels such as Hessle Audio, Livity Sound and Timedance pushing the genre forward. Many of the artists previously contributed to dubstep. The tracks have the emptyness and soundsystem culture influence of dubstep, but with a more techno inspired bass focus. Really was at it's peak in the mid oughts, and I would say has already evolved into something else in recent years.

This was really well done. Good cultural context for the 2010s as a decade

fantastic video. just wanted to say that.

tbh I think it's really interesting how lots of these genres are sparked by the internet. Like, nearly all of them are heavily influenced by the opportunities offered by the internet. Without it, global music genres like Amapiano, Afrobeats, Neoperreo, City Pop Revival, etc probably wouldn't have been so widespread and people probably wouldn't have been able to share their own takes on it because of the opportunities offered by that quick communication. But due to the the rise of newer, updated technology, people also feel nostalgic for older vibes and aesthetics brought by stuff like 80s tech or the early internet, leading to stuff like Chillwave, Vaporwave, and those genres like "Jazz Jazz," Witch House, and Hexd that came after them

thank you for the nostalgia trip 😅

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏 learned alot ❤❤❤

TIL Lil B is the most influencial artist of the last decade

For metal I believe Thall was invented in the 2010s. It is a cousin of djent.

Here's one which is very niche but has had something of an outsized impact for its relative obscurity: New-school death industrial, or more accurately, whatever the hell we are going to call what has been happening in death industrial for the last decade-and-a-half once more people realise that it's no longer one thing. Now, for clarity, death industrial-which is usually and somewhat misleadingly described as a blend of power electronics (a particularly violent, screamy and abstract subgenre of industrial music pioneered by Whitehouse circa 1980) and dark ambient (which developed out of industrial at around the same time with artists like Lustmord)-has been a distinct phenomenon within industrial music and noise since at least the early '90s, with precursors in the European power electronics scene going back to the mid '80s, but I would make the argument that the style of death industrial which coalesced around the Danish label Posh Isolation (founded in 2009) is very much its own thing. The use of lush and saturated yet often icy instrumental palettes mixing synths and eclectic additional instrumentation (especially strings) and clean, detail-oriented production with a somewhat reduced emphasis on harsher or explicitly noisy textures in favour of clear melodic elements with an overall melancholic bent is pretty distinctive when contrasted with the dense, cacophonous, often reverb-heavy soundscapes of old-school death industrial (cf. the Cold Meat Industry roster; Pharmakon is a more modern example), and while it didn't come out of nowhere by any means-setting aside the logical progression from more traditional dark ambient music, power electronics pioneers Sutcliffe Jügend's gradual pivot towards these sounds in the mid '00s and various releases around the same time by Prurient and Burial Hex provide a clear precedent, as do individual tracks by more traditional death industrial artists such as Navicon Torture Technologies and IRM-I would argue that the particular style being advanced by artists such as Damien Dubrovnik and Puce Mary didn't really come into its own until the 2010s. In terms of mainstream exposure, Prurient's Frozen Niagara Falls in 2015 and Uboa's The Origin of My Depression in 2019 were pretty huge, but the real crossover success would be Lingua Ignota, who I wouldn't really call a death industrial artist in her own right (different conversation) but was very clearly drawing on that lineage across her first two records. There is certainly a continuum between "old-school" and "new-school" death industrial, but it feels more like the grey area between older death industrial and more "traditional" power electronics: A cline with two very obvious extremes which are functionally different species (in this case, Brighter Death Now and Croatian Amor) and a lot of more ambiguous cases in between. One could call this newer style a number of things, with Burial Hex's self-identification as "horror electronics" based on his influences from horror movie soundtracks or Prurient's description of later albums such as Rainbow Mirror as "doom electronics" fitting some records in this vein but not others, and the common tendency on the Internet seems to be to just call it all "death industrial" without really drawing a distinction. Anyway, to offer a few examples of what I'm talking about. First, here's "Arrow 5" from Damien Dubrovnik's 2017 record Great Many Arrows, which I think perfectly illustrates the peculiar and unsettling marriage of rich, almost symphonic production and eerie, distorted vocals characteristic of this style: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9JngZhhmbDcYYU.html Next, the title track from Uboa's The Origin of My Depression, which starts off even more restrained until building to a truly harrowing climax: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mL57YMt6ndyomn0.html Finally, since I brought up Sutcliffe Jügend earlier, here's one of their most understated and almost pretty tracks, "Poison (An Ending)", off of the bonus disc to their truly massive 2019 record Relentless: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otSPhatl2pucgps.html (I would have put "On Her Decline" from The Deluge here, which is maybe the crown jewel of this microgenre, but it doesn't seem to be on KZfaq as a standalone track.) For the old school, the archetypal example is probably Brighter Death Now's '90s/early '00s output (Innerwar, Great Death, Necrose Evangelicum), although given how grisly a lot of his album art is, I'd recommend treading carefully when looking his stuff up if you are at all squeamish.

Make one of these for all the decades pls

i got from citypop 2019 plastic love revival, to future funk and vaporwave, my first song was private caller by saint pepsi, then cherry pepsi, and then it went...

i love how i was there when most of these genres were coming up, kinda feels like i was a part of something, the culture, my generation, and it all happened on the internet; i dont think growing up online was that bad, it still feels nice to look back at what id discovered throughout that time im pretty excited for what the 2020s got in store, as it seems that its gona be abrasive cuz of the covid brain damage and being chronically online becoming the default, and not a counter-culture; seems that we've started with the resurgence of breakcore to sustain our overstimulated adhd brains i hope i dont lose touch with the new stuff and i can look back satisfied again

Out of all of those genres, the only ones I really like are vaporwave, future funk, and some of the "emo rap"ish SoundCloud rappers like Juicewrld

do one for the 2020s i know there's barely anything new thats gotten big yet but it would still be pretty interesting

ty for the shoutout

Awesome

Disappointed to find out that "Jizz Jazz" isn't just songs in the stylings of the Cantina band from Star Wars

Any South Africans here? That AmaPiano reference came from nowhere lol