So far I think “Uptown Funk”, “Blinding Lights”, and “Old Town Road”. That doesn’t mean I love those songs. It means I think they answer the question. I know you may love “Irony x3” by Zigbones. But they ain’t it.
Edit: I’m sorry for the poorly worded question. I think it’s autism related, but I don’t see possibilities or alternative understandings easily, and when I wrote “decade” I thought 10 years and that was it.
Of course anyone answering from the perspective of 2010-2020 was making a perfectly reasonable and rational answer and I was very dismissive. I’m really sorry for that.
Decapcito will be the ice ice baby of the 2010s.
Talking about pop:
- Blinding lights
- Rolling in the deep
- Get Lucky
- Happy
No need to write the singers, that’s how famous they are.
Random Access Memories is such a good album, pretty much every song on there is timeless imo.
I wouldn’t count them out quite yet. Thomas Bangaltar and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are still producing stuff each on their own. Sometimes they even collaborate on the same project. I don’t think there will be another Daft Punk album or song but I suspect their hands are going to be on a lot of work.
There’s a new Tron movie being worked on. I have no idea who’s doing the music, but the soundtrack for the most recent Tron was such a big reason it had any success. The movie looked cool, but it sounded amazing. The story was bland as hell, which is a shame. That’s one of the few soundtracks for a movie I’ll actually listen to outside of the movie, and I can’t see whatever the new one does being even half as good.
your wording was a tad ambiguous. it is possible that the above commenter thought you were asking about the last decade, as in the 2010s, rather than the last decade, as in the ten years immediately preceding today (roughly 2014-2024)
@juliebean@lemm.ee is right, I thought OP was referring to 2010-20! OP: you can edit the text and clarify the year range for the other posters
I only know Blinding lights from those. Looks like I’m pretty out of touch with modern music.
Anyone over 35 should just not answer this question, very little chance we’ll be right
Also, for anyone over 35, our ability to understand “last decade” means the last 10 years, decreases over time. I read this question and still thought about songs that came out 2009.
I think that is up for interpretation a little bit. “The last decade” I think grammatically it means the last 10 years. In this case 2014-2024. But I am so used to it referring to the years ending in zero that my head immediately goes to 2010-2020 not 2014-2024. Especially in the context of music. Music is historically is reference as the years ending in zero 60s, the 70s the 2000s 2010s etc…
It depends. It can mean either. Technically though, I believe each decade is 1-10, not 0-9, although this mistake is so common I don’t think it matters and can mean either.
Woah, slow down there professor calculus, not all of us have 10 fingers to count on
I think I disagree. Only a very small subset of music from the decade permeated my oblivion of modern music. I expect the songs that managed to do that are the ones that will be remembered. I agree with OP’s list, I know those songs.
Add to that:
- Born this Way
- Wake me up
- Shake it off
- Someone that I used to know
Nothing too niche or topical. Has to have some sort of timeless quality, meaningful lyrics and emotional resonance. Not a “fad” genre, a sea shantey won’t do (yes its centuries of tradition but in it’s old form it isn’t mainstream). Cultural impact which means it will moat likely be from your mainstream artists, taylor swift, kanye west, maybe billie eilish gets there. I also think it’s probably going to be more women defining an era of music than ever before.
Added advantages, either something that was early in a musical tradition or helped it peak, we’ve seen this with classics in the moat recent big genre, rap.
As for the tiktok songs. We don’t know how internet virality affects the legacy of these songs. A lot of the earbugs are shallow short bits. I’m going to ignore those, otherwise I think some of the smarter songs will maybe be appreciated a little while later too.
So my list:
- Royals by lorde
- Rolling in the deep by adele
- Runaway by Kanye
- Sign of the times by harry styles
- Hotline Bling by drake, i’m 50/50 on this one
- All Too Well/ Blank Space by Taylor Swift
- Alright by Kendrick Lamar
- Formation by Beyonce
- Teenage Dream by Katy Perry
- Chandlier by Sia
- Uptown Funk Mark Ronson 50/50
- Let It Happen by Tame Impala
- Nights by Frank Ocean
I think a couple of these are pre 2014 tho. But are within the last 15 for sure.
Rolling in the deep is too old for sure. I almost included Royals but it was just too old at 11 years.
Unless you consider “the last decade” being 2010-2020 with us in “the current decade” now, 2020-2030
I absolutely interpreted the question as songs from last decade (2010-2020). Turns out I lack a useful attention span to read a title. It is clearly outlined that OP meant 2014-2024.
Look at what Weird Al has parodied. Because it’s gonna be disproportionately that.
