Some artists have aged better than others.
which topped the charts on Jan. 2, reigned for nine weeks, and eventually became the highest-performing chart hit of 2010., and it was presented as a kind of mass #tbt moment, prompting viewers to reflect on how far music had traveled in a decade, and how quickly yesterday’s new-fangled trifle can end up representing whatever the pop version of “classic rock” is.
Hindsight may be 2020 , but in retrospect “Tik Tok” feels like an appropriate harbinger of so much of the good and ill that was on the horizon in the coming decade—from pop’s embrace of new, self-consciously “weird” personalities to its algorithmically precise forms of hit-making. There’s also an eerie tinge of #MeToo foreshadowing in the song’s creation story: It was co-written and co-produced by Dr.
Another notable happening in the waning days of 2009: On Dec. 25, a practically unknown 18-year-old rapper who called himself Tyler, the Creator dropped his incendiary debut mixtape,. Tyler and his cohort in the L.A. hip-hop collective Odd Future were the subject of roughly one bazillion thinkpieces the following year, with many critics accusing Tyler of homophobia and misogyny on the basis of his use of the wordand the violent rape fantasies he occasionally rapped about.
Was I too quick to judge Tyler 10 years ago, blinded by cheap outrage? Hard to say—the past few years have taught us anew why plenty of people have a right to feel queasy and triggered when artists indelicately invoke sexual assault. But I’m also glad I’ve been able to witness his artistic evolution. It’s been an unexpected treat, hearing him grow.
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