Can I get a whoop whoop?
August 28, 2016 12:46 PM Subscribe
“The Millennial Whoop”: The same annoying whooping sound is showing up in every popular song
Standing on the giant shoulders of Pachelbel (previously and previously), it's well known that all the greatest pop songs ever written just use four chords (previously), and pop music just all sounds the same anyway. Sir Mashalot shows us that pop country is clearly not immune (previously).
But Patrick Metzger noted this oddly specific pattern cropping up in various millennial pop songs:
Standing on the giant shoulders of Pachelbel (previously and previously), it's well known that all the greatest pop songs ever written just use four chords (previously), and pop music just all sounds the same anyway. Sir Mashalot shows us that pop country is clearly not immune (previously).
But Patrick Metzger noted this oddly specific pattern cropping up in various millennial pop songs:
It’s a sequence of notes that alternates between the fifth and third notes of a major scale, typically starting on the fifth. The rhythm is usually straight 8th-notes, but it may start on the downbeat or on the upbeat in different songs. A singer usually belts these notes with an “Oh” phoneme, often in a “Wa-oh-wa-oh” pattern. And it is in so many pop songs it’s criminal.
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