Do you feel out of touch by the Hottest 100 or is it the children who are wrong? 30 years of audio data has revealed fascinating insights into the evolution of the Hottest 100 and the changing tastes of young Australians.
Songs were sad, they were as slow as they'd ever been, and energy levels were down, but songs were the best they'd ever been to dance to.Along with the skyrocketing tempo changes, valence, the measure of positivity, increased every year between 2019 and 2021. The countdown of 2021 was the most positive year for the Hottest 100 in more than a decade, and the number one song for that year — a Wiggles cover of Tame Impala — was one of the most positive songs to ever top the countdown.
"Music doesn't exist in a vacuum, it lives in a place at a time in a society and is listened to and made by a particular bunch of people at any given time," she said.Dr O'Regan also suggested the impact of COVID-19 on music might be felt for years to come as many artists chose to delay releases because of the devastating impact of lockdowns on the music industry.
But as tastes changed and the ability to discover and share music through the internet emerged, the genres began to diversify. "We started to get disco and punk, and new spaces to allow for different kinds of music to be made as part of either the mainstream or not the mainstream. And I think that's absolutely continued, almost on a micro level these days."Looking at the genre data, we're able to see rock music hit a low in 2018 and 2019, with just six songs from that genre making it into the count in those years. But since then, it has been steadily creeping back in.
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