Nostalgia Overload: The Genres Of The 2010s

Every decade has spawned new genres of music: Rock in the 50s, hip hop in the 80s, etc. So what about the most recent full decade: the 2010s? Has musical innovation slowed to the point where no significant new genres have emerged? Or was the decade, in fact, full of innovation; you just had to know where to look? Well if the length of this video is any indication, it turns out it’s the latter. There were a TON of new genres, more than we could include even in a 1 hour+ video.
Check out the podcast follow-up to the video on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/podcast-3-new-of-102945329
There were so many songs featured in this video, we cannot list them like we normally do. So please refer to the titles in the video to ID a specific track. OR, check out this Spotify playlist, which has every song in the order it was included: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6y792siRSJpSRMfz0o01F6 (minus the ones that aren’t on Spotify)
2:37 Alternative R&B
3:58 Drill
5:52 Afrobeats
10:02 Neoperreo
14:11 Chillwave
18:29 Cloud Rap
25:11 Vaporwave
33:12 Hyperpop
39:43 SoundCloud Rap
45:51 Witch House
47:01 Amapiano
49:25 Phonk
50:36 Funk Mandelão
52:19 Egg Punk
53:51 HexD
55:36 Jizz Jazz
58:17 City Pop Revival & Future Funk
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Editing by @sedatefobia
@Bandsplaining
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Hey friends, there's a follow-up podcast to this video here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/podcast-3-new-of-102945329
Also, you can check out a playlist of these songs (in order) here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6y792siRSJpSRMfz0o01F6
@Markm8
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Were is Megalovania? Theres more remixes of that song than there are bands
@Markm8
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Hmm hex and I thought i was listening to breakcore
@danielebianchi6635
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Maybe the best music related video I've ever seen on YouTube
@erickmay405
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
It’s interesting to see how much of a role The Weeknd played in bringing multiple genres and people from this video into the mainstream. Obviously, he was one of the key figures in alternative R&B, but also on his Dawn FM album, Oneohtrix Point Never handled much of the production, including the track Out of Time, which prominently samples a city pop song.
@erickmay405
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Awesome video. Only other genre I would’ve included is lofi hip-hop / chillhop
@swapsplat
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
"The problem with today's music" isn't a million subgenres. It's that "pop" music is so formulaic that everything the last 20 years songs the same. A song from the 90s is totally different than a song from the 70s. And a song from the 60s is totally different than the 80s…
But a song from 2004 isn't any different than a song from 2024…
@soaribb32
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Hm I don't know if afrobeats is divorced from nostalgia since it's literally Afro beat, popularized by Fela Kuti, mixed with hip hop and R&B and others.
@AuriSchnauri
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
RELAX YOUR BROWS PLEASE
@Ocre-xd6sy
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Let's goooo Hexd
@shaunzankiestein5840
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
"Hello, I'm Tim Rogers, and welcome to music."
@hexobyte2261
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Would love to see a video like this covering the genres of the 2000s as well!
@drummerjack03
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
the midwest emo revival from the very late 00’s and all throughout the 10’s absolutely should’ve been on this list. midwest emo started in the 90’s but it was soon completely overshadowed by pop emo. but in the 10’s (especially ‘08-‘18) the more DIY, math rock inspired sub genre had a MAJOR revival with bands like algernon cadwallader, TTNG, modern baseball, mom jeans, and dozens of others. it’s definitely my favorite genre of the 10’s and bands like hot mulligan are still keeping this genre alive and fresh
@slimjongil
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
All roads always lead back to Lil B. TYBG
@jao581
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
isnt jizz jazz just… bedroom pop?
@gh0s1wav
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Damn I feel so sorry for you. You didn't experience "Audi" when it dropped. Legit game changing song😁
@j4ckoe
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
when will george clanton get his flowers
@anderson.ribeiro
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
That was a great video! Shout out from Brazil!
@marmoth9786
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
DORIAN ELECTRA MENTIONED
@smurfette_blues7922
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Sometimes i think hyperpop died with the passing of SOPHIE.
@ratsbath
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
As a millennial whose music tastes were basically set in stone during the peak chillwave/vaporwave era of the first Obama term, this is a great primer to all the stuff I missed since then. LOVED learning about Egg Punk, what if Early Devo was a whole genre??? I'm SO on board
@Montano214
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
how you gonna forget lofi hip hop and the livestreams on youtube they have 😂
@ky_DJ
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
u look like fantano with a wig
@the9thinning1
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Awesome
@IAmostSeeTheWorld
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Bruh future funk is not the same as city pop
@fluffysharkdatazz9460
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
All my favorite genres I hate and can’t stand for the first year or two
@vampires4life
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
i hear "jizz jazz" bein refferred 2 as "zoomer gaze"
@harleymatthews5091
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Oscilloscope music ? Haha
@autumnpepper1255
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Really good and insightful video! Now I’m reminiscing on banger songs to give a re-listen to.
@AntonioGonzalez-tl3wc
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
this video is top content men, great work, greetings from Mexico
@transsexual_computer_faery
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
feel like we're missing a lot of metal subgenres and EDM subgenres here.
@pauloeduardoribeirofarage9145
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
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
@4Azr
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Man, you really just skipped the whole origin of soundcloud rap and what actually made it, I agree Uzi blew up that way but it was later, all of those artists just rode off the already known term soundcloud rappers which was a sticker for people like Xavier Wulf, Bones, Chris Travis, Eddy Baker, Denzel Curry, Yung Simmie, even Suicideboys and also Yung Lean and Bladee went on soundcloud during 2013, honestly Xavier Wulf known then as ethelwulf was a pioneer of soundcloud rap thing, the only one who you mentioned right was Lil Peep. Im not taking off anyone but Carti, Uzi, Juicewrld and X they all became known later on from 2015. I respect all that you said but respectfully that above is what happened on soundcloud first, btw love the video im not a hater
@anleg98
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
neoperreo mentioned!!!!
@aotctd
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Vaporwave is a total rip off of how we grew up
'' Future funk '' is also not new
Neither is '' emo ''
@aotctd
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
A lot is not exactly new
@nocturnalfolf6097
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
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
@mataya909
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Yuck!
@PuddleBooks
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Buddy, why did you steal your channels name off of Yasi Seliks podcast?
@gunner6233
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
neo perreo is the most santiago shit to ever exist
@SJursa-ey4tt
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
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…
@Carol-zb7uf
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Ok I’m not even a huge chillwave fan but you cannot talk about chillwave without talking about Panda Bear’s Person Pitch. That record is notoriously credited with incidentally starting chillwave. Merriweather post Pavillion also really changed the game and influenced the whole chillwave thing. Pretty sure a animal collective was one of the few bands from that era that Hipster Runoff actually took seriously, at least somewhat.
@DuckDeadly
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
I think you watch legal eagle, and have a subscription to nebula, lol.
@everythingiseconomics9742
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Btw Mandelão is pronounced mande-lan-oh
@skidthakid678
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Although you touched on egg punk. What I remember was Garage Punk. Tons of West Coast bands signed by a couple of indie labels. Ty Segall, FIDLAR, Bass Drum of Death, No Bunny the list goes on and on. Honestly I found this video trying to find one person who mentioned these bands because a lot of kids I grew up with listened to them. Majorly inspired by a mix of 60's Garage Rock like the Sonic's, Pychedelic Rock, and Pop Punk. Some of those bands started to take off but then were immediately overshadowed by the rise of trap which has continued until now, which mostly took out the rock music industry. No salt btw, nobody is shocked by rock anymore which is why I think trap was so successful.
@StillIchor
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
I thought Chillwave and Hypnagogic Pop were two separate genres, instead of synonyms for each other.
@xenoneuronics6765
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
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
@neurotica4276
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Petition to rechristen Jizz Jazz as Roadhouse, cuz all those bands sound like they belong in Twin Peaks
@yvindmygland6857
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
youth, oh youth…
@icychill105
September 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm
jizz jazz is a crazy weird name, its not jizz from starwars and its not jazz. definitely needs a better name.