What Happened to Beat Drops?!?
Cowritten by: Brin DeRouen
Edited by: Connor Sullivan (@csullyLIVE)
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Welcome to a conversation about the difference between today’s beat drops and the beat drops of yesterday. Aka the early 2010’s. Where we once had Skrillex going absolutely nuts and throwing a war of sound effects at you, society has seemingly moved on. Now, instead, we have the smooth, cool bass/vocal drops that Mr. Charlie Puth has referred to as the “anti-drop”. Here’s a brief history at something that is still very much in the works today.
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@Reesle
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
This is precisely why my favourite songs are from the 2014-2018 era. Best drops imo. I hate about 95% of anti-drops.
@guyfrompluto-420
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Daft punk’s “Harder better faster stronger” has a very good anti drop
@BreadSlicer666
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
In the club… straight "jopping" it
@natangweiitula
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Ruff 😂😂😂😂
@andrevitor.x
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
K-Pop is really full of antidrops hahaha
Pop is sad now, we need a fun revival
@adam346
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
1:11 speak for yourself, I still listen to plenty of metal that do both beat-drops (sort of) and so many, many, many break-downs… it's a bit ridiculous and they are almost a meme in metal these days but they are just part of the floor-work and a good way to inject both a different style and break up a song into different parts without using a-typical writing.
@conradmusicofficial586
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
oh yes I love Chungha! I never heard anyone talk about her before
@cynzix
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
The first example that came to mind is Chainsmokers' "Don't Let Me Down"
@freezhollywood
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I was just talking to my friend about beat drops and how they used to make the song feel bigger and make a line stand out n make it a moment. Especially rappers tht use witty wordplay like Wayne or 2 Chainz and Kanye. Made everything feel bigger. I hate minimalism. Bring back the bigness and brightness.
@giancarlofelicianocastaned9316
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Pink Venom has one of the best anti drops ever.
@elstovon
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Wow! Really awesome video with some serious food for thought. You gave really great examples and I love what you said about music trends balancing each other out I can think of so many examples of that! Your content style is so fun. Also thank you for some amazing random underground recommendations… love Trophy Wife and Raavi
@drendelous
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
could not care less about k-pop
@MarmaladeMagnolia
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Was this video got transported from 2019 or something? Cuz as far as I know this anti-beat drop trend seems to only popular during the late 2010s, in this decade so far the songs are usually either don’t have a beat drop buildup or have one plus with an actual beat drop
@themarky2714
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Jack ü and The Weekend started recording Where Are ü Now and Can't Feel Myself in 2014, and both released their hits in 2015 feels like a case of convergent evolution where they ended up in their interpretation of the then unnamed anti drop.
@unshookclothing
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
You’ve been killing it lately thank you Alfo
@Peskycide
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Okay, but is a day in the life's final piano chord the first anti-drop?
@bigfatrockstar4991
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I’ll also add that right after This Is What You Came For, Calvin just chose to completely abandon the drop entirely and just focus on the dance beats on Funk Wav Bounces. And yet that album has some of the best songs he’s ever made
@renatocfrancisco
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
"drop it francis, drop that nasty drop"
@derraumdeuter3671
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Is alfo a MMA fan by any chance?
@dunnowy123
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Came for an explanation for today's sound. Stayed for the KPop reccos
@agonzalez7095
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
this is like the industrial revolution and its consequences but its The xx and Lorde and their consequences
@ukjent1626
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
In Norway we still listen to a lot of music with drops the genre of "russemusikk" as its called here feature them heavily, and it never occurred to me that people elsewhere partied to boring pop-hits with anti drops. Can someone describe the party music In the US or elsewhere im actually very curious?
@munecoin9986
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Locked out of heaven is an excellent example of an anti drop that came out in 2012. A banger as well
@newpancakeman
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
In my opinion the master of this “anti drop” seems to be Dua Lipa. It seems like every one of her monster hits has this massive build up to her over a stripped down drop
@DoraEmon-gu1te
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
That is reason i move to kpop right now
@kristinlerch7739
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I'm a big lover of the whole "chorus with reduced instrumentation after the 3rd verse or final bridge" because of all the build up to something big and then the sudden drop and feel like this trend is is giving me lots of small doses of that throughout the song. Love it
@kkoakey
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
just beacause a song does not have a drop does not mean its called anti-drop …please!!!
@justsomeguywholikesmangoes1363
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Christ, you fell off.
@vdal2902
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
For some reason I could not for the life of me think of a song with a drop and then out of nowhere Feeling Good by Nina Simone popped in my head but idk if it would even count in this specific discussion lol
@jkRatbird
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
My first thought was that it’s a backlash from brostep.
@solomonpnq
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
"I WAS RUNNING THROUGH THE SIX WITH MY WOES, AND YOU KNOW HOW THAT SHI GO!"
@lIIest
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I admire you ability to talk so much about music for people that don't really like music.
@abrazjak
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
My first thought when I saw the title – Lorde The Louvre
@leandrrrbrrr
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Finally someone talks about this subject, I’ve been witnessing this change in music
@BigOwl51
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I miss the days where pop music was happy, bright, fun and danceable. It felt like an endless summer vacation. Now It feels like everyone is desperate to sound lowkey, depressed and lonely. Hopefully someday this style of pop music will return to the forefront of culture.
@KeyDash753
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I find it strange that one of the prototypical example in the opening was Martin Garrix's Animals. I always thought that one of the most memorable parts of that song was how antidrop its drop is. The build is huge, typical for EDM of the time then… instead of the explosion of sound and energy, you get something quite like many of the antidrop examples in this video.
@degausserrr
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I think that the post-brostep pop-EDM drops have finally lost some steam and the house/tech-house/techno scene is becoming more popular. When i think of the death of drops I think about DJ Snake, Marshmello, Calvin Harris, etc
@WindowsNT_
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
If anyone wanted to know the music around 4:43 is both of us – idealism
@8teenOfficial
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
You can actually relate that anti-drop about why modern tech house is the hip genre on EDM nowadays. It's the opposite of the big anthemic drops of the early 2010's (Hardwell, KSHMR, Afrojack), now it is more bare bones with its approach, where you only need groovy bassline and house drums and some big leads here and there sprinkled throughout the song.
Some great examples:
Beggin – Chris Lake & Aluna
Baby again.. – Fred again.., Skrillex & Four Tet
On My Mind – Diplo & SIDEPIECE
Bel Mercy – Jengi
@Sssighh
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I think the turn from music being a public thing to being a much more private headphone-based activity in the streaming era definitely has something to do with it.
@Pau-sp9yp
October 28, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I believe that even though it tries to go a different way.
A drop is a drop, even if it isn't loud, it still is a sudden and important step of the song that has been building up. The main difference is the style of it and how it is presented.
I love both types and i hope they coexist at some point.