DJ Earworm 2015½

June 17, 2016 6:04 PM

It's halfway through the year so that means it's time for DJ Earworm's Summermash '16!
posted by Talez (13 comments total)

I'm normally a big fan of DJ Earworm's United State of Pop mixes (And the Pop Danthology mixes), but I must be halfway to being Old, because I don't recognize a single song out of this, for the first time.

There's still hope though, we'll see if any I recognize pop up in the year-end mix.
posted by CrystalDave at 6:14 PM on June 17, 2016 [4 favorites]

lol I just started listening to top 40 pop on a regular basis recently (you can just queue up a mix of the top 40 on YouTube every whatever and it is 95% videos) and this is the first time I actually know the songs
posted by griphus at 6:26 PM on June 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

Haha CrystalDave I was having the same thought exactly in re: DJ Earworm and feeling old. It's a slow progression of "I know all these songs" to "I know some of these songs" to "Is this what kids today call music?"
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 6:28 PM on June 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

I'm still mad about how patronizing Justin Timberlake was at Eurovision when he was there to debut his single. Harrumph.
posted by zebra at 6:29 PM on June 17, 2016

P.S. There's a song in the top 40 sampling a Portishead track

see if you can find which one
posted by griphus at 6:30 PM on June 17, 2016

We're all mad about Justin Timberlake.

He knows what he did.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 6:31 PM on June 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

This could easily have been entirely Beyonce.

I watched the video and it kept showing me Beyonce and now I'm watching Lemonade for the eight time because it puts 99% of everything else to shame. (You should watch it too, again if you've only seen it once).

And then you can do some reading.
Because, yeah, it's that good.
posted by Neronomius at 7:12 PM on June 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

I think I liked 2015's pop better than 2016's so far (and this is reminding me how much I can't stand Drake's stupid voice), but "Cake By the Ocean" is just a fun goddamn song. I also really liked "Levels" (not included here). I guess "Me Myself and I" is pretty okay too, but I couldn't sing anything but the hook.
posted by uncleozzy at 7:14 PM on June 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

I think this works better than the full-year "United States of Pop mashups. Easier to build a catchy tune out of seven melodies instead of fifteen.
posted by Popular Ethics at 7:33 PM on June 17, 2016

What is the video with the freaky large mask on the dancefloor?
posted by grumpybear69 at 9:30 PM on June 17, 2016

What is the video with the freaky large mask on the dancefloor?

Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foE1mO2yM04
posted by synthetik at 9:33 PM on June 17, 2016 [1 favorite]

It's a slow progression of "I know all these songs" to "I know some of these songs" to "Is this what kids today call music?"

These days you're punished pretty harshly for exploring beyond your existing interests by recommendation algorithms that act like monkeys flinging turds at you because you once looked at a turd as you stepped around it.
posted by srboisvert at 5:42 AM on June 18, 2016

FWIW the tracklist is on DJ Earworm's site.
posted by asterix at 8:37 AM on June 18, 2016 [1 favorite]