bad-takes

Music

these songs all made my mind go WHAT IS THAT on the first listen.

How/why? I think all criteria have to be there:

- distictive voice
- novel musicality (grunge guitar, vocal slide, trumpets where they don't belong, etc.)
- an extreme subject matter
- listener is age 14-25, or, going through something

Contrast with someone like Bruno Mars, who has all the vocal tools, the catchiest hooks, and I listen to over and over
probaby 100x anyone on this list, yet I consider to be derivative and merely enjoyable.




for me, it's the same as the distinction between
		
Beatles and The Monkees

Star Trek and Star Wars

LoTR and GoT

Eddie Murphy and Kevin Hart

Clanker and Larry