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The last great pop hook

Started by kidsick5000, September 18, 2018, 01:43:14 PM

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kidsick5000

Girl's Aloud's The Promise cropped up on a Spotify list the other day.
Now, I'm not a huge consumer of pop, but it struck me that might be the last great pop hook that grabbed me. (Just 10 years ago, granddad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPrZ4yAdj8I

Pretty much as soon as it was gone, it had me humming "Promise I made, Promise I made"

Is it the last great pop hook? Am I even using the right terminology?

What the past one for you (please post examples)

momatt

The hook from Kanye West & Lil Pump's "I Love It" is bloody catchy!
Despite being massively radio-unfriendly and maybe a bit misogynistic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwQgjq0mCdE

Dr Rock

Hmm, If you like it then you should've put a ring on it. Can't think of any good ones since.

hummingofevil

Had to look it up but Sean Kingston's Beautiful Girl was 2007 so a year earlier.

Im not sure if I absolutely hate it or not but Starships by Nicki Minaj (2012) is a banger and you only need to hear that chorus once for it to be burned into your brain for life.

https://youtu.be/SeIJmciN8mo

You got Robyn's Dancing On My Own and almost everything Carly Rae Jepsen has put out from EMOTION sessions. Cut To The Feeling is more than suitable for consideration:

https://youtu.be/o97_jDomyqc


momatt

Quote from: bgmnts on September 18, 2018, 02:05:06 PM
Beuno Mars Uptown Funk?
Despite being hugely popular, it doesn't have much of a vocal melody really.

Quote from: hummingofevil on September 18, 2018, 01:58:37 PM
You got Robyn's Dancing On My Own and almost everything Carly Rae Jepsen has put out
Good call.

sevendaughters

Call Me Maybe is a massive hook, undeniable

Funcrusher

Quote from: sevendaughters on September 18, 2018, 02:10:48 PM
Call Me Maybe is a massive hook, undeniable

Yeah, that's the only one i can think of. 'Havana' is quite catchy.

chveik


buzby

Quote from: kidsick5000 on September 18, 2018, 01:43:14 PM
Girl's Aloud's The Promise cropped up on a Spotify list the other day.
Now, I'm not a huge consumer of pop, but it struck me that might be the last great pop hook that grabbed me. (Just 10 years ago, granddad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPrZ4yAdj8I

Pretty much as soon as it was gone, it had me humming "Promise I made, Promise I made"

I think you will find Xenomania nicked the hook for The Promise from Ronnie Hazlehurst's theme for Blankety Blank

kidsick5000

Quote from: buzby on September 18, 2018, 02:33:01 PM
I think you will find Xenomania nicked the hook for The Promise from Ronnie Hazlehurst's theme for Blankety Blank

Haha you absolute rotter! I've not even clicked the link and my brain has switched the Girls to sing Blankety Blank. Oh man, that's never going away.

Captain Z

Depends how you define 'great'. I'm very out of touch, but if by 'instantly recognisable' I can immediately think of

Cee lo Green - Forget You

Pharrel - Happy


While laid up in bed with the shits on a package holiday a few years ago I was flicking through the music video channels (which I don't ordinary do), and from the dozen or so songs in constant rotation, it was Meghan Trainor's 2014 arse-anthem 'All About The Bass' that stuck in my head afterwards for weeks.  So that's my vote.

Uncle TechTip


kidsick5000

Quote from: Captain Z on September 18, 2018, 05:18:38 PM
Depends how you define 'great'. I'm very out of touch, but if by 'instantly recognisable' I can immediately think of

For great, I think it has to be that part of the tune that's the earwig. the bit that you find yourself inadvertently whistling or humming. The bit of a tune that becomes your brain's on hold/screensaver music

Two recent ones for me that have had me Ear Wormed.

Nina Nesbit - Chewing Gum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RvmCsAHA4Y

Calvin Harris - Feels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozv4q2ov3Mk

Quote from: Funcrusher on September 18, 2018, 02:18:23 PM
Yeah, that's the only one i can think of. 'Havana' is quite catchy.
Second that one, sticks in the Brain.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth


pigamus

I was recently reading one of Caitlin Moran's books and she talks about being absolutely obsessed with Get Lucky when it came out. It always left me cold - it sounds to me more like an unnervingly good fake of the real thing rather than the real thing itself, if that makes sense. But I am a tiresome old man.

Lemming

Another vote for Call Me Maybe, it's absolutely sky-high.

PONPONPON by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (from 2012) has a pretty relentless hook that repeats itself until it's completely infiltrated your mind. There's a few other relatively recent j-pop and k-pop songs in a similar vein.

The first few years of this decade seemed to have quite a few nice Western pop songs, haven't seen many in the past 3 years or so though.

machotrouts

Quote from: Delete Delete Delete on September 18, 2018, 05:37:28 PMNina Nesbit - Chewing Gum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RvmCsAHA4Y

The catchiest Chewing Gum in pop is still the one by Annie (the ill-advisedly mononymous Norwegian pop lass, not the musical or the musical)

Z

Black Beatles by Rae Srumm.. Srummrd?

Flesh Without Blood by Grimes?

Trap Queen maybe? Tuesday?

Clownbaby

I might be the only person in the world who doesn't find Happy by Pharrell Williams catchy in the slightest and it has never, ever stuck in my head

alan nagsworth

Uhh, Immaterial by SOPHIE came out literally like two months ago, so yeah, that. Fucking barnstormer of a tune.

Aside from that, I'd have to agree that Carly Rae Jepsen sweeps it, not just with Call Me Maybe (though it is deservedly huge) but also with the vast majority of songs on the EMOTION album, and the EMOTION SIDE B album that followed. She's the fucking queen right now.

Also worthy of honourable mention is CHVRCHES, whose album Every Open Eye is an absolute marvel from beginning to end. The albums either side of this one, nnnot so much.

Tbh though, the underlying "pop's not as consistent as it used to be is it eh" tone of this thread is altogether a bit wack. Pop is as good as it's ever been, in the sense of what pop is supposed to be, and there's a great deal of properly conventional stuff and also weird, challenging stuff that has been consistently rocking my world over the last few years.

buzby

Quote from: machotrouts on September 18, 2018, 06:18:34 PM
The catchiest Chewing Gum in pop is still the one by Annie (the ill-advisedly mononymous Norwegian pop lass, not the musical or the musical)
Courtesy of Richard X & Hannah Robinson, who the previous month had used a similar hook on Some Girls for Rachael Stevens.

Sia's made a very successful career out of being a top line/hook writer:
Titanium with David Guetta (originally intended to be sung by Mary J. Blige, but Guetta preferred Sia's guide vocal)
Diamonds for Rihanna
Pretty Hurts for Beyonce
Loved Me Back To Life for Celine Dion (though Sia's guide vocal demo is vastly superior)

Of the songs she has either kept for herself or were written for others but rejected, there's Chandelier, Elastic Heart, Bird Set Free (written for Adele), Move Your Body (written for Shakira), Cheap Thrills (written for Rihanna), Broken Glass (written for Demi Lovato) - in fact, pretty much every track from her This Is Acting album it written around a killer hook, as they were all intended to be hits for other artists.

Twit 2

I can tolerate Sia when I'm driving my daughter around, which is high praise indeed. Most of the bilge makes me want to crash.

alan nagsworth

Quote from: buzby on September 18, 2018, 08:36:19 PM
Some Girls for Rachael Stevens

:O

I forgot about this song, it's so good! I also forgot how much I bloody fancy Rachel Stevens. Phew.

Golden E. Pump

On the subject of the OP, I prefer 'The Show'. Basically a three minutes series of banging hooks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGUIE844hxk

Beat of My Drum by Nicola Roberts is arguably the best British pop song to peak at number 27.

purlieu

Carly Rae Jepsen and Chvrches get my votes too, basically anything from Emotion, Emotion Side B and the Scots' first two albums.

Lady Gaga had a few good ones at the start of her career - Poker Face, Just Dance and Bad Romance are all fucking dangerous earworms to this day. Since then she hasn't had many notable examples though.

And, although everyone seems to hate it, Katy Perry's Chained to the Rhythm is in my head very regularly.