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Seems it goes up during bad times and then down during good times. Makes kind of sense. Pop music often tries to be counterculture.
[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/4082568/the-theory-of-the-13-year...
Interesting article. Too bad they resort to a clickbait title as opposed to the title used for it here on HN. My willingness to post an article on social media to share it with others is inversely proportionate to the clickbaityness of its title. If it has a clickbait title I ain’t posting it. And this one does, so I won’t. Too bad, because the article is good.
Bye bye Venga boys, bye bye Dr Alban, bye bye Alexis and GoGo Girls , bye bye Mel&Kim or Jackie Rawe, we will not see you again.
I'm a fan of generally more aggressive music, and I'm also an old fart, but whenever I'm (usually accidentally) exposed to anything from nowadays, it sounds "too happy" to me - saccharine, treacly, shallow, heavy on notes 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the major scale, full of "millenial whoops" ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=millenial+whoop ) and so on. So hearing that "pop music is getting sadder and angrier" sur…
Interesting article. Too bad they resort to a clickbait title as opposed to the title used for it here on HN. My willingness to post an article on social media to share it with others is inversely proportionate to the clickbaityness of its title. If it has a clickbait title I ain’t posting it. And this one does, so I won’t. Too bad, because the article is good.
So the clickbait was actually providing the payoff it promised? The article was good, so you aren't going to post it because its title was too catchy? "Clickbait" is when you get suckered into clicking bad content via a catchy headline. It isn't clickbait when it's actually a good article that "delivers" on the headline's promise.
HN non-clickbait title:
> Evidence that pop music is getting sadder and angrier
Original clickbait title:
> Is pop music really getting sadder and angrier?
It needlessly formulated the title as a question to intrigue people to click it.
Writing the titles in this way serves no purpose but to waste people’s time by tricking them to click through.
I refuse to partake in the further proliferation of any article that practices this style of writing titles.
Clickbait titles need to die. The only chance we have of getting rid of them is to not give them traffic. That won’t ever happen of course, but at least we have the useful policy here on HN to shield us from being manipulated by the titles when we decide what we want to read and not.