I usually post about the music my friends are up to and it’s almost always avant-garde or groundbreaking in some sense, but this time I want to post about the fact that all my friends who run these labels and produce this stuff spend all their time listening to Drake and Rihanna, as well as obscure pop from England, Japan, and America.
The music almost always has an influence of Lady Gaga or Dirty South rap, as well as both subtle and unsubtle uses of autotune and trance synths. Once you have found all the Circle X or Clan of Xymox records on youtube and realize that nothing is rare or edgy, the only way to feel creeped out is to listen to soulless pop music. An example of the blending would be the Tri Angle-curated Lindsay Lohan tribute that was featured on DIS magazine.
Here are a few examples:
There are better vids but I am not trying to enter the wormhole right now