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you don't know how many times I've been in the studio after having success on TikTok that I've heard "THIS WILL BLOW UP ON TIKTOK" its sad man. I love tiktok and I'm thankful for what its done for me. but its weird what its doing to the quality of music and what people think people will find "catchy for tiktok" I didn't even know it existed before finding out falling went viral. I didn't pay anything but people are def paying for that shit. edit: thanks for the shout out!
it’s so sad to see the transition from artists really caring about and loving their music to just making potential “tiktok” songs purely for charts and to get a hit.
It's been like that since the beginning of western music, there was a lot of generic music being created during the baroque and clascicism just to appeal to the courts. There will always be artists pursuing money/clout and artists that just do their thing
@@artofstorytelling9406 Actually, it's been like that since the beginning of music, or even every art form. This is why all art from a certain period in a certain place look the same, people tried to make a name for themselves by copying the "ingredients of success" for millenia. But at least, a certain way of making art was dedicated to 1 place (for example the special djembé technique used by my ancestors in Mali) but now, with all these dvices connecting people from all around the world, music is similar everywhere (now they use 808's in malian music lol). It reduced diversity but makes the mainstream art form "superiour" since it takes the best from all genres and countries.
bro i started listening to gasp, guardin, convolk, and the rest of the crew right as they started to blow up. it sucks that shini and jakky still are relatively unknown tho:( jakkys literally top 3 artist for me
Tiktok has shaped my taste in music as well. When I hear a song I like that got popular on tiktok I immediately distance myself from it and never play it again.
i had the app for a month. i realized there are songs that are “popular” on tik tok that i actually like, but seeing some skinny white kid named ryan bite his lip to it really ruins the music. that’s why i deleted the app, and never looked back. you should do the same, the app is nothing but toxic
To this day I’ve never liked tik tok but finally downloaded just for the vine aspect of it and some of the videos bring funny. Other than that the app is for children and it’s extremely cringe I don’t get how people make videos dancing and thinking it’s cool like no you look like a clown
@@saucysesa3563 that's bcs ur on straight tiktok look up topics that interest u or ask ur friends for actually funny ppl after a while u wont see all that dancing shit
That's a you problem... When Flatbed Freestyle got popular on TikTok all the carti fans said they ruined the song, but I still listen to it with no problem.
I feel like tik tok is great for exposing people to new artists and their music, but the drawback is the over saturation of someone's music especially if it goes viral. These songs or artists that people like will get old fast, and while artists may get the initial exposure there streams will die down fast, and there fake and quick listeners will become apparent and these artists will have no real fan base, granted I have not watched the video yet.
you do have a point and it is actually totally real, but i think they could work to actually make everyone real fans? I think its not necessarily bad blowing up out of nowhere but what is the turning point is if they actually do something about it or just enjoy the high and not think about it long term.
@@Italian_EXE Yeah the point i was making, was that tiktokss music influence can come off as a double esged sword depending on the goal or longevity of a artist
Well, it's happened to Lil Nas X and Rich Brian actually. They came from just a guy who always make meme on internet to be a music superstar on instant way. And we know now Lil Nas start to fall off and Brian still searching his own style. From what i see, i think these viral artist must be able to find their own musical style as soon as possible after their song going viral and maybe try not to recycle their work over and over again so people not get bored. Im agree with you some instant hit wil get die quick, especially in tiktok when they're just use only 10-15% of the songs. So as a platform tik tok is doing good job for promoting a song or even an artist, but unfortunately tik tok wasn't made to get real fans.
exactly!! i hate when i listen to songs i found in tik tok and the older fans are like “tiK ToK rUiNs sOnGs” like no, it just exposes those songs to a larger audience which is great for the artist
Blanket thank you :) i respect your opinion too. and honestly, with how stans are nowadays, i understand where you’re coming from :) i just think tik tok has introduced me to some great songs, not the fan bases themselves yknow
mankos dream the transition from The Box being my favorite song since its release to not being able to listen to it in public cz some random kid will do a random dance was one of the saddest things i ever saw, same with whats poppin, blueberry faygo, etc. Yk, it hits different when you discover a song on its release date rather than on tiktok itself (yes bro, i promise i discovered whats poppin 35 minutes after its release on the lyrical lemonade channel)z
I watched FilthyFrank, then stopped and started listening to Joji this year, even though I knew he always existed. Disappointed that his ABSOLUTE BOPS are known as "Tiktok songs". Joji poured his heart into his songs and that's what they're known as.
yea that's what im scared of man, i always wanted to be a rapper even since i was 7 but im scared if i put all my heart and soul into the music im makin it'll just be a tiktok song and that's all i'll ever be just known for, that dude who made that one tiktok song
Squelar lemme guess, you’re the kind of person who still uses the word snowflake in 2020 and you think it’s edgy to randomly say rude shit making fun of people’s ethnicities just so you can “watch people get triggered”. (I would use the word racist but sadly that terms been watered down and getting called one is probably what gets people like you off)
I've noticed on a few of your videos that you'll just randomly repeat sentences; 6:04 you said something and then repeated the same thing. I don't know if this is an editing problem or something (and it's not a big deal either) but it kinda makes the flow of the vid awkward. This happened on your "Travis Scott: Making of Astroworld" video as well. Just pointing it out, keep up the good work :)
Yeah I second this. Love your content so it's no big deal to us but might be annoying to a broader audience? He's probably just comping different takes and forgetting to omit the on he decides not to use
I really feel like it’s really squashing creativity. It’s gonna become songs with shorter runtimes, algorithm based lyrics (so anything trendy or nonsensical rather than meaningful). And hey, I’m all for nonsensical music. I love it! But I fear that the artistic part of it is going to start fading away more and more.
Can you explain why it’s depressing though in my opinion discovering underground artists that would have never gotten exposure if not for tik tok is a good thing.
It doesn't take TikTok to be a superstar, but many artists think it is. Look at Bad Bunny. At least, for me, I knew who he was in 2016 with Diles and Soy Peor, and within 1 year, from June 2016-June 2017, the man made at least 10 hits (feature or not), instant classic in Spanish trap. I still remember me searching up Bad Bunny on Google Images, not one photo of him. Now look at him. Just follow your passion, be good at it, be unique at it, and having a small loyal fanbase is better than millions of fake fans
This is mind blowing. I always wondered how this music industry connection was being impacted by the app. I have to admit, since I'm a dinosaur millennial I didn't realize how MASSIVE Tik Tok has gotten (90k+ for a post?? Good lord!). Those viewership numbers are astronomical! Keep up the great journalism Volkgeist :)
I have a band called Destructo Disk and we had two songs go viral on tik tok this year. We went from like 10,000 monthly listeners to over 100,000. The shit is whacky. We don’t even use tik tok.
I feel bad whenever someone says Tiktok is going to ruin this or that song, but I’m am really grateful that it got me into so many songs, whether it was a remix or an original. There’s old songs from Mary J. Blige that i never heard of, I would now be listening to on repeat. It’s when songs get overplayed even on the radio, where people can easily lose interest
I remember when Playdate was trending, I've been a cry baby for a long time so I was quite happy that Melanie was getting a little more attention, but I'd be lying if the TikTok trend didn't almost ruin the love I had for it for me, it was so extremely overused. Once a friend of mine posted a picture with a quote from Show and Tell and I replied with the next verse, she replied with "sorry". I guess it was because the verse had a bad word and stuff, I kinda felt bad because I thought that she had actually listened to the song but which hadn't, but since it was a fitting aesthetic to her picture she used it. And that's ok, a lot of people do that. She now listens to her I guess since she recently posted a picture of another k-12 song on her story, so I am happy there's one more fan, I'm not gonna gatekeep the music I love, no one should, but it does hurt to see people who are actually talented whose song or art being used just because it's trendy or aesthetic, especially if they don't even listen to the whole song or know anything about the piece.
In india there is a term for the people who specifically make a song with a catchy music and a catchy phrase. They are called tiktok singers. And their specific catchy phrase is only famous. If you listen to whole song then you won't find it that good.
You can't say Arizonas success is "all because of tik tok". Homie had been grinding for Years. Grinding to hone his skill, to meet who he's met, etc. It took all that grinding to even get to a tik tok song for him so don't give all the credit to tok tok.
this predates TikTok though, just look at what happened to MGMG with Kids and Electric Feel. They basically had to turn their back on their whole fanbase
A corny Tiktok dance helped Drake's terrible ass song toosie slide get to #1 And it's not the first time he has relied on social media to get a hit record - Hello 'In My Feelings'
Kinda sucks that artists are making songs with the sole intent for it to go viral on TikTok. I feel like they should focus on the actual music rather than the marketability.
I think people would call old town road something. Like lit. Nobody calls that fucking song inspiring and no I'm not homophobic. Nobody gives a shit about anyone's background as long as they can or have said the n word or are post malone
Sooo glad you talked about brakence, been bumping him for a while and he's so good, seen people say he's sort of a "trap EDEN" which I fully agree with
Seems like a sick app but it's ties to the CCP and privacy issues prevent me from using it, but I will say it is fascinating to see how much songs blow up simply due to TikTok now.
Dude, you need to chill on your US-centric reasoning. Musical.ly did crazy well in South American and East Asian markets. It’s American market was just a side-product from that success. The company saw its potential and the small market in the US was proof that the platform was successful but the content wasn’t tuned right. Tik Tok is not even the same as musically, it’s the same format but musical.ly was built entirely around algorithms that found your music taste and exploited that. TikTok is finding your interests in general and exploit that. You need to look up more and different sources my guy, this is sloppy research.
The strangest part of Tik Tok to me is the influencers on the platform that solely exist to just make up catchy dances for other peoples songs and they somehow convince big wig corporate guys to pay them huge amounts of money for their so called "value" that i guess exists on the platform... its really so interesting and strange to me.....
when a song gets popular on tiktok, no one (tiktokers) ever talks about the song's meaning, they only recognize the song for what it trended for and refer to it as a tik tok song, or they only listen to the brief section of the song that was popular on the app and say that its the only good part. its kinda frustrating
I can't believe that even happens like that... I also can't believe that some people will stop listening to a song because they can't separate it from Tik Tok... I guess I should thank God I don't have this problem...
Doja cat was my little secret before Tik tok got her famous with say so. It’s ok tho, nobody believes me 😞 listening to her for 6-7 years even got my friends into her. So happy for her, I wish the same for every artist that I listen too.
It's an amazing feeling to find a great artist from a viral song. Yet it's much more depressing when you look through the rest of a one-hit-wonder's music and find music that just doesn't feel the same, it happened to Lil Nax X, Arizona Zervas, and many others.
Tik tok made me have a new taste in music. I stayed far away from the songs that got popular on their. And got into the hidden gems. Unfortunately Dirty Harry got popular (the song by gorillaz) but thankfully they didn't get the other ones so I'm good.
i dont have tiktok or spotify, and i still find artists that are super underground. i was recomended tiera whack back in 2018 way before she blew up on tiktok and when her video only had like 20k views (a lot, nbut not "blown up"). i find artists with 500 views bc the algorithm on youtube for this channel i had since i was 12 knew i like to listen to music and most importantly, i INTERACT with music i like. plus, ad revenue goes to the artist 80% of the time. use youtube guys.
Not even gonna lie I knew about old town road before it got huge, and lil nas x had other music that he deleted off of RUclips and other platforms, because the songs had cussing and weren’t anything like his music after it blew up.
Tik tok has made me dislike music I used to like, Sometimes I'll hear a song on Tik Tok that I loved being used by hundreds, maybe thousands of people, and it will make me go from loving that song to hating it wuickly.
16:12, i agree, but i don't like the way he worded it. You should post genuinely because you actually enjoy and like the content you put out there. Don't put out content just to blow up and get clout. The fun part is doing it and the reward is getting the audience. You wouldn't be discouraged if you went it with that mindset.
Without rappers they would be nothing literally nothing and I hope they all know that because all they do is a lil dance with whoever’s music they choose to play behind it and get paid like nah if I saw someone using my song behind they dance and getting paid they splitting the check simple as that
Idk saying new school is great is giving it too much credit that it doesn’t deserve. New school is the reason I stopped listening to rap/hip hop altogether.
jesus christ i hate that fucking app, their point isn't even making art for the love of it, there's a difference between wanting to reach an audience and find your people and just putting together 3 beats to get viral and be comfortable in a little capitalist complex i hate it here
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Volksgeist baby keem next? Suicide boys? Ramirez?
Volksgeist spm?
You say the same thing twice 6:05 and 6:20
hey volky, could you start putting the nebula link in the youtube description? i got a subscription a while ago but i still use youtube for other creators mainly, but everytime i see a nebula creator's video, it's a pain in the ass to go find the nebula video
Yes!
you don't know how many times I've been in the studio after having success on TikTok that I've heard "THIS WILL BLOW UP ON TIKTOK" its sad man. I love tiktok and I'm thankful for what its done for me. but its weird what its doing to the quality of music and what people think people will find "catchy for tiktok" I didn't even know it existed before finding out falling went viral. I didn't pay anything but people are def paying for that shit.
edit: thanks for the shout out!
who are you
@@Pr0d3gi bruh havent you heard falling? damn
omg you're fire
OMG! TREVOR YOU FEEL THAT WAY TOO!!! Glad there are some artist with some sense
You're spectacular.
it’s so sad to see the transition from artists really caring about and loving their music to just making potential “tiktok” songs purely for charts and to get a hit.
It's been like that since the beginning of western music, there was a lot of generic music being created during the baroque and clascicism just to appeal to the courts. There will always be artists pursuing money/clout and artists that just do their thing
Art Of Storytelling yup
:(
@@artofstorytelling9406 Actually, it's been like that since the beginning of music, or even every art form. This is why all art from a certain period in a certain place look the same, people tried to make a name for themselves by copying the "ingredients of success" for millenia. But at least, a certain way of making art was dedicated to 1 place (for example the special djembé technique used by my ancestors in Mali) but now, with all these dvices connecting people from all around the world, music is similar everywhere (now they use 808's in malian music lol). It reduced diversity but makes the mainstream art form "superiour" since it takes the best from all genres and countries.
Drake
One of the most important pieces of music journalism this year. Never had this channel bore me with a video.
Thank you very much!
Too bad for me. I mostly just come to youtube to get bored. Bein interested and having fun is for wussies
@@EclecticoIconoclasta LMAO
the fact you put gaspare as the thumbnail is incredible
savage ga$p**
aiden bruh gaspare is right to bro
Dad?
BRUH THATS WHAT IM SAYING
bro i started listening to gasp, guardin, convolk, and the rest of the crew right as they started to blow up. it sucks that shini and jakky still are relatively unknown tho:( jakkys literally top 3 artist for me
Tiktok has shaped my taste in music as well. When I hear a song I like that got popular on tiktok I immediately distance myself from it and never play it again.
it just makes it feel so shallow
i had the app for a month. i realized there are songs that are “popular” on tik tok that i actually like, but seeing some skinny white kid named ryan bite his lip to it really ruins the music. that’s why i deleted the app, and never looked back. you should do the same, the app is nothing but toxic
To this day I’ve never liked tik tok but finally downloaded just for the vine aspect of it and some of the videos bring funny. Other than that the app is for children and it’s extremely cringe I don’t get how people make videos dancing and thinking it’s cool like no you look like a clown
@@saucysesa3563 that's bcs ur on straight tiktok look up topics that interest u or ask ur friends for actually funny ppl after a while u wont see all that dancing shit
That's a you problem... When Flatbed Freestyle got popular on TikTok all the carti fans said they ruined the song, but I still listen to it with no problem.
I feel like tik tok is great for exposing people to new artists and their music, but the drawback is the over saturation of someone's music especially if it goes viral. These songs or artists that people like will get old fast, and while artists may get the initial exposure there streams will die down fast, and there fake and quick listeners will become apparent and these artists will have no real fan base, granted I have not watched the video yet.
you do have a point and it is actually totally real, but i think they could work to actually make everyone real fans? I think its not necessarily bad blowing up out of nowhere but what is the turning point is if they actually do something about it or just enjoy the high and not think about it long term.
@@Italian_EXE Yeah the point i was making, was that tiktokss music influence can come off as a double esged sword depending on the goal or longevity of a artist
Well, it's happened to Lil Nas X and Rich Brian actually. They came from just a guy who always make meme on internet to be a music superstar on instant way. And we know now Lil Nas start to fall off and Brian still searching his own style. From what i see, i think these viral artist must be able to find their own musical style as soon as possible after their song going viral and maybe try not to recycle their work over and over again so people not get bored.
Im agree with you some instant hit wil get die quick, especially in tiktok when they're just use only 10-15% of the songs. So as a platform tik tok is doing good job for promoting a song or even an artist, but unfortunately tik tok wasn't made to get real fans.
@@never100x exactly. for example doja cat is a long term success story
Black Dresses took their stuff off music services because kids on Tik Tok didn't understand the meaning of the song.
Wait what song was it ?
That sucks there pretty good band especially the new album
What song did they disrespect?
That's stupid many I can buy a album from them
what was it about
Tootsie slide is drakes worst song and he made it specifically for tik tok.
Yep. lol
same with yummy by jb
He just jumps on stupid trends...reason why i dont like him.
Is Savage love by drake too if it is count that in
@@xpertg5570 He's a businnesman not an artist
As much as i don't like titkok i thank it for exposing me to dope tracks i've never heard before
hell yeah!
exactly!! i hate when i listen to songs i found in tik tok and the older fans are like “tiK ToK rUiNs sOnGs” like no, it just exposes those songs to a larger audience which is great for the artist
mankos dream i disagree, but respect your opinion bro
Blanket thank you :) i respect your opinion too. and honestly, with how stans are nowadays, i understand where you’re coming from :) i just think tik tok has introduced me to some great songs, not the fan bases themselves yknow
mankos dream the transition from The Box being my favorite song since its release to not being able to listen to it in public cz some random kid will do a random dance was one of the saddest things i ever saw, same with whats poppin, blueberry faygo, etc. Yk, it hits different when you discover a song on its release date rather than on tiktok itself (yes bro, i promise i discovered whats poppin 35 minutes after its release on the lyrical lemonade channel)z
YT is gonna die because of copyright
True true
Ha. Bet.
i feel like it wont die especially with this big of followings
TWITCH will
I watched FilthyFrank, then stopped and started listening to Joji this year, even though I knew he always existed. Disappointed that his ABSOLUTE BOPS are known as "Tiktok songs". Joji poured his heart into his songs and that's what they're known as.
Same over here. It's very disappointing.
yea that's what im scared of man, i always wanted to be a rapper even since i was 7 but im scared if i put all my heart and soul into the music im makin it'll just be a tiktok song and that's all i'll ever be just known for, that dude who made that one tiktok song
"we live in a capitalist nightmare, and nothing is free" is when I smashed like
CAPITALISM BAD
@@personontheinternet2164 based
im so smart for my age i think capitalism suuucks i support communism because equality and stuff!!!11!1!
Squelar lemme guess, you’re the kind of person who still uses the word snowflake in 2020 and you think it’s edgy to randomly say rude shit making fun of people’s ethnicities just so you can “watch people get triggered”. (I would use the word racist but sadly that terms been watered down and getting called one is probably what gets people like you off)
@@midnightvampire8406 😳
I've noticed on a few of your videos that you'll just randomly repeat sentences; 6:04 you said something and then repeated the same thing. I don't know if this is an editing problem or something (and it's not a big deal either) but it kinda makes the flow of the vid awkward. This happened on your "Travis Scott: Making of Astroworld" video as well. Just pointing it out, keep up the good work :)
Yeah I second this. Love your content so it's no big deal to us but might be annoying to a broader audience? He's probably just comping different takes and forgetting to omit the on he decides not to use
Same with the thugger video
III III what?
repetition legitimizes
repetition legitimizes
I really feel like it’s really squashing creativity. It’s gonna become songs with shorter runtimes, algorithm based lyrics (so anything trendy or nonsensical rather than meaningful). And hey, I’m all for nonsensical music. I love it! But I fear that the artistic part of it is going to start fading away more and more.
god this is so depressing
I’ve been on a depressing exposes of capitalism binge this afternoon. It just hurts to see how big companies have made everything so crushing.
I mostly only listen to Indie music now because of this.
Can you explain why it’s depressing though in my opinion discovering underground artists that would have never gotten exposure if not for tik tok is a good thing.
@@jacksonsimpson344 yea exactly like whats so bad about artists being able to blow up their platforms easier?
@@drpingpongs2593 China that's all I gotta say man. Behind those lovable teen icons looms the thread of a totalitarian government.
brakence is a great artist. been aware of him for a while now
yeah great that he got a shoutout here
so talented, been hooked since 2018
He is sooo underrated
I love brakence!
Went to high school with him lmao
DEAR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS: USE HASHTAGS!!! TAG PEOPLE LIKE ANTHONY FANTANO OR OTHER MUSIC NERDS
redveil is sweating
tagging anthony fantano would make you seem so desperate, idk if its a great idea lol
dont
lmao no he's gonna get annoyed
____dotdotdot... the purpose isn’t for him to see, it’s for people who look at what he’s tagged in to find
Tiktok is LITERALLY running the music industry now. It’s the new radio 📻
Couldn't agree more
Its really not. Music industry is gonna be fine
@@jordyjohnathan5123 care to elaborate? 🤔
@@nameisamine you said it yourself. Tiktok is the new radio. Well, if the radio couldn't kill the music industry then tiktok isnt going to either.
I guess “Video Killed the Radio Star” is accurate.
Man * shiloh dynasty* was the real G.O.A.T
nah, brakence still better
@@coajdka nah. Shiloh walked so breakence could run
@@kingj6677 same thing with future and uzi, but sometimes the student gets better than the teacher
Lol You guys are gay
@@blaker4807 music scary!
him: "no one is going to replicate the success of Old Town Road any time soon"
olivia rodrigo: "hold my beer"
Tokyo's Revenge went to my highschool. I remember my friend showing me his song before it blew up
My homie Bryan used to dm him on insta a lot before he blew up.
It doesn't take TikTok to be a superstar, but many artists think it is. Look at Bad Bunny. At least, for me, I knew who he was in 2016 with Diles and Soy Peor, and within 1 year, from June 2016-June 2017, the man made at least 10 hits (feature or not), instant classic in Spanish trap. I still remember me searching up Bad Bunny on Google Images, not one photo of him. Now look at him. Just follow your passion, be good at it, be unique at it, and having a small loyal fanbase is better than millions of fake fans
This is mind blowing. I always wondered how this music industry connection was being impacted by the app. I have to admit, since I'm a dinosaur millennial I didn't realize how MASSIVE Tik Tok has gotten (90k+ for a post?? Good lord!). Those viewership numbers are astronomical! Keep up the great journalism Volkgeist :)
Because Tiktok has larger active audience.
I have a band called Destructo Disk and we had two songs go viral on tik tok this year. We went from like 10,000 monthly listeners to over 100,000. The shit is whacky. We don’t even use tik tok.
Your music's awesome btw!
We need an understanding 070 shake. I feel like he’d body that video
Ben Sachs Volksgeist is a guy
Childish Creator ok??
@@julianp7013 ok??
Marcellium someone commented to that person correcting them that they should’ve said “she’d” instead of “he’d” but they deleted it
Childish Creator oh bro my bad
what a strange time we're living in
I feel bad whenever someone says Tiktok is going to ruin this or that song, but I’m am really grateful that it got me into so many songs, whether it was a remix or an original. There’s old songs from Mary J. Blige that i never heard of, I would now be listening to on repeat. It’s when songs get overplayed even on the radio, where people can easily lose interest
I remember when Playdate was trending, I've been a cry baby for a long time so I was quite happy that Melanie was getting a little more attention, but I'd be lying if the TikTok trend didn't almost ruin the love I had for it for me, it was so extremely overused.
Once a friend of mine posted a picture with a quote from Show and Tell and I replied with the next verse, she replied with "sorry".
I guess it was because the verse had a bad word and stuff, I kinda felt bad because I thought that she had actually listened to the song but which hadn't, but since it was a fitting aesthetic to her picture she used it. And that's ok, a lot of people do that.
She now listens to her I guess since she recently posted a picture of another k-12 song on her story, so I am happy there's one more fan, I'm not gonna gatekeep the music I love, no one should, but it does hurt to see people who are actually talented whose song or art being used just because it's trendy or aesthetic, especially if they don't even listen to the whole song or know anything about the piece.
so agree
In india there is a term for the people who specifically make a song with a catchy music and a catchy phrase. They are called tiktok singers. And their specific catchy phrase is only famous. If you listen to whole song then you won't find it that good.
Similar thing in South Africa
& this too shall die someday. So kids, be a true artist. Cause when the hypes done its done.
Yoo!! Rolling stone?? That’s so cool :)) I’m rlly proud of you and ur videos are always such a blessing!! Keep doing what ur doing man! Thank you :)
They are out there just "dancing/lip syncing" every week getting as much as some people yearly
tikkity tokkity, your song is my property.
I’m SOO glad that you love brakence.
he's next up for sure
@@Volksgeist fr
@@ddontsleepp5123 broooooooo have y'all never heard of eden
@@regulus69 EDEN is an underrated legend, argue w me
@@shibuya9062 i'm not arguing with you cuz he's my favorite artist of all time lat's gooooooooo
How does this guy not have over a million subs? The effort in these videos is a lot.
No one appreciates quality content...
Everyone is too busy on TikTok
Ikr it makes me furious
You can't say Arizonas success is "all because of tik tok". Homie had been grinding for Years. Grinding to hone his skill, to meet who he's met, etc. It took all that grinding to even get to a tik tok song for him so don't give all the credit to tok tok.
Yeah I have heard of his music before the tiktoks
he’s made good music before but tiktok really took him to the next level
He's trash
I've no doubt old town road woulda reached number one but in a time without internet it woulda disappeared long before it did.
Can we get an “understanding Pop Smoke”???
Yes please
for what
Ah yes "we all live in a capitalist nightmare" thank you for that insight
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Yes
Volksgeist the problem between artist and record labels
I would love to see a video about King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Injury reserve
Understanding Isaiah Rashad pls
I love your editing and everything about you
thanks king
Volksgeist no thank you for the grate vids
I came for savage gasp and he wasn’t even mentioned :( still a good video
Fr?
Same lol
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So it’s just one hit wonders on loop?
everything on titkok now is planned and advertisement...that is so corrupt and depressing
3:18 I dont think TikTok was the main reason Doja Cat's song reached #1 on Billboard
every girl and their dog were doing the dance for WEEKS! say you’re joking right now
A video about Gesaffelstein maybe?
this predates TikTok though, just look at what happened to MGMG with Kids and Electric Feel. They basically had to turn their back on their whole fanbase
What happened??
Love the thumbnail
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If u blow up on tiktok ur more likely to be a one hit wonder in my eyes most them are just there to listen to song and gone go with some other rapper
A corny Tiktok dance helped Drake's terrible ass song toosie slide get to #1
And it's not the first time he has relied on social media to get a hit record - Hello 'In My Feelings'
Only good thing tik tok has done is introduce my little sister to some classics lmao
Rapper: remember lil bro laying in the dirt now i drop a tear on every single verse
TikTok mf:🙋🏻♀️🙆🏻♀️🙅♀️💁♀️
I can’t believe u said musically had a small fanbase that was my entire middle school
6:00 - 6:30 did u mean to say the same thing twice ?
Your voice is perfect for journaling videos like these and the editing is great! 👌☺️
I literally found Brakence last night and now he's in this video, what are the chances.
Kinda sucks that artists are making songs with the sole intent for it to go viral on TikTok. I feel like they should focus on the actual music rather than the marketability.
Yeah I agree. A lot of already established musicians try to cheat their way through too. Like drake’s tossie slide, which was terrible imo🤦🏾♀️
Money Maker1 but yet has almost 500M streams on Spotify, Drake at this point is just making music for fun
Carlos Jaquez yeah, I wish he’d put a bit more effort into it, make something worth listening to
Carlos Jaquez tossie slide was very clearly only made to be trendy on TikTok and to make drake a lot of money
Ben Davis Exactly he wanted to make the bag $$ with tik tok and he did it
Tik tok ruins songs and changes their meanings
I think people would call old town road something. Like lit. Nobody calls that fucking song inspiring and no I'm not homophobic. Nobody gives a shit about anyone's background as long as they can or have said the n word or are post malone
Can u please do a “understanding polo g” he is one of my favorite artists in music rn
polo g sick
Sooo glad you talked about brakence, been bumping him for a while and he's so good, seen people say he's sort of a "trap EDEN" which I fully agree with
I feel like the only reason Billie eilish came on tiktok was to promote her new song ‘therefore I am’
yeah, the chorus is the strongest part of it. Perfect for a 10 sec tiktok video. But the rest of it is lacking
Also, I think Brakence being in the Hyperpop Spotify playlist might have given a big boost.
I hate it when people say *who else came from TikTok* like bruh shut up
Seems like a sick app but it's ties to the CCP and privacy issues prevent me from using it, but I will say it is fascinating to see how much songs blow up simply due to TikTok now.
My soul hurt a little when you called Lil Nas X Nas.
*Lil Nas X - “Illmatic”*
Dude, you need to chill on your US-centric reasoning. Musical.ly did crazy well in South American and East Asian markets. It’s American market was just a side-product from that success. The company saw its potential and the small market in the US was proof that the platform was successful but the content wasn’t tuned right.
Tik Tok is not even the same as musically, it’s the same format but musical.ly was built entirely around algorithms that found your music taste and exploited that. TikTok is finding your interests in general and exploit that.
You need to look up more and different sources my guy, this is sloppy research.
The strangest part of Tik Tok to me is the influencers on the platform that solely exist to just make up catchy dances for other peoples songs and they somehow convince big wig corporate guys to pay them huge amounts of money for their so called "value" that i guess exists on the platform... its really so interesting and strange to me.....
Still haven’t downloaded tik tok😜
You need atleast to give it a try . I was once like you before ..Trust me Tiktok is pretty entertaining.
congrats!!!!
Lol still as dumb so...
I have but I keep uninstalling it and reinstalling it lol
“As the world population increases records are gonna continue to be broken”- me
11:15 him: "the cool thing about tiktok is that the audience is really good at kinda figuring out what's real and what's not"
Every tiktok guitarist:…
at 6 min you repeat yourself on a complex sentence
why all know Lil nas x... well I think Im way too old for this channel. 34 yo.. wtf :D haha
the political side of tiktok is very bad, that's one part I don't like as much from tikok.
06:08 - 06:32 I thought I was having a stroke
Great as always! But sidenote: can you link the 2 songs you used in this video, the jazz piece at 1:50 and the japanese ambient one at 6:00
Thank you!
im gonna put my comment here so I can get notified if anyone sends the link aswell
when a song gets popular on tiktok, no one (tiktokers) ever talks about the song's meaning, they only recognize the song for what it trended for and refer to it as a tik tok song, or they only listen to the brief section of the song that was popular on the app and say that its the only good part. its kinda frustrating
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I can't believe that even happens like that...
I also can't believe that some people will stop listening to a song because they can't separate it from Tik Tok...
I guess I should thank God I don't have this problem...
Doja cat was my little secret before Tik tok got her famous with say so. It’s ok tho, nobody believes me 😞 listening to her for 6-7 years even got my friends into her. So happy for her, I wish the same for every artist that I listen too.
I hate that when I listen to Out West I think of all the Tik Tokers. It’s such a good song and they massacred it!!😭
I hate to say this but...
They used DaBaby - ROCKSTAR ft.Roddy Ricch which was made for stopping racism but these Tik Tokers have ruined everything
Lil nas, doja and megan are really the only people who have really progressed their careers after blowing up on tiktok
It's an amazing feeling to find a great artist from a viral song. Yet it's much more depressing when you look through the rest of a one-hit-wonder's music and find music that just doesn't feel the same, it happened to Lil Nax X, Arizona Zervas, and many others.
Tik tok made me have a new taste in music. I stayed far away from the songs that got popular on their. And got into the hidden gems. Unfortunately Dirty Harry got popular (the song by gorillaz) but thankfully they didn't get the other ones so I'm good.
i dont have tiktok or spotify, and i still find artists that are super underground. i was recomended tiera whack back in 2018 way before she blew up on tiktok and when her video only had like 20k views (a lot, nbut not "blown up"). i find artists with 500 views bc the algorithm on youtube for this channel i had since i was 12 knew i like to listen to music and most importantly, i INTERACT with music i like. plus, ad revenue goes to the artist 80% of the time. use youtube guys.
Not even gonna lie I knew about old town road before it got huge, and lil nas x had other music that he deleted off of RUclips and other platforms, because the songs had cussing and weren’t anything like his music after it blew up.
Tik tok has made me dislike music I used to like, Sometimes I'll hear a song on Tik Tok that I loved being used by hundreds, maybe thousands of people, and it will make me go from loving that song to hating it wuickly.
I still don’t forgive TikTok for ruining my favorite songs
So these people (can’t call them musicians nevermind artists) are just making jingles!
Finally someone who agrees with me
16:12, i agree, but i don't like the way he worded it. You should post genuinely because you actually enjoy and like the content you put out there. Don't put out content just to blow up and get clout. The fun part is doing it and the reward is getting the audience. You wouldn't be discouraged if you went it with that mindset.
Isn’t blinding lights record breaking now or am I trippin?
Am I the only person who finds TikTok annoying AF?!!
If only people stop consuming tiktok videos then maybe tiktok won't last long
i was a fan of bbno$ before tiktok and lalala, just wanted to say that somewhere
Without rappers they would be nothing literally nothing and I hope they all know that because all they do is a lil dance with whoever’s music they choose to play behind it and get paid like nah if I saw someone using my song behind they dance and getting paid they splitting the check simple as that
What happened to old school music I really miss them don't get me wrong new school is great but they just don't hit the same
Idk saying new school is great is giving it too much credit that it doesn’t deserve. New school is the reason I stopped listening to rap/hip hop altogether.
jesus christ i hate that fucking app, their point isn't even making art for the love of it, there's a difference between wanting to reach an audience and find your people and just putting together 3 beats to get viral and be comfortable in a little capitalist complex
i hate it here
Not to mention the massive amounts of
c r i n g e .
I like old town road, and I really dislike tiktok. That being said they are both grossly overrated.
"No one is going to beat Lil Nas Old Town Road anytime soon" wap is typing...
That’s not the same. Cardi and Megan were already famous before the song dropped
Bruh wap is shit
No correlation at all
Of course its the tiktok girl