From Lil Jon to ‘Rumours,’ here are the artists, albums, genres and songs that shaped how pop sounded this decade
hip-hop – not to mention Lil Nas X and the entire “Old Town Road” phenomenon – sparked a greater conversation about history being reclaimed through fashion and music.Dancehall-pop has been around for quite some time, most notably heard in popular songs from Shaggy and No Doubt over the late-Nineties, early-Aughts. Around 2016, however, dancehall had re-emerged on the pop charts in a huge way.
As a term, EDM was always a better corporate buzzword than a useful way to describe the music that forced a full pop recalibration at the start of the 2010s. But while “EDM” undermined the vast sonic range of a moment that encompassed everything from Skrillex’s devastating dubstep to Avicii’s euphoric house pop, there was one unifying sonic signature: The Drop.
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