This had clear artistic ambition and intent from the start, and it stuck the landing. Unlike a lot of people I do kinda like the I Hope remix, it’s just not well written because it was never meant to be a duet. This is how you properly carry a double-sided narrative in music, I Hope Remix featuring Charlie Puth. But they both end their choruses with “I hope you’re happy now” and it takes a very different context with each one of them. Carly said “I hope you find what you were looking for” and he says “I guess you found what you were looking for”. I love how when he gets the second hook, he changes the wording. Dude just doesn’t know what hit him and he’s left bewildered and despaired. See this song actually takes advantage of the fact that it’s a duet and offers us two distinct perspectives. It’s about a relationship that fell apart on Carly Pearce’s end, and she accepts the fact that it is what it is and wishes her ex well in his future romantic pursuits.īut Lee Brice? Not so much. It’s got these warm, vibrant guitars leading the melody and it leads well into the song’s lyrical content, which is pretty unconventional for a breakup song. Nice voice.”īut this is a duet, and a fantastic one at that. I also happen to know literally nothing about her other than I guess “she sing good. Like we got Maren Morris, Maddie & Tae, Gwen Stefani, the Trump Girl-īut yeah Carly Pearce had the best hit out of the bunch. Y’know we got a lot of country this year, so it’s nice that at least a portion of it came from women this time. Blinding Lights- The Weeknd YE Position: 1 Also Imanbek follow me on twitter please you followed like 5 of my friends just do it ok it’s so easy come on Imanbek please. And that Goosebumps remix is slowly but surely clawing its way to the top, I guess there’s that. Except maybe Breaking Me by Topic that’s a really good one. Nothing like it has touched the charts since. There’s not much besides that, but the song has everything it needs to be a catchy fun time. And turning those dark mournful vocals on the original into something you can dance to is just genius, there’s no other way to put it. He pitched it up, sure, but the original is still there. Also just so there’s no misconception, I really like the original Saint Jhn Roses as well, but creative liberties needed to be taken for this to have any chance of working.īut what Imanbek did leave unaltered from the original was the vocal melody. That way you’re not so inclined to question what’s going on, you just go along for the ride. So what did Imanbek do? The madlad just cut it out and started it on the word “roses”. The listener would’ve been like “what the hell’s goin on”. Now the original Roses does open with some sparse somber piano keys, which would’ve been very difficult to… Lithuanian bassify, if you will. Just drops you right in with the hook and you hit the ground running. One of the more noticeable things when you first hear this song is its lack of an intro. And it works for some unconventional reasons. A no-name producer from Kazakhstan took a trap song from 2016, pitched up the vocals and added some heavy bass, and it was a huge hit. And yeah, this is about as Lithuanian bass as it gets. It’s an incredible genre when it’s done right, as now you can find pretty much any popular song remixed in that style, with the bassline always going zoom zoom.” At the time everyone considered it a Brazilian Bass song, but it’s clear now that it sparked an entire new subgenre, with some of the newer songs sounding completely different from the old school Brazilian Bass songs like Fuego by Alok. “Lithuanian Bass is an EDM subgenre taking elements of Brazilian Bass, Future House and Deep House popularized by the success of Dynoro’s In My Mind.
To better explain what “Lithuanian bass” is, my friend twitter user and the man behind the term itself was kind enough to give an explanation. Of all the bizarre events that happened this year, one of the stranger ones was seeing Lithuanian bass hit the mainstream.