I enjoyed today’s class of talking about beats and hearing them in different songs, both old and new. The PostmodermJukebox people are also really interesting! It was cool to hear them apply the swing beat into songs we listen to today, and they still sound good! The part I didn’t like was when we played Meghan Trainor (I really hate her). I agree with Professor O’Malley’s point of hearing a different kind of music when the song was played with the swing beat and how it made some of them better, like the Womanizer song. The past is present in many ways in music and it’s cool to hear that.
The Justin Bieber song we heard (Cold Water) and then the Sia song (Cheap Thrills) are some of my favorites and it’s so cool we could apply that havanero beat into it and hear it. It may be a pop song, but it has so many different layers you can peel apart and listen to how it is influenced by different genres.