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A deep dive into the major trends and innovations in popular music during the 2010s as streaming dominated, genres collapsed and music underwent a profound...

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♪ im the bad guy ♪ duh with billie eilish, you feel as if shes whispering right in your ear, and that intimacy in the age when social media overtook everything, that tangibility of the voice is kind of part of the point. ♪ you really know how to make me cry ♪ ♪ when you give me those ocean eyes ♪ ♪ im scared [finneas] billies voice is my favorite voice. every time billie says anything in a song, i believe it. and thats, to me, the mark of, like, a really, like, genius vocalist. ♪...

Dictating whats going to catch on with radio programmers and the industry. >> before the label would pound you over the head with the song. now, not only does the label not choose the song, fans pluck songs out of obscurity. ♪ friday, friday ♪ >> so then you have the one offs. you have "friday" and guo yea releases "somebody that i used to know." ♪ now youre just somebody that i used to know. ♪ >> you have "we are young" by the group fun. ♪ tonight ♪ ♪ we are young ♪ >> and also ...

[chris] so then you have the one-offs. you have rebecca blacks friday. and gotye releases this lovelorn ballad, somebody that i used to know. ♪ now youre just somebody that i used to know ♪ [chris] you have we are young by the group fun. ♪ tonight ♪ we are young and also, call me maybe , by carly rae jepsen. ♪ hey, i just met you ♪ and this is crazy ♪ but heres my number ♪ so call me maybe [jayson] we werent fully in itunes or cd or into spotify yet, and youtube was still a massi...

[theme music] when you wanna listen to a song today, you dont have to buy a copy or even download it anymore. increasingly you stream it, and that has led to a profound shift in the industry that is disrupting how music is made, distributed, consumed, and how artists can make a living. [stephen] at the beginning of the decade, the music industry had functionally collapsed. piracy had destroyed it. it was possible to believe that in 10 years, the music industry might not exist at all. they were s...

Im hearing about a nightmare. [finneas] if theres any reason why it got dark, it was like, you know, turn on any screen. it was like the cultural awareness of everythings not going great. ♪ i only call you when its ♪ half past five ♪ the only time that ill be by your side ♪ [jayson] by 2016, with a song like the hills, the weeknd is a huge pop star, and he hasnt changed anything. weve just caught up to his despairing vision of... i mean, essentially all of life. ♪ mask on, ye, [bleep] ...

[theme music] at midnight last night, beyoncé dropped a surprise visual album simply titled beyoncé, and nobody saw it coming. so you can call me a hater-- wait a minute! wait, im sorry. i think beyoncé just released an album on itunes. what!? oh my god! theres more than 14 videos! the queen is back. bow down. [hanif] the first time i felt really overwhelmed by an album just appearing was beyoncés beyoncé album. i go to bed, and i wake up, and theres the album. and not only album, but there...

[shutters clicking] [reporters shouting "lorde!"] [este] in the 2010s, if you bought a mac, you had garageband. you could start making music that sounded good. and then you put the song on soundcloud or on youtube, and then it gets all this traction. ♪ ive never seen a diamond in the flesh ♪ [puja] when lorde dropped royals on soundcloud, it felt like this subversive jab that paralleled the mission of the song, which is that not everything belongs in this glossy package. ♪ but every song i...