Not sure if it's fair to say Drake was "ridiculed" for Hotline Bling. His dance moves were intentionally cheesy, which adds to the video's memorability. The video is one of the most culturally impactful music videos in recent memory (remember when Donald Trump himself starred in an SNL parody of the video?)
I checked what this is and apparently it's not my scene at all. There are hundreds of videos with stupid dancing moves every year, no idea why this would be anything special. My question is more why his heating doesn't work.
I almost didn't take this quiz since I am totally unfamiliar with today's music. Imagine my surprise when I got 5/10. That being said, I was intrigued with the incredible popularity of Mic Drop, so I gave it a listen. I am so very sorry...
I did the same thing with BTS, and I have to say, given the subterranean ceiling of tween pop, I was expecting a lot worse. Definitely not my thing, but it has a good beat, and at least the guys can rap a little. That's harder to do than what the Backstreet Boys did.
Van Halen a heavy metal band? I don't think so. Hard rock, hair band, maybe glam metal...but not heavy metal. I'd just go with the safe "rock band" and be done with it...
The fact that a publicly-editable site like Wikipedia has "heavy metal" listed off to the side, along with several other genres, is hardly a definitive classification. Even the first sentence of that very article states "Van Halen was an American rock band". I've been listening to metal for over 3 decades, and have had this conversation countless times with other fans (and non-fans), and can conclusively state that Van Halen are *not* metal. I'd even edit the Wikipedia article myself to exclude that, except that some clueless rando would undoubtedly add it back. There's no doubt that Van Halen are metal-adjacent, and that Eddie's guitar playing was highly influential upon future metal guitarists. But there's a reason that even on Wikipedia, the first sentence of articles about Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, or Slayer say they're metal bands, whereas the articles about Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, AC/DC, and Guns N' Roses classify them as "rock" or "hard rock".
If heavy metal is listed as their secondary genre, why would you describe them as a heavy metal band in the question? They aren't really associated with heavy metal, and hard rock is listed as their primary genre anyway, so it makes more sense to just call them a hard rock band.
I never understood why Despacito was so popular. It's a perfectly fine song, but it didn't seem any more special than the hundreds of other perfectly fine pop songs that didn't shatter nearly every popularity record.
Perfect storm of earworm repetition, Spanish + English, and Bieber. Picture Macarena but with Ricky Martin in the remix. It was the only one I missed. Kept getting that Shakira song from like a dozen years earlier in my head as I tried to come up with it.
The clue for Hamilton is going to get more and more difficult the further we get from the year. I mean... a lot of musicals that win Best Musical also win multiple other Tonys. South Pacific won 17.
Only knew 5, saddened by that the Van Halen question was least known.
Either way, it shows that those years are not my thing when it comes to music. I was born to late when it comes to my taste, half of my collection was released between 1965-1985. I'm from '85.
Genres: Hard rock, heavy metal, glam metal, pop rock
Either way, it shows that those years are not my thing when it comes to music. I was born to late when it comes to my taste, half of my collection was released between 1965-1985. I'm from '85.