Album Rating: 5.0

the fuck are you saying

is there a really a band called corpse husband trending on Tik Tok?

Album Rating: 4.5

I don’t think Tik Tok is reducing music to anything cause if you’re the type of person who appreciates and is interested in music then Tik Tok won’t deter you from listening to full songs/albums. It’s not like there’s people who would be listening to 10 full albums a day and writing rym reviews but they don’t cause of Tik Tok

but the thing is say so slaps

not that that changes anything just thought I’d share

Album Rating: 4.5

"i think the important disclaimer here is *POP* music

the only reason tiktok has an effect upon it currently is because tiktok is currently ingrained in youth *POP* culture

resultingly we've seen songs that have blown up from tiktok trends chart quite well (see: say so)

it's only a matter of time before the influence seeps"



yeah but I feel like any artist that will make music solely to cater to Tik Tok probably already sucks anyway, what are we really losing

Album Rating: 4.5

people already hit pop culture relevance for obscenely stupid reasons, I don't think that happening through tik tok changes anything



plus I think tik tok is a niche enough concept that it will eventually die out and become lame and people will be super embarrassed by it looking back

Album Rating: 5.0

tik tok culture isnt going anywhere if it dies another app like it will take its place that only makes that shit go deeper

the seeds for the "trendy quip and song and dance" culture were sown a decade ago. it was Vine then, which was epic 7 second funnies, catering to that massive but relatively much smaller crowd. the need for something similar after it shut down it caused Musical.ly to blow up, which was basically just TikTok v.1.

each newer incarnation reigned in another how many tens of millions of users from cross-platform negotiation and ridiculously rigorous advertising. whatever ends up being the successor will be no different

"plus I think tik tok is a niche enough concept that it will eventually die out and become lame and people will be super embarrassed by it looking back"

the people who run these apps aren't concerned with the minority of former users who realize how lame it was. when you have enough cultural influence to bring in millions of children each year who just turned old enough to have their own device, that market runs itself. it's no longer a niche concept

Album Rating: 4.5

tik tok might not be niche in that it's hugely successful and well known but I feel like the idea of doing trendy little dances to music clips doesn't have as much staying power as platforms like instagram or snapchat which are used for a more general purpose. not sure if it'll stay popular for too much longer, could be a good few years though. and I feel like vine was different cause it was used more for short skits and clips and not so much the dance trends and challenges and what not

Album Rating: 4.5

It was for like 2 months in 2012

tik tok is as mainstream as it gets

also lmfao

i've talked to younger sister, who uses the app regularly, about why it appeals to her. apparently there are numerous, fairly popular subcultures of topics that run in the apps (relative) underground - she calls it "alt tiktok" - that consider the traditional song-and-dance "basic tiktok" to be the lame mainstream. communities about books, horoscopes, drugs, political issues, (very very minimal) music discussion, etc.

the app has been deliberately constructed to cater to a lot: the kind of entertainment it sustains now, Vine-ish skits, music-themed trendy/relatable/funny, and topic-driven communities, albeit without much interpersonal connection like Sputnik. with the diversity it has i doubt it's going away any time soon

Album Rating: 5.0

ledd ur speakin truth 🙌

Album Rating: 5.0

...regrettably tho. zoomer culture is ushering a lot of important things in very bad and flawed ways that frustrate the hell outta me as someone who is was and will be personally affected by these said things. not worth going into detail. but this is the generation im trying to speak to with my art so. yea theyre oft dumb and tiring but im tryin ta help em not be ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

go de-zoom them tiger



blast it into their mouth



make them fear the New Sput Order

"regrettably" is right. despite what those kinds of apps have to offer, there's still a desperate and disingenuous lacquer that seems to coat the majority of goings-on and perpetuate a lot of harmful attitudes

it's half the reason I'm drawn to a platform like Sputnik. it's just so much more simple and transparent

Album Rating: 4.5

that's interesting that it has so much diversity, I guess that makes sense for any major platform in 2021. I figured it would be more just for the dancing and music stuff cause having the music actually be on the app is pretty much the defining trait of Tik Tok. otherwise it's all just stuff you could do on twitter or instagram. it's kinda funny actually how every major social media platform just does stuff facebook has been doing since like 2005 besides maybe snapchat

Album Rating: 4.5

also I think dancing is cool but the way people dance on tik tok is genuinely embarrassing. I didn't even know it was possible to be that stiff while dancing lol. it's a platform for zoomers but people exclusively dance with their arms like they're 80 years old