Well since you're comparing it to today's pop music.
Erm this song would kinda stand out, I imagine it could have made it big two years ago. It sounds fairly typical of the fun side of that year's mainstream stuff. Weird use of autotune, vaguely danceable beat that has guitar stuff going on, lyrics which really aren't about anything. Yeah, it fits to me. Granted 2012 was a (imo) great year for pop music.
I honestly prefer most of the this week's Top 10 to that song, I'm afraid, and I only really like Problem (generic beat, generic lyrics but good vocals and rapping), Happy and maybe Turn Down For What on a good day.
Maybe that song sounds better to me because "semi recent" could easily mean 2013, and 2013 was a miserable, disheartening time for popular music.
Erm this song would kinda stand out, I imagine it could have made it big two years ago. It sounds fairly typical of the fun side of that year's mainstream stuff. Weird use of autotune, vaguely danceable beat that has guitar stuff going on, lyrics which really aren't about anything. Yeah, it fits to me. Granted 2012 was a (imo) great year for pop music.
I honestly prefer most of the this week's Top 10 to that song, I'm afraid, and I only really like Problem (generic beat, generic lyrics but good vocals and rapping), Happy and maybe Turn Down For What on a good day.
Maybe that song sounds better to me because "semi recent" could easily mean 2013, and 2013 was a miserable, disheartening time for popular music.