songs that have noticeably aged

I'm looking for those songs that have aged really glaringly, not just because of lyrics but things like the sound and production that marks it as being from a whole nother era

Post those songs and WHY they're really showing their age

Taeyang - Wedding Dress (2009)

Now i love this song to bits, but that Akon/Ne-yo ass sound is so specifically 2007-2009, and I don't see mainstream RnB coming back to that for at least 3 more years. He does a spoken word intro!! So right now it's this perfect fossil of a song.

edit: intro piano is a non-subtle River Flows In You nod, prove me wrong

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Problem is most songs that have "aged" are still 1 quintillion times better than the disposable noise that we have got going on these days. There is more passion, more musicality, more storytelling in these five minutes than the entire Hot 100 or Melon Top 100 combined tbh.

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this has aged uniquely terribly, but take away the canned orchestra and musically it's literally Blink 182 (slowed and reverbed). also, I sort of respect how he apparently had a raging coke addiction but still stayed so large. Man was on a mission.

RIP to a legend tho

now post some K POP you sentient mullet, any more age-gap rock and I'd think you were just stanning ive for their success

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If i'm being Honest , Most of 2NE1 title track

I still love them, and i still enjoy them because i grew up with them and these songs have a very special place in my heart

but i do understand why people now wouldn't necessarily wants to listen to their discography after listening to their title track

i dont know 2ne1's discog that well, but all the really big TT's sound normal to me, except maybe I Am The Best?

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And OMG you DID NOT COMPARE LITERAL LEGEND Meatloaf to those fake rockers known as Blink 182.

same songs different drugs

i checked out your posted covers, here are my thoughts

So Hot - inarguably a classic no matter how you slice it

#2 - no comment.

The Boys - it's the best SNSD song, maybe next to genie

Mirotic - this song is so old it loops back into being fresh again. Enhypen could do this justice in a couple years

Fiction - unironically my partners favourite kpop song of all time so it gets a pass no matter what

what i've learned from this is that it's often the production choices that age the songs in kpop. but you can dress them up with new voices/arrangments and they hold up pretty well

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"aging" doesnt exist in music. its just music. i always thought that was such a weird criticism of a song. trends arent relevant.

aesthetic preferences are not criticism :)

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Has your bae seen this 4th gen MBC Gayo version of Fiction i linked? I didnt really like the OG version with the rando BG i can never remember, but i was shocked speechless at this cover. Best vocal performance of any Gayo collab that i can remember, and yes i know it wasnt live but that dont matter, it was that good. Plus the production, whoever handled the sound production shoulda gotten a raise, the girls voices sounded so clear and immaculate with the emotional edge to them preserved as well. In particular, I never considered Ryujin a vocalist but her tone floored me here

"no comment" they said. the original is held too high. but its good I reckon