u/mesablanka

TikTok, love it or hate it (or be completely indifferent to it), the power it has to bring new life into bands and artists that would've otherwise just stayed in their own niche, or woulda remained obscure, is kinda insane. So throw a band at destiny you feel TikTok kids would've eaten up if they ever discovered them today. (Preferably if they're from around the 2000s to early 2010s, although seeing a 90s pop punk group getting newfound popularity would be funny as hell too)

TikTok, love it or hate it (or be completely indifferent to it), the power it has to bring new life into bands and artists that would've otherwise just stayed in their own niche, or woulda remained obscure, is kinda insane. So throw a band at destiny you feel TikTok kids would've eaten up if they ever discovered them today. (Preferably if they're from around the 2000s to early 2010s, although seeing a 90s post-hardcore group getting newfound popularity would be funny but cool as hell too)

Given that Percy Jackson finally managed to get a second wind thanks to the Disney+ show, despite not being perfect, being MILES better than the two movies that preceded it, that got me asking what book series could benefit from having a second wind at an adaptation?

Been thinking either Eragon or, as a more deeper cut, the Darren Shan book series, that got a film adaptation back in 2009 that flopped incredibly, and maybe could get an opportunity at finding a larger audience if it got a tv show (and interestingly, the books were popular enough in Japan to the point it even got an official manga adaptation)

Lil Wayne's recent right wing pandering and his dismissive reaction to the BLM protests and racism in general really retroactively takes away a lot of the impact of his older song Georgia Bush, which is him criticizing Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina that especially hit his hometown of NO

Any rapper talking crap about older rappers now that they're close to their 40s themselves and are still active in music

Eminem's productions from the 2000s have a very particular, sparse and gritty style that was very recognizable, even if kinda one-note at some points (as I heard from some people, sounds like Luigi's Mansion music), which is why I've never woulda ever guessed in a million years that he was behind the beat to Smack That by Akon until quite recently lmao

DJ Premier is a legend but since he found his signature style at around 1997/1998-ish his beats have lowkey kinda sounded like slight re-hashes of themselves ever since, save the occasional different sound

There is this old ass song by Tyga from 2008 called "Diamond Life" (which I heard on NFS Undercover as a kid and for years never even knew it was him), alongside his verse off "That's All I Have" off No Ceilings by Lil Wayne he is legitimately rapping his ass off like his life depended on it, and even tho he found his niche with doing a particular brand of pop rap as he blew up, it really made me look at him differently

Same as Eminem nowadays whenever he actually chills out with his stiffer modern style once a full moon and actually slides on a track, like he did on Caterpillar by Royce da 5'9"

I've been listening to a buncha songs Dr. Dre has been involved with over the years, and ofc it's obviously from him getting older, but I swear something musta happened between the 2000s and 2010s because modern Dre doesn't even sound like the same guy anymore lmao

And also another good example of that for me is Prodigy of Mobb Deep; he got some gravel in his vocal chords over the years lol