Like many complaints about millennials, this trend really doesn’t bother me, but then I’m too old to expend the energy.
Is the Wha Oh the evolution of the Oh A Oh?
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Right. It was a fourteen-syllable utterance or gtfo(my lawn).
I remember then.
Wop, wop, patta patta pop-pop, shoo-wop-dah bop bop, ooh .
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Your avatar is not a mouse sir! Get your facts straight Rob.
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Wow. That was weird.
I missed the first Katy Perry note above the fist video and spent a whole bunch of time after that reading the captions and then doing what people usually do after reading a caption: looking upward to see the illustration above it.
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So crooning and yodeling are now a “Millennial thing”? Bullshit. I suppose next you’ll call peanut butter and banana sandwiches a “Millennial thing”.
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I think that’s 6 to minor 3. I think that would be a lot more unusual for pop music, where you rarely hear a 6. It’s jazzy.
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Better or worse than yarling?
Summer is icumen in. Lhude sing wha-ou!
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Litigating over this drivel is why our civil court system is backlogged up the wazoo. What if some hack artist copyrighted the color white? Or if the court would’ve let Trump copyright “You’re fired”?
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Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
For I have loved wha-oh so long,
Delighting in your company.
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Katie: “Wha Oh! Wha Oh!”
Me:
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well, at least i know the proper term for it. poor millennials – even their grating generic pop vocalizations are branded now!
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millennials catch a lot of crap, but consider for a hot second what their forbears left them to work with. if they want to have upbeat Oh Whas in their pop music, i’d say that’s fine.
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Wordless vocalizations have been in music about as long as there’s been music. This isn’t a “millennial” thing any more than Little Richard’s "wooo"s are a baby boomer thing (and Paul McCartney picked them up for his songs, and then Michael Jackson after that, and so on). And they’re not relegated to pop music either, they’re in any music that one might sing along to.
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This song has an amazing Wha-oh @ 0:22…
And I like Mates of State no matter how millennial that may make me.
Right, but it seems that the “wha oh” has recently been way more prolific in pop music. They aren’t the originators of “wha oh”. They aren’t the first or only ones to sue wordless vocalizations. It isn’t the only vocalization used today. But it is being used a lot more in music lately and leading to a vibe or a sound that binds them together as part of a movement.
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Yeah, but that fifth/third thing really is endemic to millennial pop.
…and it’s one of the places where my irrational distaste for “the younger generation” kicks into gear for some reason. There were a couple of commercials for Toyota a short while back that really harped on that motif and drove me nuts.
It’s my problem, I’ll deal with it. But I swear, if I catch one more hipster busking on my lawn, yodeling fifths and thirds…
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