Top 10 Biggest Reasons Why TikTok is Having a Bad Influence on Popular Music
While a good number of musicians are working extremely hard to achieve their dreams, others don't put in as much effort into their music and still manage to go viral on TikTok somehow. TikTok is having a negative influence on popular music; this has been evident on several occasions.Nowadays, more songs are made specifically to go viral on TikTok.
Nowadays, most new artists will be known for "that one song that went viral on TikTok" and not much else.
Recently, some artists such as Halsey, Charli XCX, and Kim Petras have expressed their frustrations towards record labels. These labels won't release new music until the artists make a viral challenge on TikTok. Record companies are basically ruining musicians' careers by wanting viral songs.
Have you noticed that most popular songs these days last two minutes on average?
Another example of musicians lacking creativity and record companies wanting more money.
Record companies get most of the profit from TikTok success.
For example, Jain and her viral hit "Makeba". I went to see her at a festival recently, and after she performed "Makeba", a lot of people left before she finished her set. Call that the TikTok effect. But I don't think she really cares because her career was already well-established in France before "Makeba" (which is actually an old hit from 2015-16) went viral on TikTok.
It seems like now "fake fans" are going to concerts of artists whose songs go viral on TikTok just to hear ten seconds of their biggest song, which went viral on the platform. A great example of this is Steve Lacy and his hit "Bad Habit". These "fake fans" have been buying tickets to his concerts but only know about ten or twenty seconds of "Bad Habit". (I think it's a great song, and I know a lot of the lyrics.) They don't know any of the other verses or lyrics of the rest of the song, especially his other songs.
Even Lacy himself is upset about this, and he claims that TikTok has ruined him. Hopefully, these "fake fans" stop going to concerts just to hear the 10-20 seconds of a song that is huge on TikTok. I'll only go to concerts of artists that I love.
It's crazy how most TikTok users like only one part of a song but not the rest of it.
Should TikTok fall off, what will we have next?