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I feel the same way about a lot of modern hip-hop and pop music. I really enjoy the music but I just can't relate in any way to the bragging lyrics about having loads of money.
Feel like I've heard the Lamborghini Urus casually mentioned in about a dozen UK hip-hop tracks over the past 6 months..
They're just not timeless. If you were to go back in time to sell your ancestors on a song from the future, a lyric like "me wearing my Oaklies and taking a Polaroid selfie in Times Square" is probably not gonna translate so well. Therefore the song's message is probably superficial.
Not all hip-hop obviously, Pharcyde are pretty solid lyrically.
I actually have a sub dedicated to calculating how timeless a song is:
!howtimeless@lemmy.ml
Cool sub! I only know Outkast's Hey Ya out of the songs you've analyzed but I thought the analysis was really interesting.
Thanks! Feel free to add your own songs too