{"id":40365,"date":"2026-02-06T16:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=40365"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:12:18","slug":"its-just-a-loop-mariah-carey-names-the-one-music-genre-she-cant-stand-calling-it-boring-and-the-disco-of-our-time-af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=40365","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s Just a Loop.\u201d \u2014 Mariah Carey Names the One Music Genre She Can\u2019t Stand, Calling It \u201cBoring\u201d and \u201cThe Disco of Our Time\u201d After Scanning Through 100 Songs on iTunes Without Finding a Single Good Track."},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Mariah Carey<\/span><\/span><\/strong> talks about music, she speaks less like a pop star and more like a guardian of the craft. So when the \u201cSongbird Supreme\u201d recently reflected on the state of modern charts, her verdict landed with surgical precision \u2014 and zero mercy. There is one genre, she says, that has completely lost its soul: Electronic Dance Music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carey revealed that her frustration crystallized during a simple act most artists do casually \u2014 browsing for inspiration. While scrolling through the Top 100 songs on iTunes, she realized something unsettling. \u201cI went through a hundred tracks,\u201d she said, \u201cand it felt like I was listening to the same four bars over and over again. It\u2019s just a loop.\u201d No bridge. No emotional arc. No payoff. Just repetition.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Carey, that moment summed up everything she finds wrong with modern EDM. She described the genre as \u201cboring,\u201d overly mechanical, and obsessed with the drop at the expense of storytelling. To her ear, it represents a shortcut \u2014 music engineered for instant reaction rather than lasting feeling.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then came the comparison that set the internet buzzing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carey called EDM \u201cthe disco of our time,\u201d predicting that, like disco in the late 1970s, it has been over-commercialized to the point of collapse. Disco, she noted, didn\u2019t fail because it lacked creativity \u2014 it burned out because everyone chased the same formula. In Carey\u2019s view, EDM is now trapped in that same cycle, endlessly recycled by pop artists looking for quick, club-ready hits.<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes her critique more pointed is that Carey is no stranger to dance music herself. Throughout her career, she embraced club culture through house remixes, famously collaborating with producers like David Morales<\/span><\/span><\/strong>. The difference, she insists, was intention. She always re-recorded her vocals, reshaping performances to fit the rhythm. Modern EDM, she argues, strips away that humanity \u2014 replacing breath, phrasing, and nuance with presets and predictability.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her comments arrive at a moment of creative confidence. Carey\u2019s 16th studio album, Here For It All<\/span><\/span><\/em>, released in September 2025, has been widely praised as a rejection of \u201cloop culture.\u201d Built around live instrumentation and layered vocal arrangements, the project leans into the qualities she feels the charts have abandoned: melody, structure, and emotional payoff.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracks like \u201cSugar Sweet\u201d featuring Kehlani<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, the retro-funk \u201cPlay This Song\u201d with Anderson .Paak<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, and the gospel-driven \u201cJesus I Do\u201d with The Clark Sisters<\/span><\/span><\/strong> underline her point. These songs breathe. They build. They resolve.<\/span><\/p>\n

At 56, and freshly honored as the 2026 MusiCares Person of the Year, Carey isn\u2019t chasing relevance \u2014 she\u2019s challenging discipline. Her message to younger artists is blunt but clear: technology should support the song, not replace it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trends may loop endlessly, but Mariah Carey has built her legacy on climaxes, bridges, and emotion. And in her world, no genre that forgets those fundamentals can ever truly last.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When Mariah Carey talks about music, she speaks less like a pop star and more like a guardian of the craft. So when the \u201cSongbird Supreme\u201d recently reflected on the state of modern charts, her verdict landed with surgical precision \u2014 and zero mercy. There is one genre, she says, that has completely lost its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}