{"id":305610,"date":"2025-07-31T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305610\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:42:09","slug":"three-minute-heroes-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305610\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-minute heroes – BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It is quite a bonkers song,\u201d she laughs. \u201cI wasn’t chasing a radio-friendly hit.”<\/p>\n

If you asked artificial intelligence to write a song like Angel Of My Dreams, she adds, “it would glitch. It would explode”.<\/p>\n

“You need real artists in the room, having these visions and changing the game and long may that continue.”<\/p>\n

After half a decade of chasing virality, pop is becoming wayward and reckless again – and it’s getting happier too.<\/p>\n

“I like to think of it as recession pop,\u201d says Dunn. “Everyone\u2019s just going dancing to counter the fact that the world is falling to shreds.”<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with the term “recession pop”, here\u2019s a brief explainer: In 2008, a global financial crisis, sparked by the collapse of the US housing market, was soundtracked by some of the most ridiculous, carefree music you could imagine.<\/p>\n

As people tried to escape the grim realities of life, they turned to hits like Black Eyed Peas\u2019 I Got A Feeling (4m 49s), Rihanna\u2019s Only Girl In The World (3m 55s) and Lady Gaga\u2019s Bad Romance (4m 54s).<\/p>\n

So is it happening again? Luckily, we have the data.<\/p>\n

Five years ago, the BBC reported<\/a> that the music people streamed during the Covid-19 pandemic was uniquely upbeat and sensual.<\/p>\n

To illustrate that, we relied on the vast catalogue of musical metadata that Spotify generates for the 100 million songs in its database.<\/p>\n

We were particularly interested in something called “emotional valence” – essentially a score for positivity, based on indicators such a song\u2019s lyrical outlook, whether it is written in a major key, and the strength of its beat.<\/p>\n

Tracks with a high score sound more positive (happy, euphoric), while tracks with a low score are considered negative (sad, angry).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a perfect measure, but it\u2019s largely accurate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It is quite a bonkers song,\u201d she laughs. \u201cI wasn’t chasing a radio-friendly hit.” If you asked artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15,21994,21995,21993],"class_list":{"0":"post-305610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-visual-journalism","12":"tag-visualjournalism","13":"tag-vj"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114945782086927689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}