![]() Good thing Jody Rosen was out there (in Slate) to point out what should have been obvious, namely that “As for hip-hop’s purported ‘death’: Musical genres never die.” He used the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science’s elimination of the Grammy Award of Best Polka Album as an example Jimmy Sturr had won it that final season, as he had in 18 of the 23 years the trophy was handed out, totally unfair to Eddie Blazoncyk’s Versatones and Lynn Marie and the Boxhounds of course but not remotely indicative of polka kicking the barrel. ![]() “If I had to pick a year for hip-hop’s demise, though, I would choose 2009.” (Death of Autotune)” in a year when Black-Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow” was the most popular song in the country for 12 weeks, a year immediately followed by nine weeks of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” at number one - that Jay-Z, always up with the trends! The Jigga Man’s erstwhile beefmate Nas had put out an album called Hip-Hop Is Dead three years before, but guess what year Sasha Frere-Jones, in The New Yorker, determined Nas’s prediction hit fruition? “I still suspect that Nas-along with a thousand bloggers-was not fretting needlessly,” he wrote. Jay-Z released a T-Pain/Lil Wayne/Kanye rejoinder called “D.O.A. Team Death seems to have been particularly active. ![]() And most people, who understandably never cared much about music in 2009 in the first place, probably said none of the above. Well okay, maybe you can say that for pretty much every year. Depending on who you asked about music at the time, 2009 was apparently either a year that everything died, everything changed, everything went wrong, or nothing happened.
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