How TikTok Hijacked The Future Of Music - Nik Nocturnal - #1095

How big of an impact do you think TikTok has played in shaping the way that modern metal music sounds now? Ooh, uh, it it has a pretty big impact because all the young kids growing up right now on TikTok. And I remember, you know, even when I started YouTube, that was like a newer thing. People were discovering music through YouTube. I discovered a lot of like the big bands I listened to growing up through YouTube and that was like

unheard of. You know, it was like, no matter what, it was usually all on the radio or like, I don't know, your brother gave you like a cassette or like a CD. Yep. Um, so that was already such a new thing. There was kids discovering music through the internet.

And I mean MySpace, YouTube, I mean I Facebook to some capacity after that. So TikTok was kind of just that next generation of people scrolling and whatever they might be doing, doom scrolling or just, you know, I I don't try to find cooking recipes and then all of a sudden, you know, if they like music in any capacity, or any of, even if they don't, you know, they hear a sound and they're like, this is cool. And a lot of the things with modern metal is there's a lot of good uh clip moments usually with modern metal, particularly um, you know, whether it's the breakdown Or the other breakdown or the crazy vocal moment, um, or even on the guitar, so crazy guitar moment, maybe drum moment, right?

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