10 musicians, whose creativity remembered 2010s

1. Kanye West

2010s began with the album Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Lyrics release is centered around the figure of the artist - a world star, in which the self-praise is trying to live with self-doubt. The album was released with the Runaway - film includes the same song, and excerpts from other tracks. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is still considered one of the best hip-hop releases of all time - talk about itMy Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 94 out of 100 points on Metacritic.

After this album Kanye invent their music several times again, referring to the hard and minimalist sound in Yeezus and returning to the eclectic hip-hop in The Life of Pablo. Along the way, the rapper released a collaborative album with Jay-Z and Kid Cudi, at the end of the decade was with Lil Pump in the comic clip I Love It. And what would the West do, is to listen, talk and argue about it.

Kanye West is one of those artists that never adjusted to the expectations of the public. Here is a short list of things that could make a musician in the 2010s: compare himself with Jesus and Mahatma Gandhi, publicly support Donald Trump, that a world presentation release, playing songs from your laptop, and delay the album release announced more than year. For any other artist such acts are career suicide, but Kanye got away with it. And it will go, until he wrote this music.

2. Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar figure appeared in the music field at the turn of decades. If in the 2000s it was popular only in a native of Compton, in the 2010s it began and still continues active expansion of his work in the world. Particularly important are considered to be the last three albums. They meetAlbum Releases by Score on the first line of the rating of the best releases in the history of Metacritic more often than work of any other artist, with reviews by both critics and audiences.

Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - a concept album, the story of 17-year-old boy from the ghetto komptonskogo. Kendrick is here expresses the idea that the link with the crime - is not part of the style, and certainly not a reason to be proud. Rather, it is a sign of weakness and inability to deny ill surroundings.

Next record To Pimp a Butterfly Lamar finally secured a position as one of the most important rappers of our time. This is an experimental music and hip-hop, absorbed the influence of soul, funk, avant-garde jazz. It raises the theme of racial discrimination and police brutality, and found the treatment also komptonskomu ghetto, which permeated all work of the rapper. Lamar says workPresident Obama Says Kendrick Lamar's «How Much a Dollar Cost» Was His Favorite Song of 2015 Barack Obama, calling How Much A Dollar Cost his favorite track in 2015. Lines from a song Alright pickKendrick Lamar's 'Alright' chanted by protestors at Trump's Chicago rally participants antitrampovskih demonstrations.

next album DAMN - a complex conceptual work, including references to the Scriptures. For the record Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize in music. This is unprecedented: to him this honor awarded only academic and jazz musicians.

3. Beyoncé

Beyoncé Knowles has becomeThe 10 Defining Artists of the 2010s (So Far) the most influential musician of the 2010s by Billboard version. The reason is not only in the four commercially successful albums, speeches at the inauguration of Barack Obama or the Super Bowl. It plays an important role and the image of the singer promoted her political and social ideas. In the 2010s Beyoncé touched on themes of feminism and racism. Thus, the album 4 It included the national anthem of strong women Run the World (Girls).

Image Beyonce layWhy A Feminist Professor Is Teaching An Entire Class About Beyoncé based training course, taught at Rutgers University in New Jersey. According to the biography and work of the singer's students study the relationship of gender, race and sexuality, as well as explore Beyonce's personality as a feminist icon of the LGBT community and political figures.

4. David Bowie

One of the greatest musicians of the XX century in the 2010s discussed at least twice. The first mentions were associated with the release in 2013 The Next Day - plates, which critics have noted how successful, but not a landmark. For example, in the list of the best albums of the year by NME she gotNME's 50 Best Albums Of 2013 41 th place, and in the same chart from Rolling Stone was not included at all.

A second time Bowie remembered in connection with the release of the album Blackstar January 8, 2016 and first actor's death from liver cancer. The release was one of the darkest and most desperate of work Bowie. a significant part of Blackstar jazz avant constitute insertion and a single title is composed of two parts and lasts 10 minutes.

The tragic context gave ground for a new reading of the album's songs, and producer Tony Visconti called releaseDavid Bowie's last release, Lazarus, was 'parting gift' for fans in carefully planned finale Bowie his farewell gift to his fans.

5. Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey appeared on the musical horizon with a single Video GamesAnd later presented the album Born to Die. At the same time it has become one of the first pop stars of the new formation - an independent singer began on the path to fame with the publication of a video on YouTube, and not to adjust to the existing standards of popular music.

Lana Del Rey retrodivoy called for an appeal to the aesthetics of American 50-60s, but the music it distinctive - it's slow melancholic pop. The singer described it as Hollywood sadcore. The formula has not changed for almost 10 years and continues to work: released in August 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell gotNorman Fucking Rockwell Proud 87 points out of 100 on Metacritic.

6. Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift - iconic American singer whose popularity in this decade has spread far beyond his native continent. In the 2010s came from the singer five albums, and each appears before the listener a new Taylor.

The decade began with the country-pop album Speak NowAnd the next release Red It marked the transition phase of the singer in the category of pop artists. Track I Knew You Were Trouble He became one of the biggest hits of 2012.

Album 1989 - the first work of Swift in the pop genre. Thereafter, the release of the singer began to actively speak and write in the press, and by such attention even had to go underground.

The next album was called Reputation and marked the beginning of "dark era" Taylor Swift. She appeared in quite a different way: it is now driven to the boiling point, offended and angered Taylor.

While it continued to sell records, despite the warTaylor Swift returns to Spotify on same day that Katy Perry drops new album Witness with strimingovymi services. Earlier, Taylor withdrew from there his music because disagreement with their work conditions.

In 2019 Swift released the album Lover. The release marked a return to the light pop music, and at the same time growing up singer who is now just not interested to engage in war.

Taylor Swift hit the defined standards of the pop scene, while remaining vibrant and recognizable produced several commercially successful albums, the same time re-invented their own music and, more importantly, always be honest with listener.

7. Billy Aylish

It completed a decade marked by Billy Aylish - the most popular of the new icons of teenagers. her single Bad Guy I hit the first line of the Billboard Hot 100. This is the first time a leader of the American charts was a man, born in the XXI century.

Debut album Aylish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? stayed in the leading position UK Albums Chart 114 days. This allowed her to getYoungest female at No.1 on UK albums chart in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest singer with the release of the first line of the British charts.

History "billimanii" unprecedented: the singer's album was the most anticipated debut release in recent years. The key to the hearts of young fans was matched perfectly: it is ingeniously recorded and mixed music, image depressed teenager in baggy clothes and almost childlike casual (think air in "Evening Urgant "). Not without the contribution of music media, created Aylish singer's reputation, which is definitely worth a listen and discuss.

The phenomenon of Billy Aylish - is taking place right now quite a success story of a new star. One that writes one of the top albums of the year in her room, reached career tops in the minors and if by chance does a better pop music for teenagers. How long will this fuse, find out in the 2020s.

8. Oxxxymiron

Miron Fedorov started recording rap back in the 2000s, but the popularity came to him later - with the first album and two mixtapes, issued between 2011 and 2013 years. Oxxxymiron entered into the everyday life of domestic fans of hip-hop word "grime", popularized texts literary and historical references, and it has become the main face of the new era in domestic music - a time when about rap We are talking all.

Part of the success came to Oxxxymiron due to a series of victories in battles with Johnyboy, Dunya and creep-and-creep. Versus became a platform where coolness rapper equivalent mastery verses, which he humiliates the rival.

Fuel battles and Oxxxymiron early releases enough for a long time, but by the mid 2010s it became clear that the need to produce something else. In 2015 the rapper has recorded "Gorgorod" - a concept album, reminiscent of the anti-utopian audiobook without independent tracks. Myron was preparing for a long time listening to the output of more serious work - it says, for example, the use of the cover of "Little Tower of Babel", but not great. But "the same" album was never released.

Versus partially spawned new king Russian rap, a little later he overthrew him: after fight with purulent became apparent that Oxxxymiron not the best Battle-MS. At this stage in the discography Fedorov comes a long lull, interrupted occasionally vague singles and fitami. The new album yesterday, King Russian rap waiting for much less than it was five years ago, and there is no certainty that the plate will not be dissolved in countless hip-hop releases issued today. But it does not prevent any act Oxxxymiron, whether sudden application for online Battle march or a rally, become an occasion for discussion.

9. Skriptonit

Skriptonita first album "House with a normal phenomenon" lifted the bar in the Russian rap. This release showed that the flow of bright and talented enough lines and in addition they can be used for something else. For example, blues guitar and trip-hop bits.

In the second half of the 2010s Skriptonit released three more albums, and then said about leaving the rap. Today Adil (present name of the musician) is no longer ward label Gazgolder, and the founder of his community Musica36, as well as the frontman of the project Gruppa Skryptonite.

Style Skriptonita difficult to imitate: it simply does not exist without Asian charm and typical "drunken" flow. But a certain continuity is still there, such as in the music of the Kazakh rapper Black Cumin Oil. Most likely, we will hear about it in the 2020s. As of Skriptonite who will again do something new.

10. Ivan Dorn

For Ivan Dorn decade began with the departure from the group "A pair of normal" (perhaps the most correct step in the artist's career). In 2011 came the first popular singles: "Northern Lights", "hate" and "Stytsamen" - the one hit, in which the singer urging people not to hesitate.

Dorn of those artists that do not like to repeat. Now he has a jazz-funk program, an experimental album in English, and - from the recent - the song with the chirping of birds sampled. Most popular new work can not be compared with "Stytsamenom", but the actor regularly produces seasonal hits and interesting clips.

Ivan Dorn music activity is not limited to: he opened Masterskaya label, which already had time to get out releases of artists like "UNION" and Cream Soda.