Anxiety Pop

WARNING: This article, as well as the entire wiki were written by me and an old friend when we both hated everything that didn't have guitars in it. "Anxiety Pop" is not a real genre. It was a pejorative term we came up with to describe the downbeat trend pop music took starting in the mid-2010s. Not only has this trend kind of been falling by the wayside in favor of more upbeat, fast styles such as hyperpop, the opinions espoused here are very outdated. He wanted this place deleted, and I initially agreed, but I wanna keep it up now for posterity. This is a potential snapshot of what two "alternative" teenagers in the late 2010s thought about the music of their time, and if people start complaining about the modern music of the future, show them this wiki to prove that people did this shit back then too. 
Anxiety Pop (alternatively, Depression Pop) is a subgenre of pop music that exploded in the late 2010s. Yet another stupid sub genre of contemporary pop being hailed as "true art" yet needing 9999999 high end LA studios to get the exact sound it possesses, anxiety pop is music for people (generally HIP YOUNG MILLENNIALS aged 14-20+) that are glued to Instagram 24/7, enjoy suicide memes, avidly watch Netflix original shows, say "I'M LIKE" in almost every sentence, and most importantly, pop xanax pills like candy corn. 
Anxiety pop emerged as early as 2013 when New Zealand artist Lorde released the song Royals when she was just 16 fucking years old, setting the trend of anxiety poppers being regularly below legal ages for anything, and over the next few years it quickly supplanted larger than life type superstars that had been prominent earlier in the decade (such as Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus) in favor of sadgrrrls who get famous through the social meeds and shit. 
Lyrical content typically includes being stressed out, not getting a stupid fucking text back from your significant other, once again doing yer pillies and xans, and other typical millennial problems. Album and song titles are generally stylized in all lowercase to signify how SAD AND STRESSED OUT the artist is. The music is typically driven by boring low key beats, including the jittering hi hats found in trap rap (currently the most trendy shit as of the time of writing) with annoying contemporary pop style vocals, and rather than having actual choruses, they will typically have some farting EDM drop that means nothing, and in true 2010s pop fashion, the songs all have 999999 songwriters and the albums and songs have just as many producers.
Anxiety pop is mostly made by female artists originating from a rich privileged background who were raised in a major metropolitan area who love to boast their LE MENTUL HELTH as if it's some kind of personality trait.
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