What genres (especially current pop genres) make the heaviest use of the minor key?

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1. The Dirty South [EXPLICIT LYRICS]
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I suspect you're going to find the minor key everywhere you look nowadays. Dance music of all sorts has been relentlessly minor since its inception, practically. Rock and some pop seem to have maintained a taste for major exercises once in a while, but hip-hop, techno, and many other genres long ago opted for the more intense and yes, occasionally depressing sound of the minor.

Millar, that sort of shoots down my theory that a preference for a minor sound, or modal music, is somehow a big factor in my taste (since it hasn't been enough to get me into most dance music). Of course, I already know that there's a lot of modal music I don't especially click with, so duh.

However, I'd still be intersted in hearing more responses.

yeah see modal music = the blues. Tricky, that. (I know that I prefer minor/modal music to other kinds, but I always sort of knew that the ultimate deciding factor in whether or not I liked something was the sonic texture, if you will, the combination of timbre and tuning and effecting that makes it all a big pleasant noise (also funky riddims))

and in case you weren't totally down, the blues = practically all pop music of the past century.

I'm not sure I can accept that (even without jumping into "exotic" foreign pop musics). I actually don't like the blues, in a relatively pure form, for the most part. I don't think you could find a blues foundation in even all Beatles songs, for example, and they are a pretty mainstream example of pop music.

(Also, though, Afro-Latin music isn't structured around the blues, even if there are probably some common roots to both if you take it back a step.)

also, isn't most pop music structured around 8-measure phrases rather than 12?

Also, most pop is 4/4 rather than 3/4.

I don't mean 12-bar blues, specifically, I was talking about the mode

"modal music = the blues"

what do you mean by this? blues is based on a pentatonic scale with a flat 5 and a I IV V progression with all the chords being dominant sevens.

Pop music of the 20th century was decidedly not modal in the sense that I understand modal music. I think Kind Of Blue when I think modal.

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Hip-hop and straight pop often use minor keys.
See Britney Spears,
"Baby One More Time, "Oops I Did It Again?"
and Blackalicious,
"Sky Is Falling."
It's not that exotic. You may be referring to modes, like
that used by the awesome vocal line in Jay-Z's "The Bounce"
(though that song is ruined by a lame guest appearance).

Pop country still uses lots of minor keys. It's a cheap trick, like divas popping up a key to add emotion to a final chorus.

a cheap trick indeed, but it works. Better than the 909 snare roll.

pop country would be better if they used 808 jeep beetz.

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