‘A Fortnite To Remember: Is Gaming the New Pop Music?

With the music industry being more fragmented than ever, youth culture has focused on an industry that is arguably more unified, the gaming industry. While 2020 was a year of uncertainty, the 12 months where we saw the coronavirus was also where video gaming became the pop culture phenomenon of all time, even overtaking music. But is this really the case? While only now we’ve seen prominent musicians connecting with their fans on a more personal level via social media, this something that gamers have been doing for a long time on platforms like Twitch. Why is gaming actually the new pop music? 

Maroon 5 Release Star-Studded Video For ‘Girls Like You’ (feat Cardi B)

Three-time GRAMMY Award-winning multi-platinum band Maroon 5 debuts the music video for their new single ‘Girls Like You’ featuring Cardi B (222 Records/Interscope) today. The video reunited the band with film director David Dobkin, who directed the band’s music video for ‘Sugar’.

Maroon 5 – ‘Red Pill Blues’

With guest appearances by SZA, A$AP Rocky, LunchMoney Lewis, Kendrick Lamar, Future and Julia Michaels, ‘Red Pill Blues’ by Maroon 5 is slick and polished and worth a good few listens. The album is the follow up to 2014s ‘V’, for which the band toured 3 years in support. The album is the first to feature Sam Farrar as a full-time member of the band, although he’s been a touring member since 2012.