Article 1S03D The ‘Millennial Whoop’, A Musical Phrase That Has Worked Its Way Into Many Modern Pop Songs

The ‘Millennial Whoop’, A Musical Phrase That Has Worked Its Way Into Many Modern Pop Songs

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Glen Tickle
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Quartz writer Adam Epstein called attention to "The Millennial Whoop", a term first coined by writer and musician Patrick Metzger in a post on his blog The Patterning. The Millennial Whoop is a musical phrase where singers move between the fifth and third notes of a major scale while singing "Oh" or a similar noise. Epstein's video for Quartz has no shortage of examples of the Whoop being used in songs from the past few years.

Once you hear it, you can't un-hear it. It will be forever with you. Just a warning.

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