Feeling sick of listening to the same half-whispered, slurred English singers who pronounce every ‘s’ as ‘sh’? Are you looking to expand your musical horizons to the extent that you can find yourself in another universe? Take a look at these different music genres, drop the idea that ‘current’ and ‘new’ means ‘good’, and you very well might just find your latest old jam.
To take an existing song and reinvent it in a new, often older genre has been an emerging phenomenon for a while now. Typically, this trend is restricted to recording contemporary songs and then making them look like 20th-century-style songs. But what if we go much further back? Way further back? Well, please welcome us to the beautiful world of Bardcore.
While nostalgia can be seen as the main driver behind the success of reverse engineering modern pop songs, who will be feeling nostalgic for music from the Middle Ages? It is partly the encounter with this somewhat familiar era and the availability of the modern song that makes listening to bardcore as much a journey of discovery as simply listening to good music.
Before long, you’ll forget the original lyrics to Lady GaGa’s “Hips Don’t Lie” and be singing Hildegard von Blingin’s version instead: “I want your horror, I want your design / you’re a criminal while you’re mine.”
