According to Wikipedia:
Boomers: 1946 - 1964
Generation X: early-mid 60's - early 80's
Millennial: early '80's - mid/late 90's.
Generation Z: the real young 'uns
So, I'm straddling being part of Generation X and being a Millennial
I didn't care for Brit Pop. I was listening to Pink Floyd's "Division Bell" when Blur's "Park Life" came out.
Lol! Ariana Grande is way way out of my demographic but since she's on heavy rotation on terrestrial radio I don't mind her. I just played "No Tears Left To Cry" on Spotify Premium to take a listen on my system. Got to say it was a pretty good beat. My subs were working the low notes on that one. My spouse came up stairs and said "what happened to David Brubeck?" haha
Haha, a bit of a departure form Brubeck!
That is the only track from the album that stood out to me, the rest maybe a bit better than the usual generic. Nothing getting my attention.
At least, for 2018
it's not ridiculously loud for the sake of being loud, those who like to colour by numbers will find DR values more acceptable. edit:
Yeah it is compressed and limited, but at least some of the tracks don't sound as bad as other examples of similar DR. DR values are a weighted crest-factor anyway, just an indicator of limiting. Doesn't tell us anything about the dynamic musical content, which would be loudness range. No Tears Left To Cry at least sounds halfway decent, even if it might sound better with less limiting and a general approach to making it loud.
At least with these new headphones I can listen to all this modern tripe without getting taps on the wall from other, more mature folks in the house.
Wading through some Dua Lipa. Interesting, but those processed sounds are littered all over the place. I don't have the headphones up loud yet it keeps sounding like something has been blown out, or is flapping around and vibrating somewhere. It's extremely distracting. The sounds are utterly unmusical and do nothing but to prevent listening to the track as I go off trying to diagnose what is broken in my audio chain. A big question mark!
Take away track from Dua Lipa for me is easily "One Kiss" (Calvin Harris). I just did not like "New Rules" when I heard and saw it on the Freeview TV 'music' * channels. Hearing it without the video, with some better range than an LCD TV and some bottom end, yeah I don't mind it so much.
* Music channels should stick to music. Those damned Kardashians (I thought it was a spin off series from Start Trek TNG/DS9/Voyager). Some show about 16 years birthday parties. Ooof. I think they had a slot of about an hour a day of playing modern tunes.