Cringe pop

Cringe pop is a genre of pop music written to be cringeworthy, deliberately or unintentionally.

Cringe pop
Stylistic originsPop
Cultural originsEarly 2010s, United States
Regional scenes
Cyberculture
Other topics
Outsider music

History

Rebecca Black's song "Friday" is usually credited as giving birth to the genre.[1] The song, which was released in 2011, has over 149.6 million views and 3.8 million dislikes on YouTube as of January 2021.[2]

Black was soon followed by Taher Shah, a Pakistani musician and businessman. His music video "Angel" went viral.[3] His first music video, "Eye to Eye", was released in 2013, and "Angel" was released in 2016.[4]

Cringe pop has spread due to the advancement of technology, essentially allowing anyone with a laptop to be able to produce a song and a music video.[5]

Examples

Jacintha Morris, an Indian civil servant, released "Is Suzainn the Sinner" in 2016, which was labelled a cringe pop song.[6] Morris herself denied that the song was intended to be cringe pop.[7]

Other examples include "Aunty Ki Ghanti" by Indian rapper Omprakash Mishra released in 2015[8] and "PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)" by Japanese comedian Pikotaro, and the "Pokémon Go Song" by Czech child singer Misha/Mishovy Silenosti, both released in 2016.[9]

Tony Kakkar, an Indian singer and composer, is often called out for cringe-worthy lyrics. [10]

Reception

Such songs are described as being "so bad that you can not stop watching them".[3]

See also

References
  1. "Cringe Pop: The Genre That Has Taken The Internet By Storm". Cosmopolitan.
  2. "Rebecca Black - Friday" – via YouTube.
  3. Nath, Parshathy J. "Cringe benefits". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  4. Nauman, Qasim. "See the 'Cringe-Pop' Music Video from Pakistan Taking the Internet by Storm". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  5. "Taher Shah & the Rise of Cringe-Pop". Arré. 11 April 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  6. "'Cringe pop' creator defies her critics". BBC News. 18 June 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  7. "It was my dream project: Jacintha Morris". Deccan Chronicle. 11 June 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  8. "The psychology of cringe-pop fans: Why people like Omprakash Mishra's Aunty ki Ghanti". Hindustan Times.
  9. "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen: This cringe pop wonder from Japan has taken internet by storm - Firstpost". Firstpost. 28 September 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  10. "Neha Kakkar's Goa Beach, Adnan Sami's Tu Yaad Aya and Asim Riaz anthem: Top Hindi tracks of February 11". The Indian Express. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
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