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The Gen Alpha Melody v Dark Child

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No commitment, like what's I think it's correction. We were learning from some mistakes, and once you start seeing the mistakes or seeing the hurdles, then then you start to correct it. And that's been fixing it. That's where Gen Alpha kind of wins, though, too, is because you have a generation who's like, oh shoot, we forgot to teach them like this is a good example, uh, how to have eye contact. We mentioned that in our podcast recently.

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So that's those things that we're like getting out, living life as opposed to staying indoors and just you know, breaking your neck, looking at a phone, things like that. Yeah. So anyway, there is something called the Gen Alpha melody, and it's a YouTuber that says the same chord progression can be found in many Gen Alpha songs. Here are several of his examples. I just want you to hear what this sounds like you might start hearing this, or you may have, and you're like, oh, that's the generation that's got this.

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Don't you want to be like a bunch of babies? Don't you baby like a teacher down? Everything is not you're talking about. It's it's a bad Nobody said, Okay, it's got it. Easy to do, but it's not easy. We'll make it for you.

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Do you notice what it sounds like? A little 80s-ish. Yes. That's not what I thought you were gonna play.

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Shed and you hear that sound that goes. Is that the one we're thinking?

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I thought it was gonna be EDM techno, like bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

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Meow, meow.

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Okay.

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Are you sure you you want to just get a little more out?

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I thought that's what it was gonna be, but this one is is like Yeah, it's fine. A little doctor office, actually.

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I thought I thought it was going, but you're right, there is an 80s vibe to that. There absolutely was. I thought that it was gonna be there is a sound, and it it happens in all the videos that Gavin watches, and I think it's meant to be a breaker, and that's what I thought it was gonna be, like a breaker between one scene and the other.

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And to catch your attention to make sure you have to like snap yourself into attention.

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Uh if I had get your sound effects ready.

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Yeah, I'm ready.

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I'm standing there, I've got dinner out on the island, and there, you know, Gavin's watching a video on the iPad, and and what we're gonna do here now is we're gonna get ready blowing up this she shed, but all of a sudden, if we get it just in the right spot, we're gonna be able to send it to the mood.

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Mew, mew mew, mew, mew, mew. It's a weird although I don't think they have the meow mew mew anymore.

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No, the mew mew mew is gone.

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That's like the mew mew mew, I was more of my generation. Party horn, which I hate. Oh, I'm all a good party horn. No, I will I'll do I'll listen to some EDM house music sometimes when I'm at the gym. Yeah. And when I hear that that party horn. Oh god, I hate it. I'm like, just get that party horn right out of there.

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I find it just greatly unnoxious.

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It's the same as, you know, in the early 2000s, there was another thing that I also hated in songs, and do you know what it was? Dog Child. Remember? Every song would be like, Dog Child.

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No, it's Dark Child.

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I thought it says dog child. No, it's dark child.

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It's a Ja Rule song or whatever.

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No, it's like 19 songs. Yes.

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They're giving a shout out to the producer.

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It could be Beyonce, it could be J Lo, and all of a sudden, is it really Dark Child?

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Yeah, that's that's a shout-out to the producer. Oh God, is it Dark Child or Dog Child? I've I've been I thought it was Dark Child all forever. And I work in this business.

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Oh, the correct phrase is dark child. I thought it was dog child this whole time. Where's my bell? God dang it. Referencing it's the famous producer tag used by Rodney Jerkins. What a name. Wow. Jerkins, he totally got picked on in school. The dog child is a very common misheard lyric that people thought they heard at the start of the late 90s, early 2000s RB. Yes!

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I was right, it was Dark Child.

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Yes. Oh, wait, wait. Listeners frequently. This made my day. Listeners frequently would hear this in Destiny's Child Brandy, Whitney Houston. But some people thought, is it Dog Child? Was it Dark Chow?

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Dark Chow. Dark Chow.

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This is great.

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Yeah. We're like solving mysteries this morning.

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And it became one of the earliest and most iconic producer tags in music history.

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Another great one. Murdering.

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See that one I love. Murdering. I love murdering. Well, of course you do.

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It's also the name of a podcast you'll be watching in two hours.