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Cymbals Eat Guitars’ 2009 song “And The Hazy Sea” includes a specific musical pattern. That pattern consists of two alternating notes sung over and over with “wa” and “oh” sounds, resulting in a sequence of “Wa-oh-wa-oh.” This pattern showed up in so many pop songs in the 2000s and 2010s that eventually it earned a nickname, “the millennial whoop.” The whoop showed up so frequently that some musicians and critics felt it had grown irritating.
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The millennial whoop could be annoying. Not every pop song needs “Wa-oh-wa-ohs!” and it seemed as though nearly every pop song released between 2000 and 2017 had them. But the whoop could also be genuinely fun or even moving. Too many songwriters used it in too many pop songs for a time, but that doesn’t mean the whoop was never used well.
Cymbals Eat Guitars’ 2009 song “And The Hazy Sea” includes a specific musical pattern. That pattern consists of two alternating notes sung over and over with “wa” and “oh” sounds, resulting in a sequence of “Wa-oh-wa-oh.” This pattern showed up in so many pop songs in the 2000s and 2010s that eventually it earned a nickname, “the millennial whoop.” The whoop showed up so frequently that some musicians and critics felt it had grown irritating.
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The millennial whoop could be annoying. Not every pop song needs “Wa-oh-wa-ohs!” and it seemed as though nearly every pop song released between 2000 and 2017 had them. But the whoop could also be genuinely fun or even moving. Too many songwriters used it in too many pop songs for a time, but that doesn’t mean the whoop was never used well.