
Rap absorbed new strains-emo, industrial, folk, UK dance, R&B-and spit out not only hybdrists like Drake but the inescapable trap snare.

The indie floodgates broke as auteurs like Lorde made it cool to be arty and reflective. A riot of dance pulse spilled forth from collab-happy DJ/producers as varied as big-tent titan Calvin Harris and subgenre scholar Diplo. The song-to-song variety that ruled the previous decade’s parties morphed into one bottomless genre-well that each successive cut drank from. Genre: Pop, Rock, R&B, Dance, Rap/Hip HopĪ ’10s dance floor sounds like the experience of living in this fully plugged-in era: everything’s happening all the time.
