How TikTok Hijacked The Future Of Music - Nik Nocturnal - #1095
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 139 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How big of an impact do you think TikTok has played in shaping the way that modern metal music sounds now? |
| 0:06.1 | Oh, it has a pretty big impact because all the young kids growing up right now on TikTok. |
| 0:12.5 | And I remember, you know, even when I started YouTube, that was like a newer thing. |
| 0:16.4 | People were discovering music through YouTube. |
| 0:18.0 | I discovered a lot of like the big bands I listened to growing up through YouTube. And that was like unheard of. You know, it was like no matter what it was usually all on the radio or like, I don't know, your brother gave you like a cassette or like a CD. So that was already such a new thing. There was kids discovering music through the internet. And I mean, MySpace, YouTube, I mean, Facebook to some capacity after that. So TikTok was |
| 0:40.3 | kind of just that next generation of people scrolling and whatever they might be doing, |
| 0:44.6 | doom scrolling or just, you know, I don't try to find cooking recipes. And then all of a sudden, |
| 0:49.6 | you know, if they like music in any capacity, or any of, even if they don't, you know, they hear a |
| 0:53.3 | sound. And they're like |
| 0:55.4 | this is cool and a lot of things with modern metal is there's a lot of good clip moments usually with |
| 1:02.6 | modern metal particularly um you know whether it's the breakdown or the other breakdown or the |
| 1:08.5 | crazy vocal moment um or even on the guitar so crazy guitar moment |
| 1:12.1 | or drum moment right there's a lot of musicianship and like unique uh attributes that kind of go into |
| 1:19.1 | that skill in in terms of like metal as a genre so like when you're able to just like kind of clip |
| 1:24.1 | farm some things like that and be like oh oh, like here's the best part. |
| 1:44.7 | And you instantly get a payoff versus most people you have to listen to the whole song or like, you know, in a minute and a half until the breakdown happens. So TikTok, I think, really enforces that where people will be scrolling. And they'll just hear like this crazy noise or breakdown or some dude screaming and doing goblin noises. and it'll be like, oh, I want more of this. |
| 1:47.6 | You know, you instantly get hit with the punch line. |
| 1:44.4 | It's like watching a horror movie and only |
| 1:48.8 | getting hit with the jump scare. So it's, you instantly get kind of intrigued. And I think that has |
| 1:53.7 | really helped push metal into a bigger kind of more just normalized audience. Look at the state of can |
| 1:59.4 | you feel my heart. Look at the state of that |
| 2:02.5 | bring me track, which if anybody listened to that album when it came out, it was good, it was good |
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