What Is Your Definition Of A Hot Track?

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IMO everyone perceives different elements of a track differently. And the truth is, what may be hot 2 you may not be hot to me. Some people only pay attention to the vocals, then their attention travels over to the beat. For others, its the other way around..

I remember when I was younger I could tell you if the song was dope within the first 10 seconds....and I was usually right.

What catches your ear?

What Is Your Definition Of A Hot Track?

Discuss.
 
Beat catches me, first. I like to listen for a sound or an idea I haven't heard yet. I also like tracks that have more than just the verse/chorus/verse/chorus thing going on.

That said, for me, poor lyrics can ruin a song. Maybe the song will be "hot" - as in, the beat will get you moving one way or another - but I won't call it "great" if the words are shallow.
 
A hot track makes people do this:

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A bad track makes people wanna do this:

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And then this:

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:D
 
IMO there's a difference between a "hot" track, and a "good" track. A hot track will have a beat full of energy, and lyrical ABILITY(delivery, rhyme scheme, etc)(Drake, Lil Wayne, etc). Then a good track is about lyrical CONTENT (the message)(Kendrick Lamar, Lupe Fiasco, etc), and how well it meshes with the instrumental. I believe what a person is saying is more important then how they say it. But I'm not saying a hot track can't be a good track. It definitely can. Jay Electronica comes to mind.
 
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a hot track is subjective. it's whatever you're feeling...not what someone else tells you to expect from a track.
 
it depends on the target audience but since i was a kid i always fell in love with the beat before i actually listen to the lyrics but to me both are important i hate for a song to have a nasty beat but yet the lyrics suck seems like a wasted track 2 me
 
When an instrument and the lyrics/concept go so perfectly together you couldn't imagine anything else being done with it
 
It's all apart of where you at and the music around you. If you a follower of others also. Somewhere in the world some gangstas ride around bumping some hardcore house shit saying "**** the radio". But if they played that shit somewhere else people would think they were homo. Somewhere in the world all they have is the radio to tell them what is good music. They are not fortunate to have local outlaws of the industry.....the ones that people usually care less about or just dog them out and say "rappers in our city all suck". Somewhere in the world someone is famous in their town for making the best music with pots and pans. I would listen to a song and wonder how in the hell could someone not feel it......but it's the same as a yodel fan wondering why in the hell his favorite yodeler could not be considered for album of the year. I still can't believe it's people that think 2Pac was not a good rapper...or that these Odd Future dudes are great (no hate just ain't feeling them). But it is what it is.
 
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Some songs that used to be "Hot" don't seem so hot if you listen to them years later... some 'em make you ask yourself how you ever even liked them in the first place...

Some songs stay HOT forever... like I ain't no joke and Love's gonna get you, etc...

There are individually HOT songs and then there are consensual HOT songs and those are the ones that heat up the radio. Right now, you need that European dance stuff that PitBull and Flo Rida do to take over the radio in most markets... I can't bring myself to do anything like that. People hate on Trap but Trap isn't on the radio.... so these people must be actually looking for it themselves.
 
A song that brings some kind of excitement and sets you in a mood. But it's all personal.
Those kind of songs will usually excite most in a similar mood because we are all pretty much similar. Sometimes it doesn't.

Whether it's a club song, love song, etc. doesn't matter.
 
Heavy Lyrical content with a dope beat that has all the speakers shakin. Head boppin, homies requestin who's it by, and requestin to play that song when they come over.
 
Guess it depends on what the concept of a song is. If it's a club song, I guess it depends on how catchy the hook is and how mesmerizing the beat is. Lyrics would come third.

If it's a song that actually has meaning, lyrics first, beat second and so on.
 
if the track has soul it's hot to me

a lot of R&B singers nowadays don't even have soul though
 
snarerolls/ hi hat rolls, and crazy hi hat patterns wit a good melody.
 
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