My understanding of the word banger is it's reserved for good songs. There are many good slow songs as well, but the word banger seems to imply something more intense and bombastic. So, is it appropriate to describe slow songs as a banger?
Yes as long as it has a solid beat and sonic intensity. Look at it this way, not every fast song is a banger. Being a banger doesn’t necessarily have to do with beats per minute.
Gen Z has redefined “banger”. I’m not old man’n here. It’s okay. Every generation does it.
We used to use “that’s banging“ quite a bit in the 90s and my understanding was the musically it was mostly used as “head banging” for heavy music. Again, don’t care how people want to define it today. I’ve still mostly seen it referenced to music that hits you a bit harder than most, but whatever.
Banger isn’t really short for headbanger, though they may have been related at one point. A song doesn’t have to be loud and/or aggressive to be a banger.
Good example! There was a time when “hogwash” literally meant the slop fed to pigs, then it meant cheap liquor, and eventually bad writing. These days it means “BS” and you’d be ridiculous to pretend that “only” the original definition had any meaning.
banger was a shortened term for headbanger. like a person who would nod extremely vigorously, usually with long dramatic hair to a thumping beat, usually hard rock or punk music… then the word started referring to the songs themselves. but language is liquid and words evolve. some people like the word jam for slow songs that make them move.
Yeah I’ve got some Nugget on vinyl, but I got that for a quarter at a garage sale. I’m not giving that douchebag any money. He stays off my streaming playlists.
That being said, not every slow and good song is really a banger. For example, Take Me Somewhere Nice by Mogwai is slow and has a similar driving beat, but it’s nowhere near as saturated or acoustically imposing. It’s more of a “hold your head in your hands and cry”-type of song.
There’s a whole subgenre of D&B called Halftime that’s full of slow (by D&B standards) bangers, as well as plenty Trap, Dubstep, etc that fits the bill.
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