Slides from my December 2016 TEDx Talk at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. I discussed patterns in music and pop culture and their broader implications for society. You can find the full video of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTvwM6S9vxI And you can find the original viral Millennial Whoop essay here: https://thepatterning.com/2016/08/20/the-millennial-whoop-a-glorious-obsession-with-the-melodic-alternation-between-the-fifth-and-the-third/

1. Kevin Edwards

2. Rob Sinclair

4. Ali Shaker/VOA Donald Bray

5. Tabercil Glenn Francis

6. Kerosene Photography Issimo 15

7. ThePatterning.com

8. Uber’s Announcement of Self-Driving Cars (2016)
Pavo Pavo – “Ran Ran Run” (2016)
Skechers – “Twinkle Toes” (2016)
conner4real - "F**k Off" (2016)
Frank Ocean – “Ivy” (2016)
Dagny – “Backbeat” (2016)
AURORA – “Running With the Wolves” (2016)
AURORA – “Conqueror” (2016)
Berlin After Midnight – “All Night Long” (2016)
Oh Wonder – “Without You” (2015)
twenty one pilots – Ride (2015)
Dance Gavin Dance – “Stroke God, Millionaire” (2015)
Sabrina Carpenter - "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying" (2015)
Tove Lo – “Habits (Stay High)” (2014)
Of Monsters and Men – “Mountain Sound” (2014)
Andy Grammer – “Forever” (2014)
Fifth Harmony – “Anything Is Possible” (2014)
Stonefox – “All I Want” (2013)
Demi Lovato – “I Really Don’t Care” (2013)
CHVRCHES – “The Mother We Share” (2013)
American Authors – “Best Day of My Life” (2013)
Filter – “Burn It” (2013)
Imagine Dragons – “Monster” (2013)
Carly Rae Jepsen & Owl City - “Good Time” (2012)
One Direction – “Heart Attack” (2012)
One Direction – “Live While We’re Young” (2012)
The Lumineers – “Ho Hey” (2012)
Conner Youngblood – “A Summer Song” (2012)
Rebecca Black – “Sing It” (2012)
Chris Brown – “Turn Up the Music” (2012)
BOY – “Little Numbers” (2011)
Big Tree – “Storm King” (2011)
Outasight – “Tonight Is the Night” (2011)
The Head and the Heart – “Down in the Valley” (2011)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “And We Danced” (2011)
Katy Perry & Snoop Dogg - “California Gurls” (2010)
Justin Bieber – “Baby (featuring Ludacris)” (2010)
Ally Burnett - “Ah, It’s a Love Song” (2010)
Michou – “Growing Younger” (2010)
Alejandro Sanz & Alicia Keys – “Looking for Paradise”
(2010)
Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody” (2009)
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “And The Hazy Sea” (2009)
Little Boots – “Remedy” (2009)
Fall Out Boy – “She’s My Winona” (2008)
Mates of State – “Goods” (2007)
Green Day – “Are We the Waiting” (2004)
Death Cab for Cutie – “Lightness” (2003)
The Rasmus – “In the Shadows” (2003)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Maps” (2003)
Smurfehits – “Tenker på deg” (1996)
The KLF – “Last Train to Trancentral” (1991)
Baltimora – “Tarzan Boy” (1985)
Madness – “Wings of a Dove” (1984)
Morris Day and the Time – “Jungle Love” (1984)
The Millennial Whoop

9. Masao Nakagami
Hyacinth

10. Metromedia
Records Kugland

11. Rowland Sherman/US Information Agency Al Aumuller/New York World-Telegram and the Sun Victor Talking Machine Company
Prints & Photographs Department, MSRC|
Gerard von Honthorst

12. Coldplay - “Viva La Vida” (2008)
Cat Stevens - “Foreigner Suite” (1973)
Mireille Mathieu & Patrick Duffy - “Together We’re Strong” (1983)
Survivor - “I Can’t Hold Back” (1984)
Jermaine Jackson – “When the Rain Begins to Fall” (1984)
Alexandru Andries - “Cea mai frumoasa zi” (2000)
Dido - “Thank You” (2000)
Enanitos Verdes - “Frances Limon” (2002)
Joe Satriani - “If I Could Fly” (2004)
Reamonn - “Tonight” (2006)
Creaky Boards - “The Songs I Didn’t Write” (2008)
Britney Spears – “Hold it Against Me” (2011)
Yahoo! Blog

13. I - V - vi - IV
Journey – “Don’t Stop Believing”
James Blunt – “You’re Beautiful”
Alphaville – “Forever Young”
Jason Mraz – “I’m Yours”
Mika – “Happy Ending”
Alex Lloyd – “Amazing”
The Calling – “Wherever You Will Go”
Elton John – “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”
Maroon 5 – “She Will Be Loved”
The Last Goodnight – “Pictures Of You”
U2 – “With Or Without You”
Crowded House – “Fall At Your Feet”
Kasey Chambers – “Not Pretty Enough”
The Beatles – “Let it Be”
Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Under the Bridge”
Daryl Braithwaite – “The Horses”
Bob Marley – “No Woman No Cry”
Marcy Playground – “Sex and Candy”
Men At Work – “Land Down Under”
Banjo Patterson - “Waltzing Matilda”
A Ha – “Take On Me”
Green Day – “When I Come Around”
Eagle Eye Cherry – “Save Tonight”
Toto – “Africa”
Beyonce – “If I Were A Boy”
The Offspring – “Self Esteem”
The Offspring – “You’re Gonna Go Far Kid”
Pink – “You and Your Hand”
Lady Gaga – “Poker Face”
Aqua – “Barbie Girl”
The Fray – “You Found Me”
30h!3 – “Don’t Trust Me”
MGMT – “Kids”
Tim Minchin – “Canvas Bags”
Natalie Imbruglia – “Torn”
Five For Fighting – “Superman”
Axis Of Awesome – “Birdplane"
Missy Higgins – “Scar”
Axis of Awesome - “Four Chords”
Pachelbel - "Canon in D"
Vitamin C - "Graduation"
Aerosmith - "Crying"
Coven - “One Tin Soldier”
Blues Traveler - "Hook"
Green Day - "Basket Case"
Matchbox 20 - "Push"
Better Than Ezra - "Good"
Bush - "Machinehead"
U2 - “With or Without You”
Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn"
Avril Lavigne - "Sk8er Boi"
Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna' Take It"
Gimbel & Fox - “Making Our Dreams Come True”
Bob Marley - “No Woman, No Cry”
The Beatles - “Let it be”
Rob Paravonian - “Pachelbel Ran

14. Google, Inc.

15. Wallpoper

16. Wallpoper

17. Wallpoperjosullivan.59

18. WallpoperDartmouth Electron Microscope Facility, Dartmouth College

19. The Opte Project

20. WallpoperTore Sætre

21. Wallpoper

22. Wallpopermicadew

23. Thank You