◇ image via WikipediaCruel Youth
Cruel Youth is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Bobby Hebb. Those roots explain a lot about how Cruel Youth arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bonnie McKee, Ellie Goulding, Ivy Levan, Nicola Roberts and Marina, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kiiara and Conway the Machine, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Cruel Youth, reaching back through Bobby Hebb and forward to Kiiara. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Cruel Youth connections
Cruel Youth grew out of Bobby Hebb, shares an orbit with Bonnie McKee, Ellie Goulding, Ivy Levan and Nicola Roberts, went on to shape Kiiara and Conway the Machine. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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