Ariana Grande, Jason Derulo, and Macklemore are using squawking, klezmer-like loops to win over the world. Here’s why it works. View this image › Kevin Winters / Getty Pop’s well of summer hits has sprung, and it’s full of saxophone. A big, honking loop opens Ariana Grande’s “Problem,” the first single from the 20-year-old singer…
Is there anything less Yiddish than rap music? Still, Scott Bradlee and the Postmodern Jukebox was somehow able to merge the Jason Derulo and 2 Chainz hit rap single Talk Dirty with vintage Klezmer-style Yiddish music. “Klezmer” is of course the music style of traditional Eastern European Jewry. Vocalist Robyn even threw in some authentic Yiddish into their performance. The resulting cover…