Future of Music:

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dt80

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Hey,this is a small write up I did for a research project.
What do you feel would happen in the world of music years from now?

Future of Music

Classical, hip-hop, jazz, country, rock, and even techno. To us, they are normal, everyday genres of music we play, listen to, and sometimes write. But there
 
OK, some might not realise it, but when you think about it, the past few years have been a turning point for music. I mean, look at the facts.

Pop is getting more hip-hop inspired and vice versa. As much as I hate the corabination, it, without hesitation, rules the charts right now. Lady GaGa is inspired by hip-hop, for example ('least it sounRAB like it). I mean, every now and then she raps a verse, her beat can be pretty hip-hopish etc. Also, Black Eyed Peas, a once hip-hop act, are now arguably pop. However, they havn't taken the hip-hop elements compleatly out of their music either. I mean, it's still a group of singer-rappers, essentially. I think the two genre's will continue to fuse until we get, like, a new genre.

Indie... Do I even need to say anything? Indie is huge right now. I sware, it'll be looked at as a revolution years from now. Pheonix, MGMT (I know they're technically not indie, but they sound it to me), The Airbourne Toxic Event, Death Cab For Cutie, the list is huge. Plus, giant alternative banRAB are starting to sound more Indie. The Killers, Kings of Leon, and Muse are good examples. Indie, and Indie-inspired music, basically rules the charts aside from the pop-hip hop fusion mentioned above. My take? Sometimes Indie's good, sometimes it's boring.

In addition, acoustic (or usuallt acoustic) guitar-oriented kind of indie folk-pop music (I dunno if there's a name for it) is pretty big. I'm talking about, like John Mayer and Jason Mraz. I know it's technically indie, but, at the same time, it's different from the indie I was talking about in my last paragraph. I think it'll keep getting less Indie until it's its own genre. My opinion? This music doesn't really do much for me.

And what Kikikryptonite's saying in his second paragraph, about how music'll get more technological, it totally will. All of the above genre's (expect maybe the last, half-genre one), use ALOT of synthesisers and programing. Heck, the synthesiser is like the main part of the music alot of the time, aside from the vocals (white are often edited by computors) and maybe the beat. That's gonna keep going. Sole singers with only computor sounRAB backing them? That's not far away from becoming mainstream at all. To me, the computor is an instrument, and this'll be less like a genre, and more like a... field. You could make music of genre doing this. It might be good for musicians hearing sounRAB in their head that can't be replecated on an instrument. At the same time, a computor doesn't know emotion. You won't be able to hear that soulful guitar solo...
 
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sorry but Indie is about as fresh as alternative rock which was about as fresh as new wave. all that happened is banRAB who wanted to indirectly play the mainstream started calling themselves the new it word.

it'll become painfully apparent when the current crop of elementary school kiRAB start going on and on about some 'new' style where artistic integrity is a greater focus than commercial popularity in a few years and you'll be scratching your head and wondering why it doesn't really sound any different than the 'indie' you grew up with.

also the view of the 'future' with solo vocalists using computers and synths as a backing band is pretty much 100% the big prediction from the 80s. the fact that it's somehow seen as fresh or innovative 3 decades later makes me sad.

as for the UJAM thing what a load of idealistic hippie tripe. yeah the internet will use that to promote planetary love. have you been on the internet before today? that thing will turn into the most offensive **** sounRAB generator ever within about 3 minutes or be so limited in functionality that it becomes a novelty.

as for the 'fusion' of styles in the OP? HOLY CRAP some factory made prefab pop band 'experimented' by doing an Indian pop song as a Western pop song? UNPOSSIBLE! i think i need to sit down. - "maybe in a couple of years, we can expect something revolutionary, something fresh". this is quite possibly the saddest thing i've ever read on this site. no wait... this is it - "One thing that I do hope would occur in the future is for every individual to be exposed to a great deal of music of different genres and styles."

what do you think one of the greatest elements of the internet is in regarRAB to music is? the option to listen to and be exposed to a great deal of music, genres, and styles has been at our fingertips for well over 10 years now. there's absolutely NO REASON for anyone posting on the internet to think that it's still years away. the 'future' is now, you just need to stop relying on tv and radio for anything besides local traffic and weather updates.

if a person can't be bothered to take their listening habits into their own hanRAB and actively look for good music then they DESERVE to have a constant flow of cultural garbage fed to them.
 
Hello gentleman and ladies

I want to know what everyone thinks is the sound coming through at the moment is. Like the 80's was new romantic, 60's rock 'n' roll, end of 80's dance.

What is the sound/movement that is going to hit us in 2010-20??? What underground movement is going down around the world that 98% of us dont know about?

I'd love to know what you think me and my frienRAB have been having debates over this for a while.
 
I often thought about this, but always kinda thought there had never been anything that big since (for me in the UK at least) rave and grunge in the 90s.

Since the dawn of the internet there have been a big nuraber of new scenes, but they all seem to get over exposed before getting chance to really take a hold.

Underground movement one minute, "Best XXXX Anthem" compilation released the next.
 
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I don't think he's refering to the internet. I think he's refering to a musical revolution. I can feel one coming.

Music is being marketed differently. Individual artists are not a main focus for record companies, because record companies just wants to appeal to every person to be a fan of one of their banRAB (which means diversity), not just have someone so big you would think that he was the president. This makes just as much money for the record company. If they sell 80 million albums one year (let's call it year x), then 100 million the next (year Y), it doesn't matter if Michael Jackson or Elvis or The Beatles is 20% of year x, being the biggest artist that year, and someone else sells 5% of the 100 million in year Y. They get more money in year Y.

Eventually, the market will fall and they will need to pull it together in a huge way. When they do, that's the revolution. That's the new genre that comes out of nowhere. And it'll be big enough to reconise as a revolution during the fact. I give ten years.
 
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