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So what is next? (music)

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Yngwie 4String

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I feel like the music of today is really stagnant. I feel like the newer bands arent moving forward or experimenting. On this site I see a lot more discussion centered on improving old techniques, which is important, but I think we need to talk about how to move forward. How do we break new ground? Im ready for the next Black Sabbath, or the next Van Halen, or even the next Nirvana, some band to just blow the doors totally wide open again. So does anyone have any theories on what a band would need to do these days to push things forward? I honestly dont have an opinion yet.:eek:
 
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4StringFury said:
I feel like the music of today is really stagnant. I feel like the newer bands arent moving forward or experimenting. On this site I see a lot more discussion centered on improving old techniques, which is important, but I think we need to talk about how to move forward. How do we break new ground? Im ready for the next Black Sabbath, or the next Van Halen, or even the next Nirvana, some band to just blow the doors totally wide open again. So does anyone have any theories on what a band would need to do these days to push things forward? I honestly dont have an opinion yet.:eek:
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Dream Theater. They will redefine heavy metal. :D
 
#15
Chris2112 said:
Mind you, I think The Killers get better every day, definitely one worth watching!
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I agree, and they're all over the genre, from techno-rock to 80's pop-ish stuff to harder rock to alt.

Really, I think the answer to OP's question is that some genre that's currently towards the fringes will be "discovered" by a major pop artist or label and be "digested" into something more acceptable by the masses. Types of bands and the music they produce will make a surge and then fall into the background, to resurge later in a new style. "Old-school" rap a la LL Cool J and Fresh Prince was popular in the early 80's, then fell from favor for a while, then came back with gangsta rap. Even now it's redefining itself; a lot of the artists are going "cuss-free" and "drug-free" so the end product is more suitable for radio, and sounds more intelligent on top of that. Electronic dance music dates all the way back to disco (yes, ravers, you're listening to the offspring of your parents' embarassing dance music). Disco faded from grace rather quickly as the '80's started, but those DJ's went underground and practically redeveloped the genre into House, which then spawned Techno and Trance. These genres enjoyed a huge burst in the mid-late '90's when Madonna and other pop artists latched on to the idea and made it more lyrical (traditional electronica has always been a bit repetitive, which gives the DJ room for improv). Rock's kind of held a steady course since the Beatles introduced America to modern rock styles, but it's reinvented itself in several sub-genres which each gave the entire genre a boost: acid rock in the late 60's and early 70's, hair metal and punk in the '80's, alt and grunge in the '90's, to hardcore. Reggae was unknown until Bob Marley, then when he died the genre faded back into obscurity until some artists mixed elements of the style with punk to become ska. Almost all of these genres started out pretty much underground, unknown by pop culture, until the style found a poster boy who pushed the music to the forefront.
 
#18
There is a commercial for iPod nano where a music video is playing. A young woman is singing. A stack of different colored units disappear to show all the color selections. Anyway this woman is singing this song - very simple but wild and creative style that I've never heard before. Whatever this style is, I would say it has a future.
 
#20
sound music.

everyday sounds timed so they make a beat.

people will classify the different genres by where the sounds come from. For example: city sound, forest sound, office sound, porno sound and so on.

this will culminate in the development of "nature sound" where people just hang around and listen to the ambient noise of the environment.

shortly after this, the pastafarians will be shocked as the flying spaghetti monster ushers in a tomato flavored armageddon.

In a seriousness I have no idea what wacky brand of music will get the public favor next.
 

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