Rock music is still chugging along with bands like Foo Fighters and RHCP filling huge venues.
Dance music continues to go from strength to strength.
Punk is specialist. Jazz is specialist.
The phrase "alternative" doesn't make as much sense today as it used to.
What will music sound like in the 2020s? Do you believe art, like fashion, is cyclical? Are we in for a grunge revival? Will popular music get faster or slower? Do drugs have an effect on the zeitgeist?
Grunge revival. No doubt. Its sound has even made its way into metallica's new album.
Lucas Collins
>caring about popular music Wew
James Gray
What do you mean by specialist
Josiah Davis
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Cameron Bell
Only people with special interests tastes listen to it
Chase Collins
current zeitgeist is shit
Anthony Morris
>What will music sound like in the 2020s?
nu-metal revival breakcore revival emo revival
Jaxon Hughes
>a 2016 release from a washed up thrash band is a good litmus test for predicting the future of music
Parker Martin
no more revivals-revival
Samuel Garcia
just wait for all the baby boomers to die off friend the leftists won't have anyone left to whine about besides the ringleaders, rather than their current stance of complaining about the easily led populace. maybe we might actually get some change in twenty years or so
Jeremiah Watson
>the leftists
Angel Butler
It's going into the trash is where it's going. No more refreshing ideas are left.
Landon Thomas
are you kidding me? The weird frontier and such is the future albums like this is whats gonna become the norm nextwwwings.bandcamp.com/album/phoenixxx
were gonna get electronic versions of grunge,metal and such opn has already experimented with it on G.O.D.
academia music is on the rise also
Josiah Reed
"the leftists" being american centrist neo-liberals, naturally. I'll better wait for all the murricans and their dumbass ideology to die off friend youtube.com/watch?v=49koBNWIuy4
Josiah Hall
REAL TRAP SHIT
Liam Ross
Post punk revival needs to come back
Lucas Lee
Legitimately talented tier OPN
Displays some talent tier Ferraro
Mediocre tier Blunt
reddit tier Orca
Jeremiah Morales
What seems to be happening is a lot of new acts that are still small are hacking their way through. They aren't in my country particularly famous. (I do ask people on the street, get the vibe, what goes on)
As these smaller acts build up a fan base (someone knows lil yachty who speaks to someone who buys the 1975 both know who rag n bone man is) it will create a connected audience through music taste
The bigger the crowd gets for these still quite small bands, well
It coagulates the crowd untill someone else comes along, sets it all fire and rips through all these audiences and then everyone has heard of them
That is someone that is 15 now trying to get served booze at the moment, but that's my best guess
What the music will be god knows, it's not really that important
Jayden Ward
I've noticed that the EDM with hard drops and obnoxious synths isn't really big in pop music anymore. Most of the trendy new stuff is more minimal and trap-influenced. Even """indie""" pop and singer-songwriter follows a slow and trap-influenced style. I wish we could get a techno revival but I doubt it, I imagine the synthwave sound will work its way into pop (I picked up some influence on the new Weeknd album), while rappers will keep making shitty R&B/dancehall until that trend dies.
I doubt rock will come back anytime soon. Even the actual indie rock bands in my area are either incorporating electronics or just hounding Meme Demarco
Colton Miller
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Jose Bailey
fashion has followed a 17-20 year cycle for over half a century (and probably longer), it isn't going to stop now
it's literally a result of human reproductive lifespan and drinking age etc
I feel like that 90s Jazz/Hip Hop might return, Childish Gambino's 2020 album could be a comeback to that with a Kimasi Washington collab that starts it all. Maybe intellectualism could dominate hip hop for a couple years.
Rock and EDM needs to fuse, people need to get that normal rock is dead and stuff like Europe's Final Countdown is what ironic millennials like so why not just new tracks like that?
Jungle needs to make a comeback in EDM.
Generation Z will be such a hilariously conservative generation that Classical will become huge and we might even see Gregorian Chants make a comeback or instead Nasheeds.
Ethan Jackson
But with actual content. The best models would be Wire, or at least Magazine. I like JD, but when people tried to imitate them, they had a narrow idea of what they wanted to achieve, based mostly on the superficial aesthetic of the model band, and not so much on musical ideas.
Alexander Murphy
dont worry bro thats my post too
Justin Lee
>jungle >EDM
Henry Nguyen
>Maybe intellectualism could dominate hip hop for a couple years. holy shit are you literally saying jazz samples=intelligent
Dominic Sullivan
this shit insane sounds like arca+amnesia scanner+trap and i like it
Levi Reyes
next wave will be an inverse of the late 80s/early 90s, with hip hop breaking free from the "money first" view that has kept "alternative hip hop" from really erupting (as rock did after the hair metal craze), while rock (specifically something rooted in punk) goes through a creative renaissance (as hip hop did during the golden age). Whether or not it will be labelled a "grunge revival" remains to be seen, but it will sound only vaguely similar so I hope not.
touring bands may finally become financially viable as well
Brandon Phillips
The industrial/synthpunk revival is on its way, no doubt.
Even without guitar-based music in the mainstream, there's still an audience for dark, angry shit that isn't rap. With the political scene being what it is now there's probably even more of an opening for that kind of cultural iconoclast.
Ryder Evans
Breaks / bboy hip hop is doing just fine already m8
I think your timeframe may be a little off but I agree with this. It's late in the decade, whoever owns the next 10 years is already doin their thing.
>tfw it probably wont be me
Hunter Reyes
no user thats my post
Nathaniel Watson
most retarded post of the year, congrats
Parker Roberts
Well, heck! I'll just ask for permission when I decide to copypaste a random reddit post next time
Parker Butler
music is gonna go VR baby
also guitar solos will be cool again
Ian Evans
music just like film and literature has run off it's course
music just like film and literature is already archaic and will die in the near future
video games and virtual simulations reality which combine elements of the three will be the future of art and humanity
Brandon Mitchell
*virtual reality simulations
Logan Baker
you're already in one
Zachary Rogers
im talking about cutting edge underground shit
dudes like xxxtentacion, wiki, etc etc who all have huge talent but also seem to ckearly look at it as "money first"
Owen Parker
none of those are cutting edge underground
Adam Taylor
I doubt it , there's still five years still to go to set off the 20's or longer. Might not come till much later if the war escalates I think the rest of this decade is treading water BUT I MIGHT BE WRONG
Eli Roberts
it will be something like that, but even tougher, considering the fact that the world's becoming a tougher, more violent and more unfriendly place at a frightening pace youtube.com/watch?v=0xINZ7zMtaI but don't worry, there still will be huge pop acts that will try to maintain a steadily dwindling illusion of security
Adrian Lewis
Taytay will release the best pop album of the 10's and Sup Forums will have a meltdown about admitting to like it or nor.
Xavier Gomez
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Mason Gonzalez
look at the past few big cultural revolutions, they all had their roots late in one decade and blew up rapidly the next
Nirvana started in 86 or 87, grunge blew up in the early 90s
punk, post punk, and new wave bands started popping up in the mid-late 70s, and these trends then came to define the 80s as well as give birth to alternative rock
Ian Bailey
Hip-hop artists will continue incorporating features of rock into their music (like Lil Uzi, XXXtentacion, and Lil Peep do), and rap as a whole will become more rock-like and alternative, but pure rock will continue to die out.
Elijah Perez
>i only listen to big names
Brody Rogers
I think the rules changed with the millenium really And anyway, whoever blows up big may only be 15 now, while some older kids in their 20s are the ones getting the field ripe for reaping
