10's: The New Generation Of Music

[Viola Moonlight]

Quite simply, what do you expect to happen when 2010 to 2020 for the next in-thing music generation?

What will rise? What will fall?
And what would be the genre to conquer them all?

Note: It is a rhyme in reference to music... get it? No... yes... who cares? Ohkay then...

Obviously the emo fad will fall into the dust along with the emo music... but from the trends following from the 90's to 00's, there wasn't as much of a transition as like the 60's-70's, 70's-80's, 80's-90's.

So what do you think?

 

[Nitafrong]

Hey hey No real idea about what the future 10's will bring but my feeling anyway it that it will lead to a more stripped down version of music. Currently a lot of bands have a lot of additional electronic additions to their music. How many bands the in last year have you heard compared as the "New MGMT" ? If you listen a lot of popular music is like this, blending the line between radio and dance music. My thoughts are that this will likely increase to more and more complicated levels until finally leading to a violent breakout of simple emotional music, as Grunge did in the early 90's or the Punks kind of did in the late 60's (I don't think they broke away from complicated music as much did they- I only have a vague idea of this time)

That’s the only thing I can think of at the moment- music tends to move from year to year- the emo goth fad which you speak so highly of ) ) I would say hasn't really been present for the last two years, currently we are in the midst of the female electronic artist- at least in the UK anyway, with artists such as Lady Gaga, La Roux and Little Boots.

The only point I would make is that (at least in my onion) there has been quite a large difference in the music between the 90's and the 00's. In the 90's you had the rise and strength of grunge, and then Britpop and a general focus not over complication. You also had the rise of very innocent bubble gum and boy and girl band pop (rise- reformation more like ) Metal and hard rock went through a decidedly fallow period before starting to rise at the close of the decade before its explosion in the years surrounding the end of the 90's and the start of the 00's.

The 00's carried this new metal for a while before turning back to rap, r'n'b and more mainstream rock fare, leading to as you said "emo/goth" and then to an increased dance edge to most of the pop music. The point I think you were making which was valid- was in these past generations, each decade was clearly characterised by a single style of music which was radically different from the decade before. These last two decades we haven’t really had this, moving every couple of years to different styles.

(I think that all makes sense- I get the impression that what I have said is a load of nonsense- but its what I feel at the moment anyway )

 

[ShockTheMonkey223]

Obviously the emo/goth fad will fall into the dust along with the emo music

Please tell me you really didn't just group Goth and Emo together...Not to be a music snob but if you're going to start a topic on the subject, you should at least be somewhat knowledgeable. Besides being offshoots of punk, the two have nothing in common and have both been dead genres for quite some time. The media, for whatever reason, uses "goth" and "emo" to define any band with a "dark" image but neither genre has had any new bands enter the scene for many years and the originals that are still around have altered their sound.

But as far as what's in store for the next deacde, I'm sure there won't be much of a change. Teen Pop, Rap, Retro-Rock, and Pop-Rock will most likely continue to reign supreme.

 

[Hacksaw Highway]

I'm thinking metal may get a bit more popular again, as by now bands like Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Children of Bodom and Mastodon have built up bigger fan bases and none of them seem to be slowing down. Rap will probably only get bigger as well, I don't see any reason for it's momentum to taper off. Other than that, it is tough to say. I also agree the emo (or whatever you want to call it) scene with Fallout Boy, Panic at the Disco, MCR, and the like will probably blow over, it did seem like a fad to begin with and it's alreadt slowed down somewhat.

 

[My$terio_Fan]

Well for the first 2-3 years I can see electro-pop/dance being big still. With Lady GaGa blowing up, and "old" acts like Christina Augilera, Beyonce, and Britney all going into that direction I think pop/dance will stay quiet big.

I can also see more country/pop being big. With the rise of Taylor Swift, I can see alot more country acts swaying towards a poppier sound. Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts, even Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, and Sugarland may all go towards an even more poppy country.

Emo is pretty much already dead now, so I think unless it comes back, it's over for a while. Falloutboy, MCR, Panic at the Disco all flopped and aren't as commerically successful as they were before.

I can also see the tween pop genre dying down eventually. I think Jonas Brother, Demi Lavato, Ashley Tisdale will all fade out, and people like Miley Cyrus are already going towards a more mature sound.

I'd like to say the Auto-tune fad will fade, but seeing how guys like Kanye/T-Pain/Lil Wayne are all hugely successful, I doubt it. Music will probably just get more computerized and programmed.

 

[X]

I'm really at a loss for words when you guys keep saying that emo is dead.

A) Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and bands like those are not, I repeat NOT emo! AT ALL!

B) The emo/screamo/metalcore scene is the largest it has ever been! It's absolutely THRIVING right now, and there are huge scenes all over the country! How exactly is the genre dying? True emo has never graced the pop charts to begin with, so I fail to see how a band like Fall Out Boy (which again, isn't emo, even remotely) becoming less popular will affect a genre it has nothing to do with.

Seriously, I laugh when you guys say emo is dead. It's bigger than it's ever been before, actually, and it will continue to grow and expand just like any other subgenre.

 

[Hacksaw Highway]

I used the word emo because frankly I don't know what to call MCR, FOB, PATD, and that scene. When I said emo was dying, I meant those types of bands, not whatever you meant.

 

[X]

I used the word emo because frankly I don't know what to call MCR, FOB, PATD, and that scene. When I said emo was dying, I meant those types of bands, not whatever you meant.

Those type of bands are called modern rock. Simply singing "emotional" lyrics doesn't make you an emo band; it's a specific subgenre of punk rock that has pretty much had it's name raped by ignorant music journalists. This is emo:

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Now, does that sound like Fall Out Boy?

Sorry, I just hate it when people call bands like FOB emo without any knowledge whatsoever about the genre. Emo is going just as strong as ever and is thriving in New England especially, with big scenes in every state.

 

[Hacksaw Highway]

My bad. I didn't really know what to call those bands, like I said, so I just stuck on the term I hear used the most.