Worried about the future mainstream music

[Dakota]

What do you think the future music industry, just concern with music, will be like in 2011,2012, 2013, 2014....

[Jacklinger]

It will sound something like this:
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Singing is going to be old hat. Everyone will listen to post-rock computer generated toybox tunes because their generation will have no unified spirit or beliefs.

And after that.... classical music will become cool again. And the 400 year cycle will be complete.

[Dakota]

It will sound something like this:
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Singing is going to be old hat. Everyone will listen to post-rock computer generated toybox tunes because their generation will have no unified spirit or beliefs.

And after that.... classical music will become cool again. And the 400 year cycle will be complete.

To be honest I was thinking something like that would happen as well, but I think that will serve more as the background music for singing. That's a pretty big transistion, I think the 2020s might be more like that, then the current-nearfuture one, since the younger generation for the early-midlate 2010s (I count people 9-13 yrs right now to be in that group) are transistioning out of the Disney mania and saw the current crop of popelectro singers come (probably go too). Urban pop/rb expiration date should be soon, like all music genres, and electropop should be old by the end of this year unless it does not change to something new.

Pure classical will never come in popular youth style again, since it's already mainstream enough to last centuries, but music evolves to fit the landscape of the youth. Unless there is a way to fuse classical music with electronic music.

I think there's going to be a fusion of something like that song with a voice, but I can't picture it yet, since that song sounds too slow. People like fast music, music to dance too.

Who is Isan?

[Jacklinger]

To be honest I was thinking something like that would happen as well, but I think that will serve more as the background music for singing. That's a pretty big transistion, I think the 2020s might be more like that, then the current-nearfuture one, since the younger generation for the early-midlate 2010s (I count people 9-13 yrs right now to be in that group) are transistioning out of the Disney mania and saw the current crop of popelectro singers come (probably go too). Urban pop/rb expiration date should be soon, like all music genres, and electropop should be old by the end of this year unless it does not change to something new.

Pure classical will never come in popular youth style again, since it's already mainstream enough to last centuries, but music evolves to fit the landscape of the youth. Unless there is a way to fuse classical music with electronic music.

I think there's going to be a fusion of something like that song with a voice, but I can't picture it yet, since that song sounds too slow. People like fast music, music to dance too.

Who is Isan?

Classical music can come back! It will need help. Some kind of extremely popular kid icon will need to make it look it cool. Sort of like a classical version of Miley Cyrus who plays the violin and also acts in her own sitcom that would be like a cross between Dawson's Creek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and It's Always Sunny in Philidephia.

I can see it now... Little Veronica was only happy when doing one of two things: feeding on the blood of her victims, or playing her Strativarius *shows young girl playing Eine Kleine Nacht Musik on her violin*

Idk who Isan is/are/were. I found them by accident and sort of liked that song.

[luckypharms]

Part of me wants to say that mainstream music, for the most part, has never been and will never be good so there's nothing to worry about.
As well, post-rock is not accessible enough for it to be mainstream. Especially the good post-rock.

That being said, I think it will continue as it is now (pop and rap) but will focus almost exclusively on electronically made music. Think of a whole generation of macbook music. Disgusting.

But the good thing is that no one ever has to willingly listen to exclusively mainstream music, unless you are 13. So no worries!

[Dakota]

Part of me wants to say that mainstream music, for the most part, has never been and will never be good so there's nothing to worry about.
As well, post-rock is not accessible enough for it to be mainstream. Especially the good post-rock.

That being said, I think it will continue as it is now (pop and rap) but will focus almost exclusively on electronically made music. Think of a whole generation of macbook music. Disgusting.

But the good thing is that no one ever has to willingly listen to exclusively mainstream music, unless you are 13. So no worries!
What's disgusting for you could be awesome for another, it's all tastes, and that paticular taste is popular for a small segment of time. Then it's time for a new music to emerge, it's a cycle of birth and death and rebirths. Music evolves to fit the population, and as it goes its a reflection of the youth of the time.

Then its starts all over again in the equilibrium cycle where a new singer emerges and an old one fades away.