Predict the next music fad
 

Looking back to the previous decade and a half, we can notice trends in music. Early 90's with its grunge, late 90's with boy bands, early 2000's with its revival garage music and so on.

What trends could you predict for the next years to come?

My guess is that bling bling is here to stay (if this is good or not I don't know, I enjoy the occasional club hit) I also predict pop records with dub and reggae influences, just listen the Paris Hilton piece of Shit. I also predict at least another 2 years of New Wave revival.

Discutan, perras.

It had better be metal.

I mean, come on, Lordi wins Eurovision, Hammerfall might be in it next year, crappy acts like Dragonforce and Trivium are starting to prevail over nu-metal garbage - Could the 80s be coming back to life? I hope so!

Electro-crap (as in a cunning mix of electro and crap). To be honest I think that the future of music fads is so obscure at the moment that maybe an obscure genre like that would classify it. I don't know where else music can go now, and I'm not sure that a revisit to a previous genre will be the next step.

Emo Rap.

I gots no cheese/
Bitches please/
Whadda I gots to do/
Spill my blood on you/
Slit my wrists on you/
Get all sick on you/
Ugh

I think Trance music is going to expand further and further. Its HUGE in Europe, and I think its going to continue to get bigger and more widespread.

Based on how much it has grown in popularity, trance music is going to get BIG.

Well I am hoping for something new to be honest. The 00's have been a total pharce for music, as it has all just been recycled stuff that we have all heard before. Its gonna be interesting to see what the next step is, because if I hear one more recycled RnB shittyness, or another Dance tune that is a remix of ANYTHING I will hunt down the creators and cut off their extremeties with barbed wire. You have been warned.

Don't wish too hard, it could happen ... =/

Well it seems to be already happening. Lamb of God's new album debuted at number 8. Many other metal or -core bands debuted at least in the top 200. Dimmu Borgir sold over 100,000 records, a first for the band and for Nuclear Blast. In Flames charted its highest ever with Come Clarity. Shadows Fall sold over 250,000 of its last album. So yeah, at least metalcore might be the next fad.

early 90's was all rap yo, with the whole east cost vs west cost thing, tupac, snoop, dre, biggie all those big names totally took over the scene.

Another thing I wouldn't mind would be the return of a Generation X-style culture. Mid-90s mainstream music wasn't bad at all.

I agree that trance/electronica is probably going to explode in the US, and we're going to get a lot of new styles out of it. A hope of mine is that more bands akin to Idiot Pilot will emerge, with refreshingly unique blends of uncommonly-blended types of music.

I think along with trance we'll get an influx of neo-classical, as well, which will spur a revival of other more musical genres, and within the next 20-40 years, we'll be seeing more and more MUSIC and less and less CRAP.

Nothing made since 1995 has the right to be considered "garage music". Thats like saying Flock Of Seagulls writes as well as The Beatles because they both have crazy-ass haircuts.

"Garage music" cannot be revived, only shat upon, just like R&B and Rock.

While techno - or trance, if you want to be specific - definitely has a niche market here in the States, I don't think it'll ever see a second upswing like it did in the late 1990s. Paul Van Dyk admitted in his Politics Of Dancing album that the "revolution" had failed by 2001 and only the creators and artists could be held to blame.

This is the forcast I desire the most to come true but in actuality, it is the least likely. Most radio music is utter drivel, was drivel 10, 20, 30, 40 and even 50 years ago. I'd like to see a 'classical' or 'neo-classical' revival but with the current attitudes in academia, it seems rather optimistic to think european art music will come to the fore anytime in the near future.
Techno kinda hit it's stride a few years back and fizzled, just like Ska and just like what will happen with Emo.
Pop music is ALWAYS pop music, but reinvented and 'dressed' in a different stylistic attire. i.e. the underlying structure of the music is pretty much the same while on the surface, it plagiarizes from different stylistic dialects. Of course it is impossible to accurately predict which undercurrent will taint the pop music scene next, but I'm not holding my breath for anything revolutionary.

This being said, the one thing I have noticed is that 2 or 3 years before a certain 'sound' comes into vogue, it becomes intensely popular within the musical underground. Go into community centers, dusty smokey bars, and basements across the country and listen to what the edgier, less trendy teenagers are listening to. What bands they like, what music they play. Chances are, that is what will be big in the next few years,

I really don't care what happens next in music fads and styles... I'll just be listening to the same stuff that I have on my computer

HAHAHA, when you're an old 50 year old mom, your kids are going to make fun of you for your archaic music tastes.
(that sounds SO much like how my dad is now!)

Totally agree, but I have to admit, somewhere in the back of my mind I'm practically certain that music will, within the next several years, reach kind of a "boiling point" and everyone will be completely tired of it all being crap. Doesn't mean it's going to happen, but a guy can dream... and until then, enjoy the few gems that are extricated from piles and piles of rubbish.

I suppose in order to be totally clear we'd have to have explicit definitions of "techno" and "trance" that we all agree on, but I think of "trance" as synonymous with artists such as Rob Dougan, E.S. Posthumus, and especially with his most recent album, BT. Which is probably a completely inaccurate description of trance, but be that as it may, it's good to see some excellent music being made, and sad that it still remains in the ugly shadow of the trash that's piled up around us.

Still, there are signs of this being a possibility. More and more live bands are popping up - and by bands, I'm talking big band, jazz, blues, some even classical - and are becoming more and more in demand. "Lounge" and "crooner" singers are broadening their niche (look at Paul Anka, Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., etc.) and aside from some exceptions, we're starting to see the music industry get a little more picky about the quality of music they distribute to the public.

Or perhaps that's just blind optimism.

With the computing power we have now with dual and quad core processors and production suites getting more and more powerful and less costly, I agree. I also see more people going to alternative tech just to set themselves apart, such as plugging a Gameboy into a blender and then routing that through some antique effects pedal or something. :rolleyes: Tools are just tools - it's the music that matters...

Oh jeez... I can't even think straight, that was really funny.

I am curious with the rising popularity of Cascada. I think this is where music will be heading (more Electronica based music).