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Originally Posted by Ayos
within the next 20-40 years, we'll be seeing more and more MUSIC and less and less CRAP.
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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,
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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