Another decade is coming up fast, we’re already almost a third through this year. What are some of your predictions for changes to music in the decade to come? A few of mine:
>the success of experimental hip-hop and post-rock bands in the somewhat underground (hipster) scene will lead to the emergence of a new genre of “post-rap”: picture long single person monologues over a background of cacophonic and eclectic classical instrumentation, often punctured with elements of free jazz improvisation thrown in
>the success of Old Town Road will lead to a new genre of WDM: Western Dance Music. Electronic beats with fast dueling banjo solos will dominate the charts, honky-tonk pianos and old moonshine jugs will be as common place as midi keyboards once were. There will be lo-fi hip-hop videos that sample John Wayne, with videos of old slowed-down Marlboro man commercials. The peak of the genre will be when little Mason Ramsey grows up and starts dominating the charts
>Rock will make one big brief comeback with something that’s chart-friendly but not quantized to all hell. It’ll be kinda a mix of hard rock/early heavy metal and 2000s power-pop. It’ll die down as quick as it flared up, but it’ll always be known as the soundtrack to the summer of that year (say 2027, but it could really happen any year)
>Some old joke/funny artist will make a huge comeback nobody was expecting. I wanna say Rebecca Black, but that’s not definite. All I know is someone who we thought of as just a funny one-hit wonder is gonna make something that blows everybody’s socks off. There may or may not also be an LMFAO reunion
>some group or artist in the 2010s released an album that hasn’t really been discovered by the mainstream yet. When it is found it will change music as we know it
What do you think the music of the 2020s will sound like?
Weird fucking electronic shit. Like SOPHIE and Aphex Twin.
90s nostalgia
This is really stupid and gay. Highschool level extrapolation/prediction. You are a birdbrain
90s hip hop revival
90s dance
gabber / hard dance revival
>the success of Old Town Road will lead to a new genre of WDM: Western Dance Music. Electronic beats with fast dueling banjo solos will dominate the charts, honky-tonk pianos and old moonshine jugs will be as common place as midi keyboards once were. There will be lo-fi hip-hop videos that sample John Wayne, with videos of old slowed-down Marlboro man commercials. The peak of the genre will be when little Mason Ramsey grows up and starts dominating the charts
IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR COTTON EYED JOE I'D BEEN MARRIED A LONG TIME AGO
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WHERE DID YA GO
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>attempts at grunge 3.0 are made
>it just comes off as more "buttrock"
Teenagers hate what their parents like so it won’t be memerap or the shitty onions version of neopsych popular right now thank god. I’m spitballing but I predict a modernization of something rough and rebellious like big beat, freakbeat, or hardcore punk
Yeah like ddx-10
What are your predictions smart guy?
Los Angeles burns and nothing is popular ever again.
You have to be 18 to post here.
I’m 20. What are you predictions?
Trap beats are fucking eternal but there's a chance rap will use more EDM inspired beats as well. R&B is already huge with Khalid and such so that'll probably continue.
EDM (or any electronic genre) will never be top dog outside of mindless partying/gaming/study background noise because "When do they start singing/spitting some bars?"
Also reggaeton is probably going to take over absolutely everything if the Hispanic population spikes.
decades are arbitrary measurements
>>There may or may not also be an LMFAO reunion
holy shit
Dubstep Revival
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youtube.com
Mass produced corporate control fed to brain dead until another renaissance of culture and art emerge like the progress from 1950>. Basically wait for world war three to breed inspiration.
Yeah. 2020
>>lmfao reunion
they quit because the older guy fuckin milked off their income from lmao or some shit, no way
Basslines will come to be such absurdly low frequencies you can't even hear them, you only know they're there because your entire skeleton starts rattling.
just more trap and future bass
maybe some other stupid meme genres
also music videos will become full-on porno
might be a rock revival late in the decade
>black ppls music popularity will be at it's peak in early 2020's then it will fall quickly to go underground again in mid 2020's
>experimental hip hop is going to get more popular
>k-pop will go mainstream
>rock is going to be even more dead
>metal stays the same
>indie will be at it's peak
>new genre that will replace rap and rock: fusion of edm and rock/punk/metal
>sees music as just a trend for a decade
genre tourists get the rope
> pop-punk will return, but will largely have elements of electronica
> rap will remain popular, but be the worst decade for it thus far, therefore aiding it's death in the mainstream
> psychedelic rock will return to the mainstream, hurting indie rock's position
t. 16 year mulatto
>doesn’t think music changes decade by decade
You’re an idiot. Why does music now sound differently from how it did fourth years ago?
Mainstream pop production fully embraces sampled sounds and oddly synthesised timbres/textures as the basis of their electronic instrumentation. The logical conclusion of Peter Gabriel fucking around on his Fairlight. See SOPHIE producing Lady Gaga's next release.
Other than that maybe expect Post-R&B and the big rise of Emo-Rap.
Rock music will continue to be stuck in a constant state of revivalism and fail to evolve.
It's been stagnant for about ten years.
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more drain gang pls
It's already kinda started with artists like scarlxrd, jasiah or even billie eilish and the new boi who's rising up real quick lil nas x. the type of music that'll be popular is probably gonna be like a mix of different genres like metal and trap or rap and country and other combinations. There may also be less emphasis on Rhythm. It seems to set farther and farther back from lyric based, and more and more "Don't repeat yourself in a song"
fuck me these would be swet
I live in a club city and can tell you as far as dance music that breakbeats are back in almost every genre that can use them
Anybody wanna form a neocrust-folktronica band with house beats in place of drums, a guqin in place of a bass, and a jangly rickenbacker 330 for the lead guitar?
Sure
nice
Vaporwave is kinda half 80s-half 90s nostalgia. We may have a half 90s-half 2000s revival, similar to grunge 3.0 of
based
rap will continue to use trap beats but lean more toward guitar and rock for instrumentation
The biggest pop stars will use more “experimental” sounds but really just draw from PC Music, MIA, The Knife, etc. A
you’re out of the loop re: Lady Gaga. Her comeback will be Billy Joel-ish corny piano ballads
Actually trap is gonna take center stage on pop radio stations, so expect a lot of bleeps and vocal ducking.
> the 2k20's rock revival has been initiated with Mgmt's 'little Dark Age' and also Pappoz' 'Theatrical State of Mind', found here-
> youtube.com
trap rock
>90s hip hop revival
Can't see that happening, although the boom bap beats are really popular by themselves already.
>90s dance
>gabber / hard dance revival
I want to believe, althouhg I don't think any kind of Hard Dance was ever popular in the US. Not even Scooter.
Psychedelic drugs will be legalized in multiple states, there will be another Summer of Love and its primary genre will be a kind of pastoral folk hip hop.
The last thing we need is the zoomers becoming the boomers.
Actually a coherent prediction in this thread, what the fuck.
Boomers are a very specific group of people born in very specific conditions. There will not be another baby boom unless there is another world war and the allied forces win against the postmodern neofascists.
Lol
What's so funny?
Do you know what the baby boom was??
a couple of zoomers with some pretty good taste make some pretty good albums, then nuclear war happens and they all die
He’s obviously talking about culturally acting like them, not literally being them you autist
gimme dat nu-nu-metal
>some group or artist in the 2010s released an album that hasn’t really been discovered by the mainstream yet. When it is found it will change music as we know it
I am going to find this album. Who wants to help?
dub says he'll find it
Same bullshit
No, I will.
I'm thinking something like TwinSisterMoon or Natural Snow Buildings
Lol