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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 17, 2019 23:04:35 GMT 10
Wait you're having a kid?! Boy or girl? A girl! And it's coming soon. I mean, we're only two weeks from our due date, it really is any day now. Congratulations! 
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Post by rainbow on Feb 17, 2019 23:05:58 GMT 10
Wait you're having a kid?! Boy or girl? A girl! And it's coming soon. I mean, we're only two weeks from our due date, it really is any day now. My brother is having a son that's due on June 11th. I'm going to officially be an aunt. We both are gonna be loving 2019 babies. 
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 1:11:43 GMT 10
It's very exciting, and not only because I get to become a dad. Think about all the analysis we do on here of pop culture both now and during our childhoods. It makes me wonder how my daughter will experience childhood - what will it mean to be Gen Alpha? What memories and creative works will she hold dear? And she'll be growing up during interesting times, to say the least.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 18, 2019 12:33:15 GMT 10
It's very exciting, and not only because I get to become a dad. Think about all the analysis we do on here of pop culture both now and during our childhoods. It makes me wonder how my daughter will experience childhood - what will it mean to be Gen Alpha? What memories and creative works will she hold dear? And she'll be growing up during interesting times, to say the least. Yep. It will also be interesting to see how someone who is around your daughter's age will one day perceive the 2010s and the decades of the past. To think, someone born in 2019 would never have lived in a world when smartphones didn't exist and rock music was a cultural force! 
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 12:46:54 GMT 10
It's very exciting, and not only because I get to become a dad. Think about all the analysis we do on here of pop culture both now and during our childhoods. It makes me wonder how my daughter will experience childhood - what will it mean to be Gen Alpha? What memories and creative works will she hold dear? And she'll be growing up during interesting times, to say the least. Yep. It will also be interesting to see how someone who is around your daughter's age will one day perceive the 2010s and the decades of the past. To think, someone born in 2019 would never have lived in a world when smartphones didn't exist and rock music was a cultural force! Oooh wow, good point. Imagine it: an entire generation born not comprehending how rock dominated the musical landscape. I'm okay with it though; the crooners had their time, jazz reigned for close to a century, so rock's fading into the underground was inevitable.
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Post by єяиα on Feb 18, 2019 14:24:46 GMT 10
I hope I get my life together by then
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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 18, 2019 14:49:13 GMT 10
Yep. It will also be interesting to see how someone who is around your daughter's age will one day perceive the 2010s and the decades of the past. To think, someone born in 2019 would never have lived in a world when smartphones didn't exist and rock music was a cultural force! Oooh wow, good point. Imagine it: an entire generation born not comprehending how rock dominated the musical landscape. I'm okay with it though; the crooners had their time, jazz reigned for close to a century, so rock's fading into the underground was inevitable. The scariest thing is, it has arguably already started to happen!  For instance, people born in 2004 were only 6 years old when rock fell out of the mainstream around 2010. Those people are now 15 years old and in high school. Their high school years, as well as the majority (if not, all) of their elementary/middle school years occurred when rock didn't have a significant presence in the mainstream. To be honest, I wish rock would make a comeback into the mainstream consensus, but i'm bias as rock has always been my favourite genre. I can understand the argument for it not returning to the mainstream though.
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Post by Telso on Feb 18, 2019 22:37:17 GMT 10
Jazz has had a complicated history, but while it is now fully absent from the top 40. It is still commonly enjoyed by faithful audiences across the globe, and scenes and movements bringing new ideas keep the genre still very much alive (like the UK scene in the last few years that had critical attention and enjoyed a lot of visibility in Jazz sections of record stores I went to).
This is the best I could wish for the Rock genre in the future. Right now it is in a stade of what Jazz was in the 1980s: thoroughly diluted by Pop and Electronic influences and mostly relegated to advertisements and weather channels (Imagine Dragons being to Rock what Kenny G was to Jazz)
While I'm highly sceptical for a full return, having still a major influence on popular music is perfectly still plausible.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 23:51:12 GMT 10
Jazz has had a complicated history, but while it is now fully absent from the top 40. It is still commonly enjoyed by faithful audiences across the globe, and scenes and movements bringing new ideas keep the genre still very much alive (like the UK scene in the last few years that had critical attention and enjoyed a lot of visibility in Jazz sections of record stores I went to). This is the best I could wish for the Rock genre in the future. Right now it is in a stade of what Jazz was in the 1980s: thoroughly diluted by Pop and Electronic influences and mostly relegated to advertisements and weather channels (Imagine Dragons being to Rock what Kenny G was to Jazz) While I'm highly sceptical for a full return, having still a major influence on popular music is perfectly still plausible. That is essentially what I’m hoping for for the future of rock as well. It does not need to dominate anymore; not anything against the genre, but being the dominant genre on the airwaves doesn’t magically make it better than if it were to remain in the subculture.
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For instance, people born in 2004 were only 6 years old when rock fell out of the mainstream around 2010. Those people are now 15 years old and in high school. Their high school years, as well as the majority (if not, all) of their elementary/middle school years occurred when rock didn't have a significant presence in the mainstream. 
