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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2020 7:54:28 GMT 10
Does anybody think we'll see the end of the domination of trap music and the lo-fi mood as a result of this cultural and economic shift? I'd say the current sound is already a bit long in the tooth as it is. Typically major events that significantly alter the cultural mood, such as 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis, are also accompanied by a change in direction for pop music. Will we see that in 2020?
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Post by smartboi on Apr 4, 2020 8:24:13 GMT 10
I wish that would happen, but I doubt it will. My bet is that things won't change for another 3 or 4 years. But then again we'll have to see this pandemic comes to an end and what the long term effects of it will be.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2020 8:38:15 GMT 10
I wish that would happen, but I doubt it will. My bet is that things won't change for another 3 or 4 years. But then again we'll have to see this pandemic comes to an end and what the long term effects of it will be. I don't know. Music hasn't changed much since 2017. Before the pandemic, I was predicting that it would be a slow transition from the sound of the 2010s to whatever comes next. However, major societal events had the tendency to lead to much more abrupt cultural shifts.
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Post by John Titor on Apr 4, 2020 9:50:41 GMT 10
`Let me just say the fact the 80s funky music is coming in is a regression, we have already had the 80s come back many times, The 2000s wave 1 and The early 2010s
Wave 2, the fact that this is a new thing means people are running out of ideas
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Post by John Titor on Apr 4, 2020 10:37:58 GMT 10
Does anybody think we'll see the end of the domination of trap music and the lo-fi mood as a result of this cultural and economic shift? I'd say the current sound is already a bit long in the tooth as it is. Typically major events that significantly alter the cultural mood, such as 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis, are also accompanied by a change in direction for pop music. Will we see that in 2020? this is true, I remember after 9/11 (despite Teen pop pretty much being scrubbed from the air waves in the week leading to it) like around November in science class and randomly Nsync's bye bye bye came on and this guy was like " Turn that Wack Sh*t off please" no one wanted to hear that lol Music is so lucky that had the neptunes tweaking the pop girls and guys, it would sound SOOOO out of place post 9/11 had everyone continued the same funky Max Martin sound. 9/11 made movies that recently got released look super outdated, minus maybe American Pie 2 which was pop punk influenced. During this time music videos were kind of confused what to do so they added record scratches to songs and music videos became muted cold brown and dark blue colors instead of greys and metallics. Not everyone followed this but it was def a response to what was going on. so what do I see happening Post Covid-19 ? I could see early 2000s sounding upbeat songs make a come back
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2020 11:17:49 GMT 10
`Let me just say the fact the 80s funky music is coming in is a regression, we have already had the 80s come back many times, The 2000s wave 1 and The early 2010s Wave 2, the fact that this is a new thing means people are running out of ideas I could see 80s-style synthpop and new wave making a rebound. People were saying the era of pop stars and pop kings and queens ended in the late 2010s but I can see it making a huge comeback in the early 2020s.
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Post by John Titor on Apr 4, 2020 11:48:32 GMT 10
`Let me just say the fact the 80s funky music is coming in is a regression, we have already had the 80s come back many times, The 2000s wave 1 and The early 2010s Wave 2, the fact that this is a new thing means people are running out of ideas I could see 80s-style synthpop and new wave making a rebound. People were saying the era of pop stars and pop kings and queens ended in the late 2010s but I can see it making a huge comeback in the early 2020s. lets hope
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 4, 2020 19:57:00 GMT 10
Trap had already passed it's zenith quite a while before the coronavirus outbreak even began, IMO. Sure it's still popular and resonating with people, however it was unmistakably at it's peak back in 2018 when SoundCloud artists like XXXTentacion, Lil Uzi Vert and Migos were scoring huge hits on the Top-40 charts. It has been slowly declining in chart prominence since then and I think if a comparison had to be made, trap is arguably in the same state that hair-metal was in back in 1990. The genre was slowly on it's way out regardless. If anything, the pandemic will likely result in trap sticking on the charts for a while longer than it would have otherwise, as pop culture has pretty much come to a grinding halt at the moment with what's going on in the world right now.
As for lo-fi or 'alt-pop', to be honest, I think we've only just witnessed the beginning of it's lifespan in the mainstream. I remember @loosebolt made this point in a thread a few days ago and I would personally have to agree with it. The coronavirus has resulted in more people spending time in their homes, including musicians, and what we could witness is an emergence of more "bedroom pop" or lo-fi recordings on the charts as a result of it. More and more artists are going to be making music in their own homes, not in the studio. The style is obviously what's "in" at the moment. It's quite possible that the pandemic will actually work in it's favour.
I don't think we will see a whole lot change for at least a while.
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Post by sman12 on Apr 7, 2020 9:43:54 GMT 10
Trap had already passed it's zenith quite a while before the coronavirus outbreak even began, IMO. Sure it's still popular and resonating with people, however it was unmistakably at it's peak back in 2018 when SoundCloud artists like XXXTentacion, Lil Uzi Vert and Migos were scoring huge hits on the Top-40 charts. It has been slowly declining in chart prominence since then and I think if a comparison had to be made, trap is arguably in the same state that hair-metal was in back in 1990. The genre was slowly on it's way out regardless. If anything, the pandemic will likely result in trap sticking on the charts for a while longer than it would have otherwise, as pop culture has pretty much come to a grinding halt at the moment with what's going on in the world right now. As for lo-fi or 'alt-pop', to be honest, I think we've only just witnessed the beginning of it's lifespan in the mainstream. I remember @loosebolt made this point in a thread a few days ago and I would personally have to agree with it. The coronavirus has resulted in more people spending time in their homes, including musicians, and what we could witness is an emergence of more "bedroom pop" or lo-fi recordings on the charts as a result of it. More and more artists are going to be making music in their own homes, not in the studio. The style is obviously what's "in" at the moment. It's quite possible that the pandemic will actually work in it's favour. I don't think we will see a whole lot change for at least a while. I also believe trap's in the redundancy phase as hair metal was back in the early 90s. Everything in trap is running dry: the deep bass, the emo and Atlanta cultures, the hi-hats, the percussion, the snares, everything. "Life is Good" by Drake and Future was one of the blandest songs I've ever heard and is a stark indicator of the subgenre's dryness.
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Post by rainbow on Apr 7, 2020 11:04:20 GMT 10
I wish that would happen, but I doubt it will. My bet is that things won't change for another 3 or 4 years. But then again we'll have to see this pandemic comes to an end and what the long term effects of it will be. Music won't be the same four years from now, that's way too long. The current era of music we're in started in like 2017. There's no way things will be the same by 2024.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2020 10:06:01 GMT 10
means people are running out of ideas Man, where have you been the last ten years?
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Post by John Titor on Apr 8, 2020 10:27:38 GMT 10
means people are running out of ideas Man, where have you been the last ten years? at least when Gaga or someone did it at least it was done with taste, this is just running to the well for the sake of it, double dipping the chip of pop culture. What you are seeing right now screams " music label wants something safe" and " oh let me use something Funky that will be a crowd pleaser"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2020 0:02:39 GMT 10
As far as I'm concerned, we have been out of truly original or breakthrough ideas for at least a decade, if not longer. Everything since the '80s at least has been derivative of something or other.
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Post by broadstreet223 on Apr 10, 2020 7:19:44 GMT 10
I feel like the 2020s only lasted 2 days
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Post by Early2010sGuy on Apr 11, 2020 12:17:38 GMT 10
I hope music gets more optimistic and upbeat because 2019 was a garbage year for the depressing music, but as what mc98 says, every decade goes through a depressive era, and an optimistic era will come sometime in the future, but we'll never know...
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