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What genre of music will rise to dominate the next decade? Will it be some fusion of Spotify playlists like we have with 100 Gecs & Billie Eilish? Will pop music continue on its more creative path and conquer all? Will it be the rise of another new subgenre of rap? Will the world continue to embrace more crossover country acts? Will it be some variation of world music that continues to gain popularity and take center stage? Is rock dead or will Post Malone save it one alt-cover at a time? Could something we have currently like pysch-funk take over where psych-pop has grown stale? Is bedroom pop the new indie rock? Will the 80's inspired electro-dance or Dance Punk that rose to prominence in the 00's just be replaced by 90's rave? What say you? At minimum those of us who survive the nuclear fallout will get to read how bad your prediction was in ten years.
feel like post punk is starting to have sort of a revival. it's just really broad and lots of good bands that feel clearly inspired by the darker and lighter classics of the genre. the cures, byrne's are still making enough noise to get people to check them out that are hearing that music for the first time, bands like idles/protomartyr are getting more shine, and then lots of young bands with critical acclaim and great live reputation (shame, black country, viagra boys, come to mind).
feel like post punk is starting to have sort of a revival. it's just really broad and lots of good bands that feel clearly inspired by the darker and lighter classics of the genre. the cures, byrne's are still making enough noise to get people to check them out that are hearing that music for the first time, bands like idles/protomartyr are getting more shine, and then lots of young bands with critical acclaim and great live reputation (shame, black country, viagra boys, come to mind).
feel like post punk is starting to have sort of a revival. it's just really broad and lots of good bands that feel clearly inspired by the darker and lighter classics of the genre. the cures, byrne's are still making enough noise to get people to check them out that are hearing that music for the first time, bands like idles/protomartyr are getting more shine, and then lots of young bands with critical acclaim and great live reputation (shame, black country, viagra boys, come to mind).
post punk revival revival
there's definitely some cyclical projection to things that makes me feel like it's there
classic garage rock > punk > metal/hair > post punk/shoegaze/hardcore > grunge > nu metal > blues/garage revival > punk/new wave/dance rock revival > psych revival (sort of leaving it off here with tame being the biggest rock band of the now) > ? ? ?
they all feed off and respond to each other and I could see the bright sounds of the indie 00s/the tame 10s being replaced by a darker rock in a post trump/brexit us/uk
Phoebe Bridgers-core, filtered through Olivia Rodrigo-core
there was definitely already a run of amazing women artists in the same sort of genre set but yeah I imagine it really ramps up with phoebe's success. I remember reading some p4k article about snail mail being in this huge bidding war when she was 16, and people are already listening to things like claud and saying it's the next snail mail or soccer mommy, it's crazy how young and on to the next one the game is. there's been so many "next snail mails" and she hasn't out out music in almost too long, could easily get left in the dust
also easily could see the charli/sophie/pc sound sticking around for a while with some of those acts bordering so close on radio playability.
also hoping that people like Gibbs/the Griselda guys/earl keep the pulse on heady minimalist heavy hip hop. feel like party rap has just been too strong there's gotta be a correction and hopefully it's in that wake
If 2020 showed anything then it was that there's room for a massive disco revival, let's go. It also has so much potential cross-over material like with the dance pop of Dua Lipa, the psychy stuff of Tame Impala or just fuse it with house like Roisin. Post pandemic disco era, I'm in baby.
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also easily could see the charli/sophie/pc sound sticking around for a while with some of those acts bordering so close on radio playability.
also hoping that people like Gibbs/the Griselda guys/earl keep the pulse on heady minimalist heavy hip hop. feel like party rap has just been too strong there's gotta be a correction and hopefully it's in that wake
If 2020 showed anything then it was that there's room for a massive disco revival, let's go. It also has so much potential cross-over material like with the dance pop of Dua Lipa, the psychy stuff of Tame Impala or just fuse it with house like Roisin. Post pandemic disco era, I'm in baby.
I don’t know where Tame goes next (I assume just more of the same), but I wonder if the sounds of people like Steve Lacy and Thundercat could replace it? The path from Tame to Thundercat is similar to Jimi Hendrix’s so it’s been the cycle before. I don’t know if Tame has hit their ceiling with their upcoming arena tour, there’s typically one way to go from there. I am anxious to catch that three piece, more electronic oriented set Parker has been introducing though. That looks rad.
If 2020 showed anything then it was that there's room for a massive disco revival, let's go. It also has so much potential cross-over material like with the dance pop of Dua Lipa, the psychy stuff of Tame Impala or just fuse it with house like Roisin. Post pandemic disco era, I'm in baby.
I don’t know where Tame goes next (I assume just more of the same), but I wonder if the sounds of people like Steve Lacy and Thundercat could replace it? The path from Tame to Thundercat is similar to Jimi Hendrix’s so it’s been the cycle before. I don’t know if Tame has hit their ceiling with their upcoming arena tour, there’s typically one way to go from there. I am anxious to catch that three piece, more electronic oriented set Parker has been introducing though. That looks rad.
Idk, I think they transitioned pretty significally album after album while still somewhat being recognizable in comparison to their predeccesor each time. What do you mean with replace it, I don't think their sounds (even Thundercat vs Lacy) are even close to what Tame does? Or is it more stylistically?
I don’t know where Tame goes next (I assume just more of the same), but I wonder if the sounds of people like Steve Lacy and Thundercat could replace it? The path from Tame to Thundercat is similar to Jimi Hendrix’s so it’s been the cycle before. I don’t know if Tame has hit their ceiling with their upcoming arena tour, there’s typically one way to go from there. I am anxious to catch that three piece, more electronic oriented set Parker has been introducing though. That looks rad.
Idk, I think they transitioned pretty significally album after album while still somewhat being recognizable in comparison to their predeccesor each time. What do you mean with replace it, I don't think their sounds (even Thundercat vs Lacy) are even close to what Tame does? Or is it more stylistically?
If Tame is Are You Experienced then Thundercat/Lacy are Band of Gypsies. They are similar in their psych-roots, but dissimilar in that they approach it with funk and soul, not rock and pop.
Here's a good example Thundercat's sound becoming more normalized/mainstream.
Gecs aside, I’d actually posed a similar question to my music friend group chat. What is the next sound and what is it pulling from? They all answered similar to this thread with hyper pop and emo rap/auto crooners but I want to disqualify that because they’re both pretty established genres at this point. I would guess that rap stays a pretty strong cultural force for at the very least another years so I would imagine it’s some new iteration of it.
I was honestly hoping/thinking more intelligent hip-hop like Earthgang would just continue to grow. I expect a reaction to TPAB and Untitled like we did with 808's throughout the 10's. Socially conscience acts are gaining momentum. Trap is saturated and near its final breath. I don't know if a subgenre of experimental rap could rise so fast without an entirely new culture of style being born with it. That's not to say it couldn't influence prominent artists in the 30's.
R&B will have a heavy place this decade imo.
edit: I could see shock and awe, pop-rap acts getting steam on the charts too - think of a Miley/Tommy Cash hybrid - terrible really but an easy dollar
I was honestly hoping/thinking more intelligent hip-hop like Earthgang would just continue to grow. I expect a reaction to TPAB and Untitled like we did with 808's throughout the 10's. Socially conscience acts are gaining momentum. Trap is saturated and near its final breath. I don't know if a subgenre of experimental rap could rise so fast without an entirely new culture of style being born with it. That's not to say it couldn't influence prominent artists in the 30's.
R&B will have a heavy place this decade imo.
edit: I could see shock and awe, pop-rap acts getting steam on the charts too - think of a Miley/Tommy Cash hybrid - terrible really but an easy dollar
I was honestly hoping/thinking more intelligent hip-hop like Earthgang would just continue to grow. I expect a reaction to TPAB and Untitled like we did with 808's throughout the 10's. Socially conscience acts are gaining momentum. Trap is saturated and near its final breath. I don't know if a subgenre of experimental rap could rise so fast without an entirely new culture of style being born with it. That's not to say it couldn't influence prominent artists in the 30's.
R&B will have a heavy place this decade imo.
edit: I could see shock and awe, pop-rap acts getting steam on the charts too - think of a Miley/Tommy Cash hybrid - terrible really but an easy dollar
let's get noname to a headliner spot
The US goes through a communist revolution and Noname becomes the biggest act in the world
On the pop side of things, music will most likely become faster in terms of BPM. Last half of the 2010s we had a shift to a more downtempo dancehall / Caribbean style (Drake, Rihanna, Major Lazer) that culminated in a reggeaton and Latin mainstream explosion (Despacito, Bad Bunny, etc).
I could see pop music becoming faster, louder, and more club oriented similar to the end of the 2000s. Maybe we get a mainstream version of hyper pop.
On the underground electronic side of the things, I believe we’ll see an extreme polarization of BPM. Full hard dance / rave / industrial music on one end and downtempo / ambient on the other end. I think most people will eventually get bored of generic 128bpm tech house / business techno.
I could also see the rave aesthetic becoming popular with the younger generations, kinda like the early 2010s saw a rise in big room EDM / PLUR. It was weird seeing Grimes and A$AP Rocky embrace rave culture at last Art Basel but I think that’s the direction we’re headed.