dbltroubleThe Pop Revolution
August 31st 2010 23:01
It's funny how entire decades are often represented by the music that was the most popular in that time. Maybe music is such a huge business that those artists are the biggest celebrities of that era, and by remembering those decades we naturally remember the icons of pop cultures, and thus, their music. But it's such a fluid concept, it would be very difficult to quantify the popularity or fame of a person. So it would be hard to say who takes the cake for the most famous artist of a particular time.
Everybody knows, the 90's was grunge, but since then it becomes a little more difficult to say which is the dominate genre of the decade, in fact it's probably ridiculous to look at it by decades, because realistically, it's not like the trends change on New Years Day.
So what came in after grunge? Who owns the post-Cobain era? Now everyone is welcome to disagree with me, but I'm gonna say that the pre-millennium era simply saw the development of popular trends from the 90's onward. The classic 90's rock sound evolved into nerdy college rock, and the gangster rap of the 80's and 90's took a leap into the mainstream, resulting in a number of failed MTV programs, and endless music video plays.
But I sense a consistency of late, something familiar in a lot of what I've recently heard. What qualifies a trend? I'm not sure, but what I'm noticing is not one genre that's been overplayed, but a number of different genres producing music with similar aspects. Recently, party metal and sloppy thrash metal have received some attention, and euro techno songs remixed by those overpaid American rappers I mentioned before. But there's also the development of that nerdy college rock from the early 2000's. Now a significant part of that counter culture you just can't get off of your television, is pop-punk.
All of these genres are taking some of the simplest elements of pop music, and turning them into the choruses of platinum hits. Now that just has to be a trend. But it's not all bad, music is expanding nowadays simply because so much has been done. I'm just looking forward to the future.
Everybody knows, the 90's was grunge, but since then it becomes a little more difficult to say which is the dominate genre of the decade, in fact it's probably ridiculous to look at it by decades, because realistically, it's not like the trends change on New Years Day.
So what came in after grunge? Who owns the post-Cobain era? Now everyone is welcome to disagree with me, but I'm gonna say that the pre-millennium era simply saw the development of popular trends from the 90's onward. The classic 90's rock sound evolved into nerdy college rock, and the gangster rap of the 80's and 90's took a leap into the mainstream, resulting in a number of failed MTV programs, and endless music video plays.
But I sense a consistency of late, something familiar in a lot of what I've recently heard. What qualifies a trend? I'm not sure, but what I'm noticing is not one genre that's been overplayed, but a number of different genres producing music with similar aspects. Recently, party metal and sloppy thrash metal have received some attention, and euro techno songs remixed by those overpaid American rappers I mentioned before. But there's also the development of that nerdy college rock from the early 2000's. Now a significant part of that counter culture you just can't get off of your television, is pop-punk.
All of these genres are taking some of the simplest elements of pop music, and turning them into the choruses of platinum hits. Now that just has to be a trend. But it's not all bad, music is expanding nowadays simply because so much has been done. I'm just looking forward to the future.
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