music in the future

[PennyPyro]

What do you think music will be like 50 years from now?

 

[WinnieThePoo]

KRAFTWERK

 

[WinnieThePoo]

maybe

Yello

 

[babyman]

there won't be music anymore!!....................right now we're living the "music surviror times", there are so few out there who can build a career like stones, pink floyd, u2 themselves and all the other great names. nowadays there's no new band which will last more than 5 years or more than the satisfacting dollar bill quote, after which, there's the end. it's the boyband era, the porn girl era (britney, jlo, aguilera......), the NON EXISTENT MUSIC era.

 

[financeguy]

My advice is, listen to the Future Sound of London for hints. The most visionary musicians I have ever heard.

 

[Achtung Joshua!]

No rap or hip/hop I hope

 

[WinnieThePoo]

but loads of Trip - hop & jazz

 

[IWasBored]

not much different than now. trend repeat themselves in various shapes and forms, evolving slightly as the years go by, but i honestly don't think it's going to be like flying cars and teleportation devices.

 

[indra]

not much different than now. trend repeat themselves in various shapes and forms, evolving slightly as the years go by, but i honestly don't think it's going to be like flying cars and teleportation devices.

I agree. There will be new variations, but essentially music isn't going to be wildly different. What's delivered to the masses probably will continue to be the empty, vapid tripe which now all too often passes for music now. But good, even great music will always be made, it's an almost primal need. It may not be heavily promoted and widely distributed, but it will exist.

 

[Jack In The Box]

history is a cycle, even in music

 

[MrBrau1]

Rock and Roll is only 50 somthing years old. Maybe something new and great will come...

Like merging Rock & Hip Hop!

 

[Zoots]

Don't you eventually run out of the permutations and combinations of notes and chords? I've always wondered that. How long can there be original music? Over the last 2 decades or so, we've already seen tons of covers, remixes and alternate versions.

IWasBored is right. There's not gonna be any flying cars, time machines or back-to-the-future type stuff. After all these years, the only thing we really have from those movies like Star Wars and Star Trek are automatic doors. (with apologies to Eddie Izzard )

 

[mkdominatr]

depends on what new instruments are invented....pretend now its before the electric guitar...could you see that one coming?

 

[mkdominatr]

Rock and Roll is only 50 somthing years old. Maybe something new and great will come...

Like merging Rock & Hip Hop!

You mean like linkin park

 

[MrBrau1]

You mean like linkin park

exactly. Or Kid Rock.

 

[Bunbury]

You mean like linkin park

I hope they are extincted by an asteroid like the dinosaurs

 

[mkdominatr]

I hope they are extincted by an asteroid like the dinosaurs

i wouldnt miss them.

 

[hiphop]

50 years from now is very difficult to guess. 5 years in easier.

In 5 years, I think there will be more beeps and bleeps ..since this is what we´re getting used to nowadays. I also predict that for our generation the music the kids do will sound like a cacaphony of dustbins crashing against each other.

 

[Zoomerang96]

My advice is, listen to the Future Sound of London for hints. The most visionary musicians I have ever heard.

wow.

i keep forgetting there's other fsol fans here...

 

[Zoots]

I hope they are extincted by an asteroid like the dinosaurs

funniest comment of the day!

 

[lmjhitman]

i keep forgetting there's other fsol fans here...

we have explosive

 

[typhoon]

1. Black people will come up with something cool.
2. White people will rip it off.
3. When everyone's ripping everyone else off, it'll start to get pretty good.

The circle of life continues.

 

[Saracene]

Don't you eventually run out of the permutations and combinations of notes and chords? I've always wondered that. How long can there be original music? Over the last 2 decades or so, we've already seen tons of covers, remixes and alternate versions.

This brings to mind a story I've read about a famous composer who was walking down the beach with a friend, another famous composer. The friend was lamenting that all the good tunes have already been used and there's nothing new left for anyone to write. As a reply, the composer pointed at the vast ocean and said, "oh look, here comes the last wave". In the same book, they said that the good-tunes-space is in fact so huge that there's no way it's going to be exhausted in the next thousand years or so.

I think that music of the future will be closely tied with whatever technological advancements our society achieves. I mean, if you asked a person from a pre-electricity age what they imagine music of the future will sound like, they sure as hell wouldn't mention electric guitars - their speculations would be based on what was around at their time.

 

[U2DMfan]

more of the same, the cycle will continue until there is new technology.

It was guitar effects that was a big catalyst in the movement of the late 60's, and synths in the new wave movement in the 80's, it was guitar effects again for the big metal movement in the 80's. The rest is cross genre fusions which are getting thinner and thinner as they become more played out.

So I don't think we really will know. I do know to appreciate some of the rock going on right now, because it won't be around for long, it will be replaced by the next cyclical phase, which I guarantee you is gonna SUCK HARD.

You get Green Day and then you get Blink 182 and then A Simple Plan and it gets so bad that people actually stop buying the crap, it usually takes a good 5 years. You get Pearl Jam and then you get Creed and then you get Nickelback and it gets so bad that when people stop buying the crap the cycle can start over again.

So love The Killers, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand before they can be destoyed by clones that are coming, I guarantee you they are coming. And people will buy the shit, and then they will be so sick of the "genre" that the stuff that was good in the first place is relegated to the back shelf making way for the craptastic follow up.

Not that sales or being popular is a litmus test for quality. It's about watering down the sounds. For what once seems like it will be a great "movement" will be killed.

In closing, the future of music is that no matter what, if there is something you love, the industry will destroy it in one way or the other. If you hate it, then it's the same effect. Pop culture for ya.