Thread 127620453

What's the actual future of music? Mainstream music but even the indie scene is fucked right now.
Poptimism like Roan and all the others, the slop of country everyone is doing, rap dying, rock still fucking dead, what evolves from here? Is this the period before Nirvana and glam rock was still at full power or is it worse?

>>127620453 (OP)
Kpop

People will just listen to old music and artists like Taylor Swift and Drake will just keep releasing mediocre slop till they are old and people will listen to it because there is no better alternative.

in the 2010s music got wittled down to pop and pop rap.

Thanks to the poptimist mind virus the present and future of music is never ending white girl pop slut factory and mumble rappers.

They will have taken over completely but still act like they are the underdog

>>127620453 (OP)
Pop music died with Michael Jackson

>>127620453 (OP)
This is worse

As much as some of that hair shit sucked at least they could play their instruments. There is no forward for music as long as everyone is making songs for Tik Tok

Music used to a mostly collective thing until the 2010s. Everyone has turbo-niche tastes now, which means once all the big name musicians die out, there won’t anything (living) that people can rally around

>>127620453 (OP)
Country.

>>127620453 (OP)
>What's the actual future of music?
exploring, listening to and enjoying music on your own, without worrying about "who else" likes or doesn't like stuff. The future of music is the death of the insecure audience.

if you're still sniveling about the popularity of pop, rap or whatever artist has hurt your fee-fees, and still paying attention to "critics" and RYM aggregate scores, then you've been left behind from music and don't even know it. And it's nobody's fault but your own.

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Alt R'n'B, apparently. Even the Bieber is actually charting nowadays doing this shit.

>>127620598
Michael Jackson is number 41 worldwide on Spotify's monthly listeners with over 53 million. Current artists are quite lame when legacy acts like MJ are still that successful.

>>127623374
Nah. If there had been streaming in the 80's, old acts from the 70's and 60's would still chart. Artists didn't change, technology did.

>>127620453 (OP)
At least a decade of generic AI slop background music to vibe/study/drive/do laundry to before we abandon technology and start banging on shit and making noise again.

What I really don't understand is the levels of social and political unrest we're dealing with and punk is still dead as shit or at least on life support. Even pop punk barely made a resurgence.

They say numetal is back, but other than some Zoomies fangirling over Deftones, I don't see it.

>>127620453 (OP)
I think we're about to make a shift.
Mainstream is pretending to be interesting (I like it more then most of the 2010's but thats not a high bar), and indie is just copying shit from 20-30 years ago.
What we need is the indie scene to get out of the box a little and for record labels to do the same and be willing to take in more then just the progeny of people who've already found success

>>127623493
numetal is definitely back for teens, but its mostly trendchasing, and is numetal really the saviour to music we're hoping for?

>>127623374
Because MJ is timeless. Even Off The Wall still slaps and it's been 46 years.

>>127623697
It is?

Wait, tell me you don't mean Sleep Token, for fuck's sake.

AI generated music with hologram tours.

>>127623734
Nah my partners brother and his friends (and of course his tiktok feed) is super into all the old numetal shit. Korn, bizkit, deftones, filter. His friends are even in a band playing shit like chevelle and perfect circle too...
They're all shallow fucks tho. I don't see it lasting for 90% of the young zoomers

>>127623772
THANKS GORILLAZ

>>127623784
Billie is the youngest of the three btw

>>127623374
i'm pretty sure that's less a statement on the quality of our current crop of artists and more an instance of an insanely famous popstar's music aging gracefully

>>127620453 (OP)
why are half the posts on this board people dooming about modern music?? do you fuckers literally only pay attention to shit that charts? it's the only actual explanation for the brain disease you people have

>>127620453 (OP)
Are you retarded ?

Just because the mainstream scene is full with the same shit doesn't mean that music is dead lmao, like you can go back to every decade and see how music shifted all the time, we had classical music then we moved onto blues and jazz, then ballads, then rock, then metal, pop music isn't a genre, you just need to search for music, I could agree if you said music is relying too much on engineering and electronic sounds, but O still think there's a shit ton of music besides what you see on billboard, I listen to rap mostly so I know there's a ton of rap albums about and not just Drake or shit like that.

>>127623866
You know. I can't help but being puzzled at how every - single - time without fail one of you casuals gives the "um, there's tons of GOOD current music, akshully" spiel, you never can come up with a single example.

Weird.

>>127623879
pls give us recs (preferably in the rock genre) cuz frankly the indie scene is just repeating what we heard 20 years ago at the moment

>>127623945
this

>>127620453 (OP)
The future of music lies within the context of the future. Meaning: there will be a new, previously uncharted spatial context for people to listen to and digest music. Much like streaming changing people's approach to music. Might have something to do with VR.

>>127623945
fairly sure whatever albums i put will get shot down but sure i'll bite
ill put some fairly popular examples as well
imaginal disk, ants from up there, skinty fia
or plan 75 and a lonely sinner, slightly lesser known
and if u disagree ur a faggot sorry

>>127624036
>imaginal disk
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAH

>>127624036
you don't know jack shit about music, do you?

>>127624086
drop an album u like rn

>>127624036
This poster is a fat fucking queer woman

>>127624093
dr john - the sun, moon, & herbs

>>127624036
>skinty fia
XD
>imaginal disk
super kek oml
>ants from up there
this is a larp right? all of these recs are gonna be larps?
>plan 75
sounds like a bside for that ants from up there album
>a lonly sinner
fine

you can say whatever you want but you have to be correct for us to want to agree with you

>>127624036
Did you just go to the Fantano channel and picked albums he seems to like?

>>127620453 (OP)
Something like the windmill scene but larger scale and less derivative should kickstart the new rock age.
If it can half-happen it can happen-happen, you just gotta believe.

>>127620453 (OP)

>What's the actual future of music?


NOT ANGLO.

I reckon there's a finite number of styles you can make with various instruments, voices, and arrangements, and computers have pretty much done them all by now. So probably an endless cycle of reviving old styles for new generations.

AI generated music and live avatars is also a bit of a wildcard regarding future profitability of the industry in general.

Whatever Gen Alpha decide to do

>>127620453 (OP)
just automated foot prints and go it alone

>>127623774
>my partner
Kys faggot

>>127623774
How old are these guys

>>127620453 (OP)
I think I am becoming an annoying hippie in my old age because I actually think if Trump wasn't elected TikTok would be banned and then we could literally have an artistic renaissance and global happiness would ensue.

>>127628362
get over yourself senpai. you wouldn't have liked if i called them my bf so fuck off
>>127628377
young zoomers. I think they're all 17 or 18 but it seems like folks of similar age are in a similar place

>>127623493
I think we can save music if zoomers would stop copying the 80s and copy Portishead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf-LyfuRBXE&list=RDPf-LyfuRBXE&start_radio=1

Except instead of going the obvious rap direction with this you soften up a smidge and make it a little less repetitive and add Tate McCrae vocals.

>>127628503
ur so cute~

>>127620453 (OP)
>What's the actual future of music?
House and techno, anon. The answer is always house and techno.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7e554NKIs0

Probably that little kid who rapped about how he hates gay people.

Kids don’t have garages to form bands or the class consciousness to write anything meaningful. No one collabs creatively. The future of music is weirdo loners who make music for niche audiences.

>>127628575
>The future of music is weirdo loners who make music for niche audiences.
And thats a GOOD thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAieMMmtlu8

>>127628575
That's not the future. That's already been the case for the past 15 years at the very least.

>>127628616
>posts very basic hard bass

>>127628815
>hard bass
lol
ELECTRO PUNK is the future, anon
https://youtu.be/vv_lKuMudnI?si=Ii8emhXF0qIpKV_J&t=894

>>127629175
More like electro junk
Lol
Sit down son.

>>127628575
I was going to object to the "kid" remark but I realized I'm 24 now those days are long gone

>>127629208
lol grandpa thinks we'll listen to guitars and pianos

>>127629223
Hey listen squirt, buddy, pal
Embrace the Progosphere

>>127628434
Welp I can rest now lmao. If the younger half in America have a couple of Nu Metal bands then all I'd good. There's been a wave of Screamo, Metalcore and Deathcote bands as well so rock might be back and when Gen Alpha in righteous fury picks at my corpse I can have some degree of peace.

>>127624970
The windmill scene was already derivative but some of them had ok songs.
They just managed to prolong the illusion that there's still a thriving rock scene.

>>127629457
I'll die on a hill saying Squid had good songs. Geordie Greep had some decent to okay solo material as well.

>>127620592
>in the 2010s music got wittled down to pop and pop rap.
yeah country music disappeared completely

>>127624036
you were right they would just bitch and moan lol

>>127623951
Well regarding "indie" music I have few recommendations and it's not gonna be rock or midwestern shit, I listen to indie electronic and synth music and I don't believe the bullshit of I only listen to musicians from my shitty town with less of 54 listeners, while I understand Indie means no record deal with a big music label or production by themselves, I'll deem indie as non mainstream music.

Hyperpop/electronic:
-Benzii - spirallore +++
-Djmegan23 - dopamine machine 2
-echo angel - echo angel / moonlight
-Blawhitt - any single does it for me

Easy to call tiktok core but honestly this albums are good, so fuck it

Garage rock:
Constant mongrel - living in excellence
Stock manager - VHS rock tape 1 ( I only recommend grow the few and under ashes but feel free to listen to the album)

Pretty basic, but I will agree with everyone saying rock is deadhis just fill the blvoid for it when I'm tired of grunge classics l

Black metal:

Medvsa - Medvsa

Punk:

Cancer slug

Mainstream metal/punk is dead, only good metal/punk bands are hidden in a shit concert you pay 10 bucks to get in,
I honestly have a lot of other bands, like for post hardcore and shit like that, but I just want to get my point across.

>>127620453 (OP)
lol at that cover edit

>>127624036
these are definitely some album titles typed out in a row… thanks for that, anon :)

>>127628575
>The future of music is weirdo loners who make music for niche audiences.
so, Ariel Pink?… oh, I mean The Cleaners From Venus.

If someone uses Reddit

spacing in a post, then I

don't reply to it

Simple as.

>>127621060
>being able to bond with other people over shared music tastes is bad, actually
Have you honestly never talked to people about music? It's honestly one of the best small talk options if you're able to figure out what common ground you have with someone

>>127631755
r stevie moore

>>127634678
nice strawman. That's not what I meant and you know it. In fact, it's the literal opposite of the obvious intent of what i was talking about.

listening and enjoying music without giving a fuck what others think is not the same as "never talking about music" with other people.

The difference is that if you're talking with music with someone, and they lack the maturity to be like "I just didn't get it / like it" and instead go "HAHAH THAT MUSIC SUCKS AND YOU HAVE SHIT TAStE" then that person is to be avoided at all costs. The insecurity that drives the worldview of haters is what's sorting the haters of music.

It used to be that haters could say shit like that because they're insecure narcissists and could turn the conversation towards them (the haters) and their hate instead of keeping the conversation about the music. But any more when people start up with that shit IRL, they get ignored.

Concomitantly, the insecurity that caused a great deal of people to self-filter is going away in deference to "who am I trying to impress"? So the conversations about music become more genuine, because the kind of twatwaffle that goes "oh you just say you like that to look deep" again, gets ignored.

/mu/ is becoming somewhat of an anachronism in that regard. Insecurity abounds, and people still act like haters' and critics' opinions matter.

>>127620453 (OP)
as long as old music is a thing, who cares?

>>127620453 (OP)
I want to put my penis between her sole and her shoe and pump away until I cum