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Its That New Thing (Same as the old thing)

kaonashi

19:49 / 21.02.03

Does anyone here feel prophetic about where music is going in the next couple of years? Are any of you sitting on a couple of bands that might make the next movement? As a musician I've got my own ideas and most of them involve killing rock and hiphop stone cold so that we can move on. I'd love to see someone (namely me) combine a folk sensibility with electronic instruments and political awareness. And have it be pop as hell, and mean.

But this doesn't strike me as the next big idiom. Rock and Hip hop are dead as doornails people. Going back to basics is not going to help. They are having no new ideas, its time to get over it. And not talking about fucking post rock, its not a genre.

I would suggest that the home computer is the biggest musical innovation in the last 1000 years. Its going to change the possiblities for small non commercial outfits more than anything else.

Matthew Fluxington

20:00 / 21.02.03

(shakes head)

"Movements" and things like that are the invention of bad journalists, unimaginative songwriters, and record companies. Don't get sucked into that dead-end fashion-obsessed way of thinking, it'll kill your appreciation of music.

Saying that "rock and hip hop are dead" is just stupid. Try telling that to the millions of people for whom that music is major source of joy and satisfaction in their lives. No amount of pretentious postering and doomsaying is going to kill that. Some things may not speak to you, but it's not about you.

My prediction: people will keep making music, lots of different kinds of music. Some of it will be popular, but most of it won't. Some of it will be really wonderful, just like always. Most people won't even know about a lot of it til much later on, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. People come around to things when they do.

kaonashi

20:34 / 21.02.03

Maybe the next thing is that there will be so many options that you won't be able to cram them in separate boxes and sell your magazine to impressionable teenagers with disposable incomes. You're totally, totally right, I tend to fall back on this way of thinking if I'm bored or pissed. But seriously its nice to be able speculate about whats going to happen even if it stays out pretentiousness genre smashing.

Seth

21:18 / 21.02.03

Maybe the next thing is that there will be so many options that you won't be able to cram them in separate boxes and sell your magazine to impressionable teenagers with disposable incomes.

I have no memory of a time when this was not the case.

Locust No longer

21:51 / 21.02.03

If Steve Guttenberg ever makes an album I'm sure it'll be the best thing ever.

Matthew Fluxington

22:41 / 21.02.03

Ah, but that goes against that one Simpsons episode...

"Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do! WE DO!"

I'm sure that cabal would have pulled those strings and had a hit Guttenberg record by now...

Seth

05:54 / 22.02.03

Every post either catches Flux; 1. Just as he's finished his drink ("Ah"); or 2. In a moment of considered disagreement ("Erm").

rizla mission

14:26 / 24.02.03

"Movements" and things like that are the invention of bad journalists, unimaginative songwriters, and record companies. Don't get sucked into that dead-end fashion-obsessed way of thinking, it'll kill your appreciation of music.

That's basically what I was gonna say.

"Where's music going to go in the next couple of years?"

Same answer as always - EVERYWHERE!

I get really, really annoyed whenever I read somebody saying a musical genre has died / is dying. That's just stupid talk. Take ANY genre, past or present, and I guarantee they'll be some people somewhere in the world still making it and an audience still rockin' it.. it's just the media focus which changes..

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