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The King is Dead, lets get another.

pointless and uncalled for

11:41 / 31.10.02

What the hell is the next big thing?

It seems to me that dance variants have largely fallen in on themselves and so far none of the pretenders have managed to grab the throne, the crown and the shiny-sceptre-of-ultra-popularity.

R&B seems too self-limiting to take the title and PopStarIdolGroupfromTV music simply doesn't have the saturation. People claim Garage to be the height of music but I don't really see it. Even Boy/Girl bands are clearly dropping off in favour of solo endeavours. In fact that's to the extent that I'm waiting to see if someone will manufacture a group specifically to split up.

So how wrong am I and what will be the next big thing or already is and I haven't noticed it?

As a side note I cannot believe that poeple have fallen for this whole PopStar format of music. WTF?

bio k9

11:57 / 31.10.02

What the hell is the next big thing?

Who cares?

Yeah. Case closed.

The only ones to care are those who's lives depend on it - record companies and journalists.

And the whole point about the next big thing is that you can't really see it coming until it's here. Otherwise you wouldn't get the necessary CULTURE SHOCK high.

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:58 / 31.10.02

R&B seems too self-limiting to take the title

Self-limiting in what way? Certainly not musically - if any other genre has produced a bunch of records more exciting and fresh than 'Addictive', 'Oops (0h My)', and 'Work It Out' this year, I'd like to know about it...

It seems fairly self-evident to me that the R&B/hip-hop/pop axis has come into ascendance in a whole new way - creatively and commercially - in the past couple of years, and that only the most stubborn and parochial of indie rock fans can deny this. What interests me most right now is to see the ways in which this (pretty wide-reaching) scene may interact with others - especially the ones which draw on similar influences, for example there seems an obvious correlation to me between the Neptunes' brand of sleazy funk and the whiteboy version, electroclash - there's a very similar aesthetic, and not just in terms of music.

at the scarwash

16:14 / 31.10.02

"The only ones to care are those whose lives depend on it - record companies and journalists."

Pepsi Max

But don't you hope that somewhere someone's coming up with a musical revolution on the scale of say, punk rock, or hip hop? I haven't been an adult during any real Next Big Things (unless you count the whole Nirvana/College Rock Breakout business, and that really wasn't so novel).

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