I was having a discussion today on music and how it has progressed and changed an how each decade for the last 50 years has seemed to have at least one large musical revolution or change...exept for the current one. Nothing revolutionary has happened to music for a long time.
The 50's saw the rise of blues and the doo-wop motown groups, and rock n' roll was essentialy born around this time.
The 60's saw the growth of folk and politicly conscience lyrics along with the Psychedelic stuff.
The 70's were when "metal" really got it's roots established and the decade also saw more long winded songs and great musicianship. This last musical change was rebelled against in the late 70's with the super aggresive and abrasive punk scene. Disco was also created and became huge. Thats three biggies in one decade.
The 80' had both the mainstream musical revolution with the introduction of new wave and the poularity glam and the more underground developement of many of our beloved metal stylings(ie. thrash).
The 90's had the massive upsurge of grunge and alternative and the mainstreaming of hip-hop. hell, even nu-metal started in the later 1990's.
Now, not much musical progress has been made in the last 5 years and so far I don't see much on the horizon for the next 5 either. This decade is going to be hard to talk about on VH1 in the next 20 years because there isn't going to be much to talk about. The only things that i have really noticed is the large semi-underground return of hardcore, to a certain extent. It seems to be the big new trend with kids these days, and the rising popularity of country...not sure were this came from...other than that, not much is going on.
My question to you is, what, in your opininion is going to be the next big step or change in music, and when do you think it'll happen? Not just in metal but in music in general. It seems like not much more can be done that would really make as big of an impact as the changes made in previous decades had.
The 50's saw the rise of blues and the doo-wop motown groups, and rock n' roll was essentialy born around this time.
The 60's saw the growth of folk and politicly conscience lyrics along with the Psychedelic stuff.
The 70's were when "metal" really got it's roots established and the decade also saw more long winded songs and great musicianship. This last musical change was rebelled against in the late 70's with the super aggresive and abrasive punk scene. Disco was also created and became huge. Thats three biggies in one decade.
The 80' had both the mainstream musical revolution with the introduction of new wave and the poularity glam and the more underground developement of many of our beloved metal stylings(ie. thrash).
The 90's had the massive upsurge of grunge and alternative and the mainstreaming of hip-hop. hell, even nu-metal started in the later 1990's.
Now, not much musical progress has been made in the last 5 years and so far I don't see much on the horizon for the next 5 either. This decade is going to be hard to talk about on VH1 in the next 20 years because there isn't going to be much to talk about. The only things that i have really noticed is the large semi-underground return of hardcore, to a certain extent. It seems to be the big new trend with kids these days, and the rising popularity of country...not sure were this came from...other than that, not much is going on.
My question to you is, what, in your opininion is going to be the next big step or change in music, and when do you think it'll happen? Not just in metal but in music in general. It seems like not much more can be done that would really make as big of an impact as the changes made in previous decades had.
I believe they're calling it Avante-Guard Black Metal or something.
