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deadhed

Looking at the music scene today, I feel prepared to make a few predictions:

1. Pop music will move towards hip-hop, rap will move towards pop. NSync will disappear in 2 years or so, much like BSB. Pop music will become decidedly more urban.

2. Nu-metal/suicide rock/other assorted noises will be a passing trend. Bands like Staind will (sadly take over the rock scene) Scary stuff like Mudvayne, System of a Down, etc... won't last for a while because their music sucks and people will: a)find their music unlistenable and move onto bands with more melodic rage. b)commit suicide because of the secret messages in the songs.

3. The rock scene will regress to an alternative mid-90s sound. This (actually) is a good thing looking at what music is being produced now.

4. Kid Rock will be playing with a lighter in his trailer home and will catch one of his 80% polyester wife-beater shirts on fire. He will be engulfed in flames and quickly die. Pamela Anderson, who was at waist-level at the time of the incident, will melt.

5. Global warming will melt the ice caps and we will all die. This global warming will be caused by the pollution that comes from a factory in Guatemala that is currently working at 200% capacity, which makes "WP", "YEM", and "GD" stickers that yuppies stick on the back of SUVs.

Feel free to make any follow-up predictions...

 

techno_trancer

Im sorry but metal and hard rock will NEVER DIE, infact its gaining momentum and popularity, more and more of the peeps into the rap/hip-hop scene are moving to bands like system and static x, its not going to die out just yet

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FootlongFatty

oh cmon, what are you talking about. the day hip-hop and rap moves toward pop music is the day i shoot myself. i can see pop trying to be cool by moving toward more rap and hip-hop stuff, but that's just because they suck so much. rap and hip/hop would never even think about moving towards the pop scene. rap and hip-hop is all about NOT being a bunch of pretty-boys put toghether by bigass companies to sing like girls..and its obvious they never will be.

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deadhed

Footlong: I don't see some of the better rap artists (IMO Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre...admittedly, I don't know many rap artists.) will probably not move towards pop, but look at Ja Rule/Jennifer Lopez as an example. Keep in mind I'm not seeing a Aaron Carter/Dr. Dre collaboration, but a subtle blending is going on. JayZ: All his songs are Rap Lite. He might keep the urban sound, but all the contents of his songs are pure sugar-coated pop. This is true for a lot of rappers.

Techno: I'm not saying that its gonna die, I just think it's gonna fall out of the mainstream soon. Bands like Pantera, Iron Maiden, etc... have had their brief moments in the sun, but for the most part they have been plodding along with a small but devoted fanbase. Mudvayne's videos just don't meet the requirements for playing on TRL. I truly am hoping that these bands fall out of MTV rotation, because right now they're bleeding integrity at an incredibly fast rate

FootlongFatty

Ok i see your point with the jarule/jlo, but thats a really slight blending because its still rap and j-lo isn't really pop.

As for Jay-Z, how can you say his songs are sugar-coated pop when pop is a bunch of computerized sounds with high pitched harmonic voices, usually very upbeat. Jay-z is definately lighter rap, but that doesnt in any way make it closer to pop than anything else, even considering the lyrics. His song aren't like " baby ohhhh baby , i love staring in your eyes", which most pop is like.

I can see rap/hip-hop becoming more open, but POP is the last thing i can see coming into the rap scene.

 

Know_your_weed

arnt you forgeting puff daddy? (or whatever the hell hes called these days)
he is pop through and through

TheCleric

Easy there deadhed i can see why you would say that most metal noise bands arent anything more than angry but system of a down does not belong in that grouping.

These guys have purpose to most of their songs, either they are written in response to the armenian genocide(pluck), the war on drugs(prison song), the governments ways of controlling us(spiders), or the affect that music has on fans (psycho).

They greatly differ from bands like mudvayne, slipknot, and all other bands who are simply trying to produce a heavier sound with no actual feeling to it, or melody. My friends told me the new slipknot album was supposed to be the heaviest ever, and it is, but its also the ugliest hunk of music i have ever heard.

I can understand your prediction about things, and i hope pamela melts, but just because they are loud and sound like metal doesnt mean they are singing to scare you, and system of a down has a lot of good lyrics and melodic songs, i dont think these guys will fade at all, i think they will keep maturing their sound and expand it to different genres.

Now heres my prediction.

In less than 2 years every 15 year old you know will be listening to old school punk, donning leather jackets, getting mohawks, and calling everyone who doesnt support "anarchy" a poser. JC penny will start selling clothes to appeal to this new sensation of pop punk rock, and several bands will also cater to it (blink 182 in particular) And unless you like the true underground, never been heard of, probably sucks, local punk band then you will always be called a poser.

Cleric

FootlongFatty

You obviously don't have a clue what pop and rap are.

schwadood

I think we already know that anything on MTV is watered down. When you water something down you take out the emotion, making it pop, or closer to pop. I, for one, could care less about the direction of pop music. If I hear something that gets me off, I dig it. I don't think the music that does that to me will ever be on the charts.

P.S. Deadhead, I have a YEM sticker on my car (not an SUV, big ol' station wagon with wood paneling), and I don't think they sell enough of those stickers for it to cause global harm. Then again, I'm not a yuppie.

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dank nuggets

puff daddy is not hiphop.
puff daddy is not rap.
puff daddy is pop.
an example of rap is big l.
an example of hiphop is quasimoto.
and if jennifer lopez isn't pop the what the f*ck is she?
and ja rule is no thug, he's a ladylovin pop artist with a new video every day.
a real thug is big l. (r.i.p.)

and some rap (puff daddy, nelly, ja rule) is turning into pop.
but real hiphop will never change.
as long as it has a video on mtv, it is pop or will turn into pop.
underground hiphop is one of the only true forms of music still around.

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