The signs are all there. This 鈥済lorious鈥?period of rock will mercifully come to end soon, erupting in a tidal wave of inventory for whatever used CDs stores remain in business. So, what will be the next new trend? Will it be totally brand new (doubtful) or another recycling of the past? We tried swing and the whole Daddy-O thing in the 90鈥檚 but it faded fast. I think it鈥檚 going to be the barbershop quartet. Because nothing says passion quite like four dudes with candy-cane suits and handlebar moustaches singing a cappella. Plus, I could see a natural gravitation to this new craze by the former emo generation. Barbers always have plenty of sharp instruments on premise. Sylvia - I got my clown collar back from the dry cleaner. Glad you're amused. :) You want my honest opinion? Armpit music. Nothing says 鈥渆mo is dead and I鈥檝e moved on鈥?better than body percussion. Trust me on this one. A sudden resurgence of... Skiffle!
But most of todays teenagers probably have no idea what a tea-chest or a washboard are :(
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The only thing I know about Skiffle is that Lonnie Donegan {'The King of Skiffle'} is one of the most well known players of the genre. Rckets, you make me laugh.
Well, assuming that post-emo doesn't catch on (Yikes!)
Can I vote for Salampasu Tribal music?
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Your clown collar? You made me think of Joe Pesci....
"I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to f-in' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?"
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Thank God, Rckets! And I promise not to make you get your shine box. lol well if emo dies the only band i dont want to go is MCR. But if it does die i bet you disco comes back. Look at that one Good Charlotte song, that sounds just like a disco song just with some harder guitars thats all. So i wouldnt be suprized to see disco come back, how ever i hope id doesnt. The second coming of Disco - Time to break out your velvet blue leisure suit Polka Bands!!! Emo will die and then Disco will have a resurgence that will take over the whole musical world.
Then the icecaps will melt from the global warming produced by the production of all the polyester needed for disco duds and the world as we know it will come to an end. The sad and stark reality of this question is that Emo, as an artistic musical style, will never die. It may take another name and become reborn, into another whiny, crybaby form of emotion invoking music, but it will never truly die in the sense that we'd like to think and hope that it would.
As long as there are hormones, teen angst, and cry baby teens who think that life should be fair and that whatever doesn't happen in life according to their wants and desires is unfair, there will surely be Emo.
Stupid crybabies. Bands produced by Disney! 70's philly soul will rebound. Good beats, catchy hooks. Barry White, The O'jays etc. There's so much crap that comes out everyday and when you hear it you just wonder "how the hell did this make it" so who knows anymore,it seems like any old garbage is "in" now or however they feel that week,you never know where it's going but whoever drives that bus cant see worth a sh*t and is totally hammered African tribal music. Can't you see it happening?
Edit: But in all seriousness, Metal is the one genre that keeps growing and growing despite its change over the course of the decades. It'll probably be another rap/hip hop phase. It's easy to go back to because it can be marketed on MTV, in clubs, sporting venues, etc. Also, the production is way down because it's centered around a single performer that is mixed to shreds in a studio, backed by the studio band and a computer. With the low cost associated with the production of material, and the ease at which it is marketed, it's a quick buck. And most major labels would be lying if they said it wasn't about the quick buck.
Pop bands are similar in nature, only it's a few guys singing backed by the house band and mixed to no end. If it can't be big band or swing, then Irish drinking songs need to be the next big thing.
Edit: Can't we have both? I really want swing to come back!
Right on, MachPen! :) It really is anyone's guess, man. All each of us can do is *hope* our favorite sounds make a come back. In my case, it's be nice to see good, gutsy, no BS hard rock return.
I can't hope for prog to be mainstream again. It'd gotten too much flack over the last 2 decades. But that's fine by me. :) Goodness, I don't know. Pop-funk-punk-opera-ambient Metal, perhaps?
ha. =/
But i'd like some Goth Rock, or for Riot Grrls to take over the music scene, please.
Then again - the former emos might take /that/ over and sully their good names...
bleh.
rocket queen; I'm glad I changed my yahoo name. People would have thought we were the same person, with our similar answers and the like. My vote is on
post-symphonic-progressive-
-viking-punk-rap-core.
Its big with the in crowd these days.
No joke.
Cinnamon: they really might lol.. after i posted my answer i read yours and i was like oh bugger, me and cinammon yet again have similar answers.
& then theres our GNR obsessions.
But you know what they say.. great minds think alike! I honestly think it's going to be the rebirth of classic rock, or retro-metal as it's called now I think. We kinda saw it start to happen around 2001/2002 with JET and The Darkness before emo killed them off. I think once emo dies, those guys can make a resurgence with the likes of Wolfmother and The Sword as well. With the Dropkick Murphys mixing Irish influences with punk, then surely Cockney Rhyming Heavy Metal can't be too far behind. The glory days of the bagpipe rock will be upon us!
Again, the Dropkick Murphys have already begun this invasion, and other groups will follow suit...just think, no amplifier needed! And no instrument is quite as despised and beloved. I hope it's barber shoppe! That would be the best thing to happen to music in at least my memory. Can you imagine a bunch of douche-bag rebellious young rockers with long, grungy hair and crappy goatees getting all "hello my baby, hello my honey, all the live long dayyyyyyyy" on it. Beautiful!
What about educational, school house rocks-y stuff. In a total flip around, rebellion against the vaccuous nature of the current pop culture. I'd like it at least.
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Maybe I should have left what I had before. I got some thumbs for it, but I saw the bar was higher so I adjusted. Happened very quickly. Needless to say, it had to do with just more whiney kids whining.
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I'd like to hang out in James M's future. Good old honest soul music. I could see it too. hmm after emo will come Super-scene music. A mix of dance/techno and screamo. There will be extreme-skanking. Emo will never die.
it will just keep recreating itself. Everybody loves a polka!! Rckets: Didn't the Simpsons try barbershop quartet several seasons ago? "Baby on Board...." Dang it, now I have that song in my head...
Anyway, I'm hoping for nu-gaze or a Madchester revival, but my bets are on post-pop-punk (aka the second coming of college rock... ) Just put some pretentious, overly serious lyrics over thinly-veiled arena rock and the emos will come...
Edit: Rckets, I tried to find a link to the Simpsons barbershop quartet on Youtube and couldn't find the original clip from the show in English. But there are a heck of a lot of ukulele versions... maybe that will be the next craze. judging from the revivals of disco and punk followed by hair metal
I'd say an obsession with late 80s house music and raves, some sort of return to speed metal, the return of grunge, and every song you ever found annoying in the 90s.
Marcy Playground, POT USA, Goo Go Dolls & any other band that ever played Lollapalooza played in every bar for 90s nights and rewarmed reunion tours.
Revivals seem to run 20 years past, with the exception of Rockabilly, which comes around every ten years or so (only sometimes they call it punk.) Metal Blue Grass I like what you're thinking; I wonder about the same thing myself. Here's what I'd guess:
Firstly, the void is already being filled. As was mentioned earlier, Groups like Dropkick Murphy's and Flogging Molly have a following, and angry kids are now listening to angry irishmen singing folk-influenced rants. I personally think that kids are getting into to more social, "folky" music that friends can get involved with more easily.
I mean, look at the facts: Barbershop is more popular now than it was 10 years ago. The winner of their last international chorus competition was a bunch of guys from California, under 30. This isn't an "old guy's hobby" anymore. Kids (especially musicians) are always trying to get further and further out of "the box." It looks like they're about to make the inevitable "full circle" and discover Irish jigs and Barbershop harmony as though it was an artifact from space, rather than their own forgotten heritage. It's happened to religion (look at the soaring stats for Traditionalist Catholicism and Orthodoxy), and I think it's happening in music, too. If I'm right, then look out for tomorrow's youth hollering raucus choruses in pubs and parking lots, and playing together in bigger jam sessions than you'd have thought possible. Let's hope so, anyway; a guy can dream. :)
--Edit: Oh, and Bluegrass too. Of course.... Emo will never die!!!
And if it does (RIP my friend), I think techno rock will take emo's lovely, beautiful, and tragic place.
I LOVE techno rock. =) | 