The future of music?

dee_girl9

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Imagine the year 2020. - Britney Spears is a withered hag. Electronica has become Jazz. Tina Arena is hosting Young Talent Time. Music goes straight from the studio to the net (Napstar and the like) and is downloadable in 30 minutes or its free. Slim Dusty and Peter Andre are stars again, and the latest craze in recording is scraping ex-celebrities off space age skid row and re-packaging them as Slopstars.

The progeny of mega selling stars like Madonna, Michael Jackson and Celine Dion have grown up and found a fork in the Rock and Roll Road to God Knows Where: embrace their musical birthright and risk life in the shadow of their parents . or fly in the face of destiny and risk becoming Priscilla Presley or Chastity Bono.

While the fate of the Jackson kiddies – conceived in a petri dish, nurtured in an oxygen tank and raised among monkeys – was a formality (they became agents), the twin boys of Nick Cave face a longer shadow than most. Twins are different. Cave with his love of biblical prophecy and portent, knew that. The rock bible is crammed with tales of 2 brothers – one good, one evil – serving the ends of their father. (Liam and Noel, Angus and Malcolm, S2S) Nick himself was fond of uttering the line “I come on the name of the father.” But now in the year 2020, did the twins come in the name of theirs?

Kane Cave entered the clergy, abandoning a career in sport on his father’s advice and adopted the family belief that God is everywhere – especially in the darkest corners of Berlin nightclubs. He believes the Devil (Whispering Jack to Earthlings) has manifested itself in the music of aging diva Vanessa Amorosi. Kanes only musical forays to date have been Presbyterian sermons with accompaniment from the veteran Mick Harvey on church organ. A single – “Kylie 3:16” – charted briefly in 2019. He lives quietly in his fathers home parish of Wangaratta.

Abel Cave embarked on a recording career. As frontman for the brash young outfit The Dead ****s, he showed admirable disregard for self preservation while establishing new benchmarks in drugs and blood-fuelled musical theatre. Kickstarting his career with a computerised duet with his father on the song “The Good Son”, Abel embraced white clothing and piano accordian from a young age. He is currently ensconced in a Saturn 17 recording studio with his new band The Bastards, which features Tiger – Lily Hutchenes on vocals, Frances Bean Cobain on guitar, Lourdes Ciccone on keyboards and Darryl Sommers Junior on drums. Remember them when you’re next driving a Rolls Royce into your own gene pool.
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The music I listen to (heavy metal and guitar-driven rock) has evolved rather than changed too substantially.

There is enough diveresity to avoid sub-genres sounding the same, but enough similarities exist to keep a common audience interested.

So many new bands and idiosyncracies are prevalent these days, that there is always new music to discover. If that doesn't tickle my fancy, i will delve back into the 1970s and 1980s to investigate an artist I missed out on - there are so many artists, that there's always ones I miss out on.

My CD collection will always grow at a rapid rate (finances permitting) because with every artist I get interested in, they were in a band or worked with another artist... which opens a door, building what's similar to a family tree that never ends.
 

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Every new rock band that comes out will still sound like Creed. :rolleyes:

Every new pop star that comes out will be 16, 80 pounds, peroxide blonde, sing 120 notes in 5 seconds and be forbidden by law to wear any article of clothing that covers the belly button.

And people like me, who play drums, will probably be working at a real job :(
 

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Originally posted by dee_girl9
While the fate of the Jackson kiddies – conceived in a petri dish, nurtured in an oxygen tank and raised among monkeys – was a formality (they became agents).
Ka-ching! Love it! :D

That's good stuff dee_girl - more please!

Thankfully, popular musical will always be cyclical - each genre has its moment in the sun, and then a new (or old) style of music will muscle in and become the dominant force in the "industry".

Evidence: the ARIA albums charts this week. Numbers 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 are guitar based pop/rock, somthing that wouldn't have happened too many times at any stage through the last five or six years. Joining Alex Lloyd, Garbage, Nickelback, Train, Live and Powderfinger are some compilations from Tracy Chapman, America (!), Cold Chisel, and The Eagles, as well as "new" releases from Lifehouse, Creed, U2, Paul Kelly (
), Something For Kate, Blink 182, Ozzy Osborne and Spiderbait.

Fear not the record companies and their manufactured stars. Real music will be made as long as real people love, hurt, think and feel.

Now, I must rush - have to re-organise the CD collection into chronological order. ;)
 

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Originally posted by Mr Ripper
Hopefully, in 2020 we'll be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the 70s with another 70s revival. :D
Mum will be in her seventies by then, and to see her "walking on stage" in her mini skirt and no knickers may put an end to any 70's revival.

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A few things you forgot to mention about music in twenty years: Page and Plant will still be touring. They still won't use John Paul Jones, and Plant will still smugly be refusing to sing 'Stairway.'

AC/DC will be touring and still refusing to sell beer at their American venues.

The Stones will be on yet another "final tour." Ticket prices will be outrageous, but no one will understand the medium of world dominated Japanese currency exchange. Keith Richards will look terrible.

Britney Spears will indeed look like a hag, and she will try to draw attention to herself by claiming she is a virgin. No one will care for two reasons:

1. Sexually transmitted diseases will have gotten so bad that even musicians will be virgins.

2. Are you serious for wondering what the second reason is?

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And one thing is even surer............SOME incarnation of the Beach Boys will still be touring. :mad: DAMN YOU BROTHER RECORDS!!!!!! :mad:
 
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