Predominant music genre nowadays?

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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We've been through different eras in pop music. We had punk in the mid 70s, new wave and synthpop in the 80s, acid/house was kicking off in the late 80s. 1991 was rave, jungle emerging in 1993 and went overground in 1994. Reggae was big in 1994 but only in that year. 1995 was the Britpop year. 'Dreamland' music (coined by Robert Miles) in 1996 developed into trance music. Upsurge in boybands after Take That's split also in 1996. Then it was garage in 1997/8, hard house in year 2000 and the early 2000s. Then DJ Sammy killed dance music in 2002.

Whenever I listen to radio 1 or hear MP3 players blasting out on trains/buses over the last few years, it is mostly R'n'B music. Like as if it's the most predominant genre now. It's not even decent R'n'B, like the mid 1990s when you had talents such as Brownstone. Does anyone else feel that it's gone on for too long now?

I say bring back jungle before it became drum'n'base :-)
 
Oh gawd don't get my started on auto-tuning! No matter how good it is on voices, it is still blatant. I will only allow auto-tuning on one artist, and I gotta give that award to Daft Punk. Too much of that psuedo-electropop too, and people trying to copy Gaga's style.

Since 2003 or so, I've been digging into the likes of Soundclick to get the style of music that I want, as unsigned artists. For older pop classics, I tune into Signal One (Staffordshire/Cheshire station). For 4-on-the-floor dance music, I gotta say that Ministry of Sound still do some listen-able mixes and mash ups.
 
Autotune.

That's right, it's a genre all of it's own. And it's rubbish.

There's a lot of dross about these days, can't bear to watch videos on tv anymore.
 
Autotune black pop. It actually gone full circle this year, as 90% of productions appear to be self caricature - queue One-never-heard-of-one-hit-wonder-autotune-artist featuring Another-barely-known-two-hit-wonder-autotune-artist - make it Mickey Minje featuring Draculy or some other Rudolf Kev featuring Lilly Whiny or something to that effect. Every now and then a talentless yob or chavette with good studio backing is propped by "rispekted this year" industry name - any Timberlandlake, Kanine Puff Doggy West or Tayo Pain Neyo Akon will do, really.

One of my favourite last year was a bunch of wtf-are-you nobodies called Cash Money Hoes or something like that singing proudly "We made it", and I kid you not, not a single mug featured in the production would be recognizable by nickname to regular member of general public (like your mum). Fame, turns out, not what it used to be.

;)
 
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there isnt one , not in the UK anyway , not now we are so 'multicultural'

oh and whole opening post seems to be full of just what OP personally liked and then didnt like once something newer and trendier came along.

eg, as amazing as acid house was it was never a 'pop' genre for the masses. theres probably as many people still listening to and making it as there ever was , every few years it gets 'cool' again though with a sudden extra influx , its arguably in one of these periods right now. im sure cheesy dance , pop rock etc are the same
 
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Being a tad pedantic; Auto Tune is an actual product (Melodyne is another) used for pitch correction and is pretty much essential to most genres of music for vocal correction. Used properly it'll be barely noticeable to the listener unless the vocalist is completely of key/pitch.
'AutoTune', the mislabelled Cher-esque/robotic vocal effect, is 95 percent (crank up the settings on Auto Tune and you will get something similar) of the time a vocoder eg: 'Believe' used a digitech talker vocoder rather than Auto Tune.

I completely agree with everyone in saying that this effect is used far too much in recent music and usually results in the track sounding tacky.

Going back to the OP, I’m with shaffaaf27 in saying that Dubstep is playing a huge part in music at the moment.
 
visibleman said:
'AutoTune', the mislabelled Cher-esque/robotic vocal effect, is 95 percent (crank up the settings on Auto Tune and you will get something similar) of the time a vocoder eg: 'Believe' used a digitech talker vocoder rather than Auto Tune.
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It was, actually, Antares Auto-Tune with crazy settings.
 
v0n said:
Autotune black pop.

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To the OP: This mass-market autotuned r'n'b has killed of the pleasure of going into town for me. I absolutely love dance music and up to a couple of years ago pubs and clubs in towns were buzzing with decent dance music. Even chart stuff used to be good. Go further back to 1995 and 1996 and they were epic years for mainstream dance. Now I can't bear to be in town watching white boys and girls trying to groove to this undanceable black rubbish.

One of my clubbing mates from way back said that the blacks didn't like rave, trance and hard house because it didn't suit their ryhthm. You never did see that many blacks in Gatecrasher for instance. They'd owned dance music since motown/northern soul, right through disco and house and garage. Acid House changed the demographic until right through the late nineties when speed garage ran alongside trance in dance clubs. Then UK garage (2-step?) came around and all of a sudden idiots like DJ Spoony and Trevor Nelson were all over it like it was the savior of dance music. Nah, they just wanted back what young white people had taken from them.

I can't pinpoint exactly where in the 2000's it went wrong because as I'm getting older (38) I am out and about less and less and we have Radio 2 on at work, but i did have the misfortune to hear Fearne Cotton last week on R1 and I'm not surprised music's in the state it's in if everything's as "Brilliant!" as she says it is - even when it is blatantly terrible.

And that's not racist. It's an observation.
 
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^ That first one made me laugh. You know those people you get hanging around in toilets handing out mints and cologne? My brother has affectionately named them "bog ****" :D
 
TheCenturion said:
I'm sorry but... what :confused:
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He means the revival of reggae in 1993 and 1994, with the likes of Chaka Demus and Pliers, Bitty McLean, Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, and also the bastardized strains like Snow and Apache Indian and Peter Andre.

Those really were two terrible years for pop music.
 
ElvisFan said:
He means the revival of reggae in 1993 and 1994, with the likes of Chaka Demus and Pliers, Bitty McLean, Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, and also the bastardized strains like Snow and Apache Indian and Peter Andre.

Those really were two terrible years for pop music.
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There was loads of reggae before and after that though :\

In the 70s there were people like Ken Boothe, John Holt, Eddy Grant.

The 80s gave people like Maxi Priest, UB40

I'm not sure about the 90s tbh :p

In the 2000s, you've got the likes of Damian Marley, Jah Cure, Bedouin Soundclash.

So to be honest, I don't really agree with the statement.
However, I was born in 1994, and reggae is my favourite genre.
 
TheCenturion said:
There was loads of reggae before and after that though :\

In the 70s there were people like Ken Boothe, John Holt, Eddy Grant.

The 80s gave people like Maxi Priest, UB40

I'm not sure about the 90s tbh :p

In the 2000s, you've got the likes of Damian Marley, Jah Cure, Bedouin Soundclash.

So to be honest, I don't really agree with the statement.
However, I was born in 1994, and reggae is my favourite genre.
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I know all that. He's referring specifically to the stuff from 1993/4 as expanded upon by me. It was a pop fad, like latin stuff (Ricky Martin , Lou bega, Shakira) was a few years later.
 
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