Predominant music genre nowadays?

ElvisFan said:
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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Oh okay mate :)
I think that I'm a bit confused. Is OP referring to 'predominant music genre' as a mainstream genre that happens to just be a fad of crap music?
 
ElvisFan said:
Or be like my racist brother and say what you really mean. He calls it either "Autotuned-Coons" or "Vocoder *******", depending on his mood.

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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Hellsmk2 said:
There is a ridiculous amount of mind-blowing electronic music from the past decade. You are just plain wrong and not looking in the right places.
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and its bigger than it ever was with the internet making it so easy to access great music

if someone cant find something that they love then they are going wrong somewhere imo.

if you like the radio elvisfan then i would recommend radio6 , especially the sunday 8:30-10 slot where they usually get an electronic music legend/future legend in to play whatever new stuff they want
 
DJ Sammy didnt kill dance music in 2002,because it isnt really dance music is it,the club scene is vibrant as ever and the clubs that play his music are not real dance music clubs.,it really annoys me when people think the likes of dj sammy are proper dance producers when they are nothing but chart topper cheese...:mad:
 
Even when a certain type of music was predominant it was usually predominant to a certain type of people, the general public still listened to crap music then like they do now.

I'd say now its dubstep, i dont like it but its what the 'cool' kids all listen too, just like it was jungle in the 90's, house in the late 80's, punk in the 70's etc
 
Hellsmk2 said:
There is a ridiculous amount of mind-blowing electronic music from the past decade. You are just plain wrong and not looking in the right places.
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I'm not disputing it's existence, just bemoaning the crap in the mainstream.

At one time even the chart cheese was good (Nightcrawlers for one tiny example), but now you can't have a night out in town bars without it being saturated by "Autotuned Black Pop".

You know I'm right, you just need to admit it to yourself.
 
Chart dance is, and always has been, 90% awful. Likewise most chart music really. I don't see where race applies here.
 
ElvisFan said:
Or be like my racist brother and say what you really mean. He calls it either "Autotuned-Coons" or "Vocoder *******", depending on his mood.

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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what an absolute load of utter garbage - and borderline racist to boot

it sounds to me like you are, or were going to the wrong clubs

open your mind a bit eh?
 
There isn't one and there has never been a "predominate" music genre. What's popular in music goes through phases, but these phases allow artists who may not have otherwise been noticed to become noticed and off the back of that, spawns a multitude of copy, throw away acts.

Things tend to become popular off the back of critical acclaim, that will always remain true, but there is no one genre of music that suddenly becomes the most popular rather there's usually a few different genres that achieve more mainstream success than others.
 
ElvisFan said:
Or be like my racist brother and say what you really mean. He calls it either "Autotuned-Coons" or "Vocoder *******", depending on his mood.

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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I have never read such a load of old ****e in my life. House music originated in the Black, Latin and Gay quarters of major American cities. As for "acid house changed the demographic" you forget possibly one of the most important records of the acid house era. Voodoo Ray. A Guy Called Gerald. Gerald Simpson. Black.

Then there was Goldie. Fabio & Grooverider. Dillinja. LTJ Bukem. Roni Size. All there, making music BEFORE your "golden era" of dance music and attending proper raves like Fantazia (instead of corporate club events like Gatecrasher) and pioneering the jungle and drum and bass sound as well as producing other forms of dance music.

You also forget that some of the biggest garage producers of the late 90s and early 00's where white. Alex Rivers (Oxide) being white. The Artful Dodger team also being white.

By your logic whites shouldn't like drum and bass or garage because it doesn't suit our rhythm or maybe because of the old stereotype of whitey can't dance.

You may be 38 but you can't have been that into your dance music to come out with that diatribe. Observation my hole.
 
Brian8bit said:
I have never read such a load of old ****e in my life. House music originated in the Black, Latin and Gay quarters of major American cities. As for "acid house changed the demographic" you forget possibly one of the most important records of the acid house era. Voodoo Ray. A Guy Called Gerald. Gerald Simpson. Black.

Then there was Goldie. Fabio & Grooverider. Dillinja. LTJ Bukem. Roni Size. All there, making music BEFORE your "golden era" of dance music and attending proper raves like Fantazia (instead of corporate club events like Gatecrasher) and pioneering the jungle and drum and bass sound as well as producing other forms of dance music.

You also forget that some of the biggest garage producers of the late 90s and early 00's where white. Alex Rivers (Oxide) being white. The Artful Dodger team also being white.

By your logic whites shouldn't like drum and bass or garage because it doesn't suit our rhythm or maybe because of the old stereotype of whitey can't dance.

You may be 38 but you can't have been that into your dance music to come out with that diatribe. Observation my hole.
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You just go ahead and bury your head in the sand and enjoy your TinieUsherTPainStryder records.
 
Woman pop seems to be the big thing now..

Rihanna? That skanky white girl with blonde hair and bad taste in clothes. Katie Perry etc

all really lame and generic but they have the ears of the older than expected crowd who seem to go mad for this girl trip of power, even when out clubbing!
 
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