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>> "All the music genres froze in place and that was that." Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it sounds like you're saying music hasn't evolved any since the lat
by Kye 3y ago
>> "All the music genres froze in place and that was that."
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it sounds like you're saying music hasn't evolved any since the late 1990s. There is an incredible blending of rap, breakbeats, punk, metal, and rock happening as we speak. And that's just the last few years. Places like Bandcamp, Mixcloud, and Beatport are rich with new kinds of music and new takes on the past. Even Soundcloud is still holding on in its bot takeover era.
1996 was the year before MP3.com. Napster two years later.
- FreeFull 3y agoOn the other hand, how much of that is actually making it into the mainstream? Although, it's debatable how much of a "mainstream" there even is, any more.
- ebiester 3y agoIt's speaking with respect to radio. It's why you wonder who is listening to Ed Sheeran and Imagine Dragons but they're somehow so popular.
- txru 3y agoI think it makes sense to say that all of the music genres that were on the radio in the 90's are pretty much the same genres today. Radio country music in particular has been remarkably stagnant. The names of the artists change, but with a few notable exceptions (Old Town Road front and center), the styling is remarkably unchanged. There are certainly newer and more innovative country stylings, but radio and Nashville catering to radio hold a very strong, very conservative center.
- shusaku 3y agoI 100% agree, any time someone reminisces about the past, take what they say about new music with a grain of salt! But like you said, a lot of innovation is driven online (but absolutely penetrates popular culture), not by local DJs, which is one of the changes the above poster said