Music during the 1T

[Eric the Green]

(02-04-2022, 08:35 PM)galaxy Wrote: Replying to the first post...I think you've got your timings a little off. Rap is today's "new great dominating genre," its rise driven by Adaptives, just like rock in the 1940s and 1950s. It will remain dominant for decades. Trust me, if you spend any time around Homelanders you'll know - rap is by far the largest genre for the majority of them, regardless of race, class, or any other divisions. The rap dominance extends up to late Millennials too, maybe up to around 1998 or so. I'm not a fan of most rap, which makes me distinctly the odd one out among people my age.

(At one time I would have progressed from that sentence about how I'm not a fan into a lengthy complaint about how music was forever declining and how the world is perpetually going to hell in a handbasket and I should prepare for a life of relentless slow and steady worsening of everything. I'm glad T4T led me away from that way of thinking.)

(Though to be fair, for me, a person who has never experienced any turning other than late-3 and 4, expecting a life of relentless decline is a pretty reasonable conclusion to come to, even if it's not correct).


To add to the above, EDM is perhaps analogous to the big-band music of the late 1930s and early 1940s - as big-band was the transition between the jazz era and the rock era, EDM is the transition between the rock era and the rap era.

I hope not. That to me is a pessimistic outlook. Also, rap already has been around as long as EDM, and their roots both probably also are just as deep. So EDM is not a transition to rap, and still is prominent in pop. Rap thankfully does not dominate all of pop, but it dominates too much. It mostly is not music at all, but poetry slam. It can be brilliant as such, and like David said, some rap pieces can captivate. But overall its style is too aggressively ugly and angry and lacking in musical aspects. EDM comes out of electronic music generally, which we now call ambient or techno ambient, styles which still are ongoing too but on the fringe of what is popular. Assuming music catches on with Gen Z again, electronic will surpass rap. Usually artist generations prefer a mellower and gentler fare than what rap is, and as artists they have better taste and creativity.

Rap is fine for civics, since civics are supposed to be dominated by words and intellect as well as by the social interests that rap exhibits. Still, the record of civics in show business in the GI/Greatest Generation was great overall, as was that of the Lost, so civics and nomads like Lost and GenX need not always fall to the level of what rap is-- along with the other GenX-preferred pop styles that are usually just as bad--- such as glam rock, heavy metal, grunge and superficial and over-sexed pop... rap is also a GenX preferred style, aggressive and cynical like the others, but has hung around into the next generation..... unfortunately.... but the kinder and gentler GenX artists in genres like singer-songwriter also have extended into Millennials culture, and will continue as well..... and beyond the USA is always generally better....