02-06-2022, 03:36 AM
Honestly, it's really hard to say with the increasing amount of genres and subgenres cropping up. I think anything that's catchy or edgy (or both) will always remain popular but people's overall tastes in music have become increasingly broad since it's so easy to listen to anything nowadays. It's also so much easier to make music in general and distribute it without the need of major labels so there's this constant barrage of new things to listen to if you're looking for a specific sound.
Trap is the prevailing pop genre right now but I don't think anyone is really listening to this genre as exclusively as boomers who always waxes on and on about the same classic rock hits from the 60s and 70s. Neither was it the case with EDM, kpop, or whatever else that gained popularity over the past decade. By the 1T, people probably won't have as much of a collective taste in music. There's just no reason to with all of the options you have.
I think a couple sites that illustrate this well is Everynoise and for electronic/EDM specifically, Ishkur's Electronic Music Guide which apparently someone already made a thread of. Everynoise is basically an automated list of all of the genres that have cropped up throughout the year into a sort of "tag cloud" format that you can listen to at your leisure. Ishkur's Guide tries to catalogue every genre and subgenre of electronic music by year with an impressive list of examples for each (and a bit of snark in the descriptions). They're both very interesting ways of observing the evolving music trends.
Trap is the prevailing pop genre right now but I don't think anyone is really listening to this genre as exclusively as boomers who always waxes on and on about the same classic rock hits from the 60s and 70s. Neither was it the case with EDM, kpop, or whatever else that gained popularity over the past decade. By the 1T, people probably won't have as much of a collective taste in music. There's just no reason to with all of the options you have.
I think a couple sites that illustrate this well is Everynoise and for electronic/EDM specifically, Ishkur's Electronic Music Guide which apparently someone already made a thread of. Everynoise is basically an automated list of all of the genres that have cropped up throughout the year into a sort of "tag cloud" format that you can listen to at your leisure. Ishkur's Guide tries to catalogue every genre and subgenre of electronic music by year with an impressive list of examples for each (and a bit of snark in the descriptions). They're both very interesting ways of observing the evolving music trends.