>but this is all part of the flux and flow of the music bizz - kinda reminds
>me of the late 70's when everything was manufactured disco - the world was
>crying out for a change - and BAM punk sorted it - followed quickly by
>2-TOne (HURRAH !!) - so lets hope that this kinda change happens, but i'm a
>cynic and suspect that the majors have such a stranglehold that nothing like
>that would ever happen again :(
>
But it did happen again in the US, at the end of the 80's when everything
was New Kids on the Block and their clones. Grunge came out as a
reaction to the prefab pop of the day. The big diference, I think, is
that the labels didn't see punk coming and reacted so slowly to it that
punk maintained it's "integrity" (until recently - IMHO). With grunge,
the labels recognised it as the new punk, so to speak, and started
signing every sound-alike band with even a smidge of talet, and killed
the whole thing.
My preditions for the future are:
- Some radical new style of music will come out as a reaction to generic
pop
- The labels will jump on the new style and kill it with their
enthusiasim
- Bands will start selling all their live shows on the internet ala Pearl
Jam
- Madstocks V, VI, VII, VIII, IV and X will each in sucession break the
sales record for live recordings
- Al (president?) Gore will claim to have invented music. Tipper will
realize that he is therefore responsible for "Darling Nikki" and beat him
to death with a role of "parental advisory" stickers. She will later
claim the beating was for educational purposes and not censorship (sorry,
I'm still bitter)
- Bands will sell their studio albums, song by song, on the internet.
Prices per song will decrease based on quantity i.e. 1st song-$4,
2nd-$3.50, 3rd-$3 and todays b-sides will be free bonus tracks, so people
will still be able to buy singles and albums for about the same price as
now.
- Rob H will buy his copy of OSB without "Chipmunks are Go".
- Peter G. will turn every Madness album into a 3-4 disk set with single
versions, foreign versions, and live versions of each song, and b-sides
of every single.
- New bands will realize with current technology the only purpose record
labels serve is marketing and since they don't market new bands, only
established money-makers (except Madness, it seems) they aren't even good
for that. The lablels will begin to founder like dinosaurs in tar pits.
- Richard Branson will *actually* be reduced to selling hats outside
Buckingham Palace
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one...
Cheers!
- Elizabeth
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