Have The Kids Had As Indelible A Mark On Popular Consciousness As Generations Past Have? (1 Viewer)

[wikkidpissah]

Rage loses me as the creative impetus towards grandeur. I'd like to think the artistic impulse comes from venerated truth, as properly as can be understood. If that means, God, then so means it. 

Rage is a condition. Anger is an artistic element. Big dif. One hopes to be beyond anger once one argues with God, but one don't get to stand in the spot without it.

ETA: The best art is a prayer, but not all art.

 

[rockaction]

You know what's odd? I've totally tuned out pop culture the past 5-10 years in order to go backwards. I think the last I checked in was 2012, really. That's when Kendrick put his first out and all we (me and my, yes, young friends) would do was listen to that...

so I guess Kendrick is there for the teens as far as traditional genre/delivery/platform stuff goes. He is what bubbled up to the surface. 

 

[ffldrew]

To answer the original question, i would put the name of the current President - greatest performance artist of the age, his elevation the defining act of the culture - in the "10s-?" slot

Don't you have to add the Kardashians to that as well - self centered, doing any wild crap you can to get you to look at me, use my "influence" (influencers, uggggh), press my brand - so many music artists now seem to follow in that pattern - all like you said before without any mastery of talent or originality.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Don't you have to add the Kardashians to that as well - self centered, doing any wild crap you can to get you to look at me, use my "influence" (influencers, uggggh), press my brand - so many music artists now seem to follow in that pattern - all like you said before without any mastery of talent or originality.

Well, that jibes w what i've been saying since the '16 campaign - "Trump doesn't want to be Hitler, he wants to be a Kardashian!!"

 

[Steve Tasker]

EDM has already been mentioned, but if you want to go even further, how about the decentralization of music and extremely low barriers to entry into the music landscape.  Soundcloud, Bandcamp, GarageBand, countless other apps.  Hell, even more recently, TikTok is starting to take hold.  There are people who have made careers out of being Soundcloud rappers.  Grimes self-recorded Visions (a great album) in her apartment using only Garageband, a keyboard, vocal pedals, and a sampler, for example.

In some cases, the long-form LP is slowly dying, replaced by standalone singles or 2-3 song EPs, especially in the electronic music world.

The actual apps themselves will come and go, but the fractured landscape of the music industry is here to stay.  Things have been revolutionized, and the "young people" combined with advances in technology have led the way.

 

[Doug B]

In some cases, the long-form LP is slowly dying, replaced by standalone singles or 2-3 song EPs, especially in the electronic music world.

This makes me marvel at the semi-resurgence of vinyl albums over the last five years. Curious about whether the vinyl sales since 2015 or so are mostly to nostalgic Boomers and Gen-Xers, or do Millenials and younger seek to spin physical vinyl records, too?