Well, Hanson is more alt-rock now and the Jonas Brothers are arguably not that bad.
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I don't know. That's not a new concept at all, and there aren't a lot of rock acts around that aren't punk or psot-grunge, which rules any sort of electronic instrumentation.
The thing about LMFAO is that they are actually... good. Mixing rap and euro-eletronica works, and it's much better danc emsuic then other acts. Flo Rida is the only guy that has really caught on, and I like his stuff too.
The music videos are good too.
edited 4th Jan '12 6:42:08 PM by Erock
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.Like the Killers? Or Franz Ferdinand? The Kaiser Chiefs? It seems to me that they've all had their day, though maybe the first two will manage a comeback like Maroon 5. Even Duran Duran could qualify as "rock music with synthesizers" (they're probably one of the main influences on a lot of those bands, actually).
I wonder how long the female singer/songwriter trend will last. It seems to have been going on for a while.
edited 5th Jan '12 4:35:27 AM by TheGloomer
If you wanna get technical, The Who was arguably the first major band to put synths in rock music. (The Beatles too, but not to the extent of The Who.)
edited 5th Jan '12 5:12:16 AM by 0dd1
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There was a female singer-songwriter trend in 2006-07 (with artists such as Regina Spektor and Sara Bareilles doing well). Then it died out when the record labels decided that gimmicks (Lady Gaga) and manufactured images (Katy Perry) sold more albums.
The image portrayed in pop music is just as important as the music itself.
While Katy Perry's image is manufactured, dissing Lady Gaga's as a "gimmick" isn't entirely fair. She's kept it up this far, it's interesting, and adds to her music and performances.
edited 5th Jan '12 6:22:19 PM by Completion
@The Gloomer: Adele is part of an ongoing trend of retro-tinged female British soul singers, some of whom have also become a success in the United States. Other examples of this trend include Duffy, Joss Stone, and Amy Winehouse. The Black Keys, despite being male U.S. natives, have also benefitted from this trend because they play retro-tinged blues-rock/soul.
edited 5th Jan '12 8:41:39 PM by Section42L
The Who was arguably the first major band to put synths in rock music
I hope you realized how much I wanted to say it but decided against it (I used to be such a broken record).
But now that's it's been said, Who's Next was the first album that used synths as a foundation of or a song, ot jsut to make sounds and effects.
@inane: That's at least 30 years old. I'm talking now. If anything, rock is going to move away from dance pop. Of course, it'll still be bad.
edited 5th Jan '12 10:18:22 PM by Erock
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.If I might mention something about Lady Gaga, I've seen some debate that Born This Way wouldn't have sold as well if amazon.com hadn't marked its price down to 99 cents for a couple of days in the week it came out. How likely is this?
I've also heard that her recent singles have bombed. Since I don't keep track of the charts in America (beyond what's in the Top 10 positions) I must ask if this is true.
I don't know about
bombing, but their peak position's slowly declining.
Amittedly my source for that is Billboard website comments, which seem to be ten times stupider than You Tube comments.
@Erock: S'alright. Hey, I'd might as well give credit for something to someone other than The Beatles for once.
@Gloomer: Yeah, bombing would be a. grossly inaccurate term for it. They still made pretty good impressions on the radio at least.
Side note: So, I have heard in interviews and the like that Lady Gaga was in a rock band long before fame struck. Anyone else curious about this music of her previous life?
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I'm not personally saying they bombed; I've heard that they did and I was curious whether it was true. I mean, from what I can see her album has four singles that were in the Top 10, which is no mean feat.
I guess I'm only hearing teh haterz side of things.
edited 6th Jan '12 6:40:19 AM by TheGloomer
Oh, no, I'm just responding to what you said you heard.
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I didn't think "Tonight, Tonight" was that bad. It's not very good, but I don't see it as horrible; it's just mediocre. I change the radio when it comes on (which it rarely does now), but it's an average pop-rock song. Just one without any emotion or soul. It's an empty song that sounds more like it should be in a commercial to sell some throwaway consumer product. The lyrics are terrible, but it has a catchy and memorable chorus and the instruments are technically good but not in a musical way. It's just there - mediocre and catchy, but empty.
As for the current electropop trend... music cycles usually last 5 - 6 years; electropop broke out into the pop scene with Just Dance (R&B and hip-hop with electronic instruments are not the same...) in early 2009. 2013/2014 is when it's going to die off; I don't see Adele's type of music becoming more popular than it is at the moment. And, before I get the argument that it was always there; yes, it was, and has been since the early 80s, but not to the overwhelming level that it was today (and in the early 80s).
I think it's going to be rock music with synthesizers that's going to replace the electropop we have right now.
edited 3rd Jan '12 8:19:04 PM by Completion