What do you think's gonne be the next big trend?

[Mr. Vai]

I dont think anybody really knows, theres just too much to name, but some of the things that I have thought that could be the next new trend would be covering songs, I think Alien Ant Farm or 0rgy made people realize that older songs can be good if there done by sombody else, but I mean they totally took good pop bands from the 70's or 80's and turned them into Heavy Metal kick @$$ songs.

I have also noticed awesome bands comming from the U.K. recently, I've been watching MTV2 late at night and its funominal to see all the good bands that are on so late, i think that big commercial Music television networks like MTV or VH1 need to pay more attention to these bands that seem to be always comming in last because they re-run Backstreet Boy and Britney Spears video's.

Your thoughts?

[Lordathestrings]

I predict that we will soon see the monster amp stacks disappear from stages.

Check it out!

http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2001

This came up a while ago on another thread. If I can find it, I'll post the link here.

[Lordathestrings]

http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=1455

[Raskolnikov]

I don't care what the next trend will be. It really could be anything. Hell, maybe even my band (fat chance... which is a good thing). Anyway, I don't see much point in sweating it. The Biz will do what The Biz will do.

[Mr. Vai]

wow ur opinons suck ass

[Lordathestrings]

... and that last misspelled belch from Mr. Vai was nothing like well informed, thoughtful debate.

It sounds to me like Rask is gonna steer his own course, regardless of the trendsetters. That's probably the best choice. If what you do happens to gain wide acceptance and popularity, you don't have to warp yourself into uncomfortable positions just to make a living. And if the trendoids look elsewhere, there are worse fates than to have a small, but loyal following.

The Biz is not about music!

[Bardsley]

wow you have really crap ideas....
j/k. You've got to admire the honesty I guess, maybe more people should just come out and say that in conversation. I can just imagine: "Wow mr Dalai Llama, I never realised how much you suck", or "gee God, have you, like, been on drugs or something, cause what the hell were you thinking?"

[Joseph]

I think everyone knows by now that music always goes in cycles, why you ask? Well, because there are too many "rockstars" who feel the need to cling onto the talent and creativity of others instead of figuring out what works for them, making a good representation of their personality.

So, In the meantime I'll just wait for some honest rock music. Hey, It could be from just about any catagory, as long as it's an honest expression of the "Musicians" abilities. But that's not something that we see very often in the mainstream...:(

-Joseph

[Zeppelin]

i dont think there's such a thing "the big trend", however i must say that since nirvana's "smells like rock dying" the trend is to make the music as simple as possible, and im not talking about the music as whole but about lead guitar only... you just dont have players like SRV, Page , blackmore, etc any more. the only two types of rock players we have today is travis's lead kind which got nothing to do with lead guitar at all and the metal type, who are often have great technical abilites, but lacks any feeling and emotion in their music
i really hope that one day there'll be a SRV kind of music trend, so people like me will be able to watch MTV all day long

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Zeppelin
I must say that since nirvana's "smells like rock dying" the trend is to make the music as simple as possible...

With Nirvana, I think most musicians have misread their intentions. Most people, in following in their footsteps have focused on the simplicity of their music, and the idea that they don't have to try so hard to be successful, but they really missed the point. What Nirvana's music did, (at least for the first few years) was give people the confidence to be themselves, in recording the type of music that best represented their personality. However, there's always a down fall towards every good thing, and of course there's always a lot of confusion.

Of course the copy cat syndrome is much more tempting than trying to rely on your own natural abilities, because most people( well it seems like) they would much rather take the safe road instead of truly figuring out who they are through music!!!

-Joseph

[stratman42]

Lydian are the next big trend. Thats the band i'm in. and as far as combined old style metal with new, thats us all over. look out for it

[Raskolnikov]

What's going to happen is that soon people will get sick of what they're hearing. Somebody who sounds different will come along and everybody will be "Refreshed." Initially thier will be a couple of bands that kinda sound similar, but are all original, but three years from then they'll be heavily imitated and people will be getting sick of that too. It is a cycle and we've all seen it before.

And yes, I do plan to make the music that makes me happy. If I'm lucky enough to get signed and become a world famous rock star, then cool. If not, well, I'll still be playing the music that makes me happy. I'm like anybody in that I like the company of other people and to be accepted, but due to my personality I find myself alone a lot. What that boils down to is that I'm used to not fitting in and so remaining a musical oddity doesn't really bother me.

[Bardsley]

It seems that people our age who tend to read things like The Idiot perhaps are never going to fit in with the Britneys of the world...

[Led Zeppelin]

The last 40 years have shown us that 3 types of music will always be popular. Rock, Hip Hop/Rap and the pop music of the moment(whatever its defined as). Over the last 40 years, while one is usually popular the other usually lurk around with the occasional hit. At the moment bubblegum pop or whatever is most popular, hip hop(ganster rap, will Smith ect.) and rock(Nu Metal, Pop-punk ect.) are still thereabouts. Think of all the big music revolutions (Nirvana, The British Invasion ect.) have all involved these 3 types of music. There will be some kind of new revlution soon, probably rock as it is the least popular at the moment, it mightnt be as big as Nirvana but so what) People always get bored and look for new trends.

[MajinMojo]

disco will resurface, and i'll kill myself

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by Mr. Vai
I dont think anybody really knows, theres just too much to name, but some of the things that I have thought that could be the next new trend would be covering songs, I think Alien Ant Farm or 0rgy made people realize that older songs can be good if there done by sombody else, but I mean they totally took good pop bands from the 70's or 80's and turned them into Heavy Metal kick @$$ songs.


The only thing Alien Ant Farm have made us realise is that Alien Ant arm suck.

[blackrose]

MXPX has a song called the next big thing...you all should hear it sometime. Anyways, my opinion is that if anything is popular enough to be considered a trend it is probably liked by a bunch of morons with no clue of what music actually is, and should be ignored as such. You all know what i mean, losers like spears and nsync. Dont know a melody from the wrong end of crosseyed platypus. So its pointless debating about whats going to be big next, all you have to do is think of the stupidest thing possible and odds are youre not very far off from the truth.

[Bardsley]

What about the Beatles? They were loved by all the teenagers, etc, and they were one of the greates bands ever. A modern example would be if Nsync released something like Revolver.

[blackrose]

back when the beatles were popular things bacame trendy by being different, nowadays things become trendy by going a long with the currently established popular opinion.

[Zeppelin]

what was the difference between them and any other rock'n'roll band, especialy in the very begining of their career??
today people like different things too, like radiohead for example

[blackrose]

the beatles are like any other band...but when they were popular they weren't. and bands like radiohead aren't popular enough to be called a trend.

[Raskolnikov]

Actually, word has it from several of the folks on this forum who were there is that their was plenty of stuff like the Beatles when the Beatles came out- They were just the guys who managed to sell big.

The rest is history.

As for what's next? Who knows? And why does it really matter? I think I've said this before, but I'm planning on playing the music I love weather I have to work at McDonald's to support myself or if I get the privlege of playing it to sold out stadiums. And if on the off chance that playing the music I love gets me to that point, I'm sure the words "trendy," "sell out," and other itterations of such will probably be applied to me and my band.
-Oh well.

[monty]

In an ideal world there would be no "trends". Music would be appreciated for what it is- the language of the heart.
But, sadly, as commercalisation takes an even bigger grip on our lives I only hope and pray that there wil aways be somewhere we can just take our guitar, a mike and sing, being trendy not an issue. That woud be heaven.

[blackrose]

I love you man!!! Those are some tight words of wisdom.

[Bardsley]

There is a fine line between whether a trend is good or bad then. Trends can either be simply a bunch of people following the crowd, or... they can be what the few people in a particular area create by striving ahead of the pack. Of course, in art something that is regarded highly is usually called a "movement" to make it sound better. But look at the modernist movement, in literature and visual arts and music, etc. This was a movement formed by groups of people pushing ahead, and it could be seen as a trend, but it wasn't a bad idea. If someone starts painting an impressionist painting (for example) and someone else is inspired by it, and understands what it is on about, and chooses to push their own impressionist paintings, is that a bad trend? If you think about it, rock music itself is a series of "trends" that have led to great (and hopeless) music. I'm not defending everyone trying tyo sound like each other in an attempt to seel lots of records, but I'm trying to show that trend insn't necessarily a dirty word.

[blink 182]

i think the next big trend is wut me and my band are doin...Punk mixed with metal and old rock..like blink meets metallica

[monty]

Thats whehey over my head. I mean imagine, combining Metallica and Blink. You are the new genius of the guitar world. All hail! All hail!
But seriuosly, why not make the the music that represents you and your own feelings instead of making a crude mimicking of other musicians. Sure, go ahead and cite then as your inspiration, but dont set out to simply fuse two unrelated musics together. The result would be a friggin' mess and probably not liked. Play the music that comes from you.I know that sounds hard, but, prevail, you will be loved for it.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by blink 182
i think the next big trend is wut me and my band are doin...Punk mixed with metal and old rock..like blink meets metallica

Its been done. Its called Sum 41 and the project failed.

Theyre crap.

[Raskolnikov]

Metal and Punk are far closer relations than a lot of people would like to admit.

[Incidents Happen]

The next trend will be the realization that commercialization ruins music. There will be a movement of bands against record companies- and fans will follow, refusing to buy CD's (and go to concerts) of bands that have "Big" record company deals, and bands will in turn make thier own record companies ( like the string cheese incident did, with SCI Fidelity). This will drive the record companies (almost) out of the whole music scene, and prices of CD's will go down a dollar or two because of it.

I hope.

[pstring]

Word on the street, Polka Metal

[Lordathestrings]

"Retty now...beeg accordion solo!" lmao :D

[lalimacefolle]

There's a band in France that was created out of a show... Not like the monkees or Spinal tap, but the show was actually showing the casting of the girls, how they worked hard to sing in tune, etc. Well, they have beaten the record of 'most sold albums in one week'. Even though people know that they aren't real artists, that they owe everything to the staff that's around them, well, they still buy it... I'm very sad about that kind of stuff, and it seems that there's another season of that show coming on!!
The next trend will be what the majors will make it...
As for what I listen to, I go around on the net and in pubs, there's more talent there than in any major release since the 80's...

[Led Zeppelin]

Yeah they have that "Making The Band" thing in loads of countries. The band from the English one broke the record for fastest selling debut single ever in the UK and when they got it they were talking about how "their hard work paid off" and that they "proved that theyre serious musicians" and all this crap when it was ovious that it was all because of the show. This franchise is the biggest farce in music history, its ridiculous. In the Irish one theyre making now, theyve billed them as being the first potential globaly succesful band from this franchise but their still in the first stages of auditions. I dont get that.

[trebledamage]

Just face it. The next big trend is Polka; in all of its possible perverse forms. Sell your guitars and buy an accordion today before the stores inflate the prices!!! All together now...Um Pa Um Pa Um Pa Um PA...

[chris mood]

I think the bossa nova is gonna make a big comeback

[trebledamage]

It's possible. Latin influence is very popular right now. As for Polka, I misspoke. It has already made a comeback ...Reggae. (Take Polka Music, slow it down considerably, and lose the accordion)

[Raskolnikov]

Though Polka and Reggae share a common upbeat feel, they're otherwise very different.

I know this because I have been working very diligently on a new genre called "Death Polka" for many years now.

6/8 time and slabs of distortion!
YEAHBAH!

[Joseph]

Honesty is something that has been missing for quite smetime in this music industry. Although rock and rap has been very successful as of late, I think a lot of musicians use this as a defensive reaction, because they are very uncomfortable with their voices. I just think that what truly makes a great artist are those who are unafraid to hit a nerve, those who are willing to take many risks to satisfy themselves musically. Desite what's popular or despite what's cool. It's all about what's in your heart. Hopefully we'll see more heart and soul in the years to come, becauase that's what truly makes music beautiful and memorable. It doesn't matter what style you practice, all that matters is that you're making an honest represenation of your thoughts through sounds.

-Joseph

[Incidents Happen]

i agree with joe. er, joseph. i wish people just went away with trends though, ya know do your own thing. I guess that couldbe a 'trend', to be yourself and do whatever the **** you want, but the word trend would be lost if that ever globally happened.

Too bad eh? :(