Monday, May 22, 2006
Apparently there is a bird flu dance song craze in the Ivory Coast. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4766391.stm.
This leads to the interesting question of what is the future of the song industry, in particular, what songs will our generation be listening to five decades from now. It is not fanciful to suggest that at our age, our parents were listening to the Beatles or the Bee Gees, generally songs that are categorized as oldies today. It is also not far off the mark to assert that most adults do indeed continue to listen this genre of songs and have not switched over as the music industry progressed into the current trend of hip-hop, dance and other forms sounds.
So what will be listening to in five decades? Will still be attracted to Bon Jovi and Green Day? Or some form of rock-metal band like Linkin Park? Or will we be far more adept at listening so the songs that are produced in the future? The answer perhaps lies in question of which direction is the music industry really headed to? Today, the most probable answer to that is nowhere. There seems to be rapidly decreasing pool of musicians that produce the genre of song that appeals to this blog. Which essentially seem to suggest that the peak of the songs that appeal to this blog is already some years old. This will mean that the taste of the blog has stabilized and most likely not change over the years. In short, we will slowly be moving from Perfect 10 to Class 95 and eventually Gold 90.5.
This is in itself not surprising. This blog is quite certain that our parents had no idea which direction the music industry was moving when they were in their twenties and would have made a sub conscious decision to stick to music that is already familiar and not some odd tune that DJ Lewis mixed. But not to worry, there is always the next generation to buy the fill the void that we leave behind.
9:12 PM
