It will be created on synth engines that have not yet been imagined. They won't even be called synth engines....Digital will be obsolete, and they will only have to think the melodies in order to transcribe them to a yet unknown system, and contort their faces to effect the timbre....and grotesquely cluck their tongues for the propagation of the big bass beat.

Instruments made of wood will be prohibited for environmental reasons....Cheryl Crow's acoustic spruce soundboard guitar will be under glass in a museum, alongside a single square of that most archaic material....toilet paper.

Your guess is as good as mine...next century is a looong way away.

The same thing that comes out of a dog's rear end.

I can never remember what RnB stands for.

soft rock is almost like folk rock. its basicly the same chord progressions and intruments but calmer and not about drugs and voilence. simon and garfunkle were soft rock (some times folk) I only liked their sound of silence but other than that soft rock is not too mellow, its too boring and I just can't get into it.

As bad as it is today.

RnB= Rhythm aNd Blues.

R&B has traditionally been the acronym for "Rhythm and Blues"....."RnB" could mean something else, and I suspect it might have something to do with BASS....the entire neighborhood can feel hear.......

Really aNnoying Bass?

and I will enebitably (sheesh I could not spell that to save my life just now) forget it again. but thanks any ways.

here a fun fact about how blues influenced rock though, Pink and Floydd were names of then famous blues artists that were an inspiration to the band pinkfloyd. that being said, I don't care for blues so I guess thats kind of wierd.

lol no I just put n instead of & because I did not feel like pressing two extra buttons

From what I can tell, the development of popular music is generally about a focus on a small set of elements that seem to slowly change as time goes on. The basic 3 minute-ish verse/chorus focused song format seems to remain fairly stable, and then other elements are generally overlaid onto it. Different genres will have different elements of tonality (though not much different), instrumentation, timbral palette, lyrical themes, etc. It seems to me like the most important element that defines genres of popular music is the instrumentation/timbre, which is highly tied into current technology. This ties in well to the idea of popular music being a mass-produced commodity of sorts. Also to be considered is the way certain elements will fall out of style and then return in a new context, and also the overt fetishization of older styles that occurs in revivals of "retro" styles.

But yeah, what defines 80's music, for example? A lot of the musical ideas are ones familiar to older pop music, and some familiar to today's pop, but the salient elements to my ears are the timbral elements of the day's prevailing technology: solid state amplifiers (JC-120 especially), FM synthesizers (DX-7 was popular), drum machines (808), "gated" drum production, (as popularized by ex-Genesis compatriots Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel).

History repeats itself. I predict a lot of lutes.

Same crap. I never had much need for the acronym personally so I did not know that "R&B" is preferred to "R'n'B". Like I said, same crap.



Since there is not a word in English which sounds even remotely like "enebitably", I think you spelt it correctly, although the word means nothing. I presume you wanted to say "inevitably", though.

hopefully not rap.

and to think I am supposed to be a writter. lol

It's hard to say. Pop and Hip hop is all teh rage, along with very theatrical performances and bands like Matallica also have a strong following. I predict some sort of Lady Gaga costumes with metal riffs and lyrics like 'yo i smoke da dope and steal da monie' in the not too distant future.


Out of all 50, I own one.

Same as today, only with a few new styles being mainstream and pissing everyone else off

Here I have been able to find some video footage from the future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJkbVAs8rjo&feature=related

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Vgz1G16O8&feature=related


Bask in my awesomeness B)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7VZv60L3bw
Actually these guys been to the future and it sounds like people of the future like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c22VlShFh_U

By the way the first video has been blocked in my country? WTF? I guess its banned in America for copy right reasons? WTF this is America since when do they block videos...

Sigged.

But yeah, I see a horrid cloud of doom that hangs over music. Who knows, the lyrics may even get corny like:

One, two, three, four, I LIKE DA NUMBAHZ!
Five, Six, Seven, Eight, I LIKE DA NUMBAHZ!
And then comes Nine and Ten!
And-it-goes-back-WUN-UN-UN-UN!
One, a integer, a single integer, but, it-is-not-a prime-NUMBAH!
Two, is wun plus wun,
three is the numbah that comes after tooooooh,
four, is twice that of tooooooooooh,
fiiiive is not divisible of toooooooh,
six is an upside down niiiiiiiine,
seven, the number of teas Schmuty drank today,
eight, this is really dragging on,
nine, I cannot think of anything to say about this,
ten, the first double digit NUMBAH!
Ich mag die zahlen!
Ich mag die zahlen! Laut.
Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, seches, sieben, acht, neun . . .
ZEHN!
NUMMER VIERZEHN!

We had a song like that in German that the teacher showed us two years ago. I remember it to this day.

I read that first as "Duck Roll" :laugh:

In the future, the only music will be the buzzing of the nanite swarm as it breaks down your body and the planet in order to add to the grey goo.

Could you imagine if we traveled back in time and played the music they play today... Techno probably would be this all amazing high tech music, as for our pop and mainstream music I think they'd do everything in their power to alter the future and destroy the record companies like Sarah Connor trying to destroy cyberdyne systems from creating skynet.

LOL travel back in time to the 50's or something and play them slipnot or some death metal music of the future!

Its hard to say really what the music well be like in the future. It could be harmonic and the greatest music ever created or it could be really horrible sounding but future people wouldn't consider it horrible sounding.

Whatever music sounds like in the future, and at whichever point in the future, people on internet forums like this one will hate it in favour of things from ten or twenty years previously.

Those damn kids and their [insert futuristic music genre here]!

I don't know what music later in the 2010s and beyond will be like, but I will employ the same logic of listening to music and finding what I like. There is music I enjoy from the 2010s and 2000s. While I tend to find older music like that from before the 60s on the annoying side, I go by what the music sounds like and not emphasize when it was made. To me ageism in music is a pretty naive trait.

so pretty good then