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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2023 18:00:54 GMT -5
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Post by allow that on Oct 9, 2023 9:32:12 GMT -5
Big Beat/Breakbeat Nu Metal Crunk Britpop Dubstep I miss Britpop and I hope (and even think?) it'll have a revival. I think its "decline" is still too recent (15 years or so?) and it usually takes 20 to 30ish years for dormant subgenres to make a nostalgic comeback. UK Garage's comeback is JUST over 20 years or so since the genre originally faded out. I could also see Crunk making a mini comeback (in a revised form) in the mid 2030's or even towards the end of this decade. Hopefully Nu Metal never does. |
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Post by Koochie on Oct 11, 2023 16:54:35 GMT -5
A lot of subgenres from the 00s and early 10s were basically dead on arrival, honestly. It’s hard to qualify what a dead genre is though. If you look hard enough, you’ll find it and the audience for it.
Witch House comes to mind, but that never really “lived” to die in the first place. It was only ever made to make fun of the overwrought noise Pitchfork et al. elevated anyway. That was never meant to last.
Vaporwave barely qualified as a subgenre to begin with and “chill Lo-Fi beats to study to” kind of solidified that it isn’t.
Electroclash is pretty much done too. The closest we got to it, in recent memory, came from literal nobodies who (admittedly) influenced other mainstream-adjacent artists like Charli XCX and SOPHIE, but what influences were there were appropriated into PC Music and Hyperpop and warped beyond recognition. There’s an argument that it still has a pulse with the occasional viral hit, but there aren’t any signs of life for sounds like Justice and The Prodigy. What’s been adopted from Electroclash was brute forced into something closer to Bubblegum Pop, ironically.
Speaking of PC Music, I’d argue Hyperpop pushed it out of the conversation. It served the same functional purpose as Witch House, swap Pitchfork for PopCrave, but Hyperpop is the actualized version of that and a more “legitimized” subgenre. It’s not even that PC Music died, it’s just obsolete.
Funk Metal is pretty dead too. We’re probably never going to get anything in the vein of Sugar Ray again.
Jersey Club randomly showed signs of life over Covid after a good bit of hype leading up to the ‘20s, but that was a blinked-and-you-missed-it moment. Even Ariana Grande was copying notes from it on “Let Me Love You” and “Vibe (If I Back It Up)” was a light hit, but after that it tanked. Kind of a shame since that had some real potential. There’s an argument that it borrows enough from Ballroom/Vogue to have a pulse, but I see those as distinct subgenres.
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Post by neel on Oct 11, 2023 23:54:12 GMT -5
Lo-fi/bedroom pop or chillwave, are at least mainstream domination.
I remember in 2020 at the height of the lockdowns when lofi/bedroom TikTok pop were blowing up at the mainstream scale, with songs like “Coffee for Your Head”, “SupaLonley” and etc. Leading everybody to think that lofi/bedroom pop was going to be a massive contender for the sound of the 2020s.
Fast forward a year later and most of the lofi TikTok indie artists all ended up being one hit wonders.
I can basically say the same for the failed pop punk/rock revival trend of Late 2020-2021 that Olivia Rodrigo and MGK lead.
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Post by Koochie on Oct 15, 2023 14:18:39 GMT -5
Lo-fi/bedroom pop or chillwave, are at least mainstream domination. oh yeah I wasn’t clear, I agree. I’m saying it had staying power and fills the same niche. It’s not mainstream, but it’s just prevalent enough to stay relevant |
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