Rock and Hip-Hop: Two Worlds That Need a Drastic Change, No?
Looking upon today's rock scene, we see a dead one. Emo-rock is all the rage in many circles, bands with three -words, Fall Out Boy, Race the Sun, Saves the Day; bands that sound just like the next. Has anyone heard of Dime a Dozen? Shift to the singer-songwriter arena and we see much of the same; nothing new and nothing special, a few have taken bold strides, but they can be counted on one hand with three fingers missing. We have many talented artists, very talented, but none have caused a seismic shift; we have no inventors, no innovation.
Hip-hop has dominated the music scene for the last several years, probably longer, taking over the radio-waves and the party scene. In the early 90's, hip-hop started to become accepted as a form of art, lyrics and emotion meant a lot. After 2003 passed it started to become more about the beat. Everywhere you go to have a good time, people want to hear that beat, doesn't really seem to matter what the artist is saying. It gets people hyped up, it gets them moving and it is the life of the party, there is no disputing that. The person making the beats is just as important as the rapper, if not more; the producer has become the straw that stirs the hip-hop drink. A lot of people can talk about what they got over a hook-laden beat and sound good.
Has the music scene really died for good? Has the true artist gone to rest in favor of conformity? Of course not. In the history of anything, there are peaks and valleys, rises and falls, it is simply part of how progress works. Music will once again be about the artist and there will be revolutionary figures on the scene. Unless music decides to die, which it never will, there will be another golden age of golden artists.
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Joe Christmas is columnist for The Castle of Music Newsletter. A revolutionary new organization that finds new emerging artists.
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