Pop punk and nu metal are going to make comebacks. This will be pushed forward by weird little teenagers who were raised in a world with zero difference between the "real world" and the "digital world." It will be strange and experimental and only available on Bandcamp. It will be incredible.
There will be a brief, ironic flirtation with Dixieland-style jazz and hipsters will constantly joke about it being the roaring 20's. This will be a counternarrative to the "real" jazz scene, which will continue to evolve at a rapid pace in London and Chicago.
Musicians will increasingly become politically polarized and will espouse openly fascist/antifascist views. This will be the sound of the societal revolution to come.
Queer artists will take over the pop mainstream in a major way.
I second the notion that an anti-tech movement will come about and we'll see new artists who only record on tape on all-acoustic instruments.
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