Hopefully all the great music that was released this decade won't be forgotten about in 10 or 20 years time. I don't want this decade to be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

Right now, and for the last 8-9 years (at least in the United States anyway) we've been in the hip hop/wigger era, but soon we'll be entering the electronic era. :cool:

what does this have to do with musical era's?

Nu Rave
Alt Country
Grime
Dubstep
New Weird America

Yeah you're right, nothing new has really rose to prominence in the last 10/15 years or so. :rolleyes:

I'm actually dreading the electronica era, if it gets really really huge. Mainly because I've been listening to electronic music for so long, a huge upsurge in popularity can only lead to cheese, over-saturation and watering down of the music. In the mainstream, at least. There's enough cheese as it is, truthfully.

Eras! Eras!!! :bringit: :mad: Bloody hell.

I'm still betting on another golden age of prog. personally, but the Electronic Age certainly seems like a more likely bet..all things considered.

..or perhaps today's political and cultural hierarchies will collapse and we'll go back to the days of wandering minstrels! :thumb:

I feel your pain. And it is 1960s not 1960's, and CDs, not CD's.
:soapbox:

Well first of all, an era is not a genre, it's a period of history. In the case of music sometimes a particular musical style or genre is so prevalent that it is used to define a period of history, that is where we get phrases such as The big band era, which is probably the most common use of the term as it regards music. Eras are pretty much defined after we've moved past a particular period of history. No one was defining the 30's as the The Big Band Era until long after it's popularity had waned, and only because of the impact that it had on the culture at large, and because it reflected the zeitgeist of the emerging culture.

Also, there are too many diverse and different genres in the 21st century to really, at this point, designate this period of history as being defined by any one of them. Maybe we'll be able to look back at some point and see some common denominatorin music that defined this present historical period were in, but the sheer density of media that we're currently inundated with makes that highly unlikely.

^well said. i'm thinking the most defining factor of the current era will be the lack of a clear common denominator. it'll go down as the undefined / transitional era between major movements.

Eh, at least the music will be played more often at clubs, bars, and house parties where there are plenty of good looking females instead of all of this pop rap and pseudo-hardcore garbage that's popular nowadays. Not that I like real hardcore anyway, because I'm certainly not fond of it at all.