Which genre of music dominates the United States?

clutnuckle · 04-25-2010, 03:04 PM

Indie grows more handicapped as artists like Wavves not only emerge, but are accepted by the general populous.

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 04-25-2010, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Emsanders

Just wanted to see what your opinions are on which genre dominates the US. I personally feel like top40s rap nearly controls over half of people in my age range (18-25). All it seems to focus on is blowinnn stacks on dahh shawwwtayy and babbling about nothing worth while to humanity. Kind of sucks because only a few decades ago the airwaves were filled with wholesome (not all) vibes from artists who actually were writing music to allow us to understand one another.

We'll see where this one goes.

thanks for your feedback a head of time.

I usually don't bash entire genres or movements... and I usually am pretty open-minded to mainstream stuff. But I couldn't agree more that mainstream hip-hop is in a very sad state. There are a couple of gems now and then, but the majority of it seems to be so-called RnB (which today means hip-hop without rapping) or... for lack of a better word.. hip-pop (yes I made a pun), which seems to fuse pop singing with modern hip hop production.

The Bullet · 04-25-2010, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Conan

for lack of a better word.. hip-pop (yes I made a pun), which seems to fuse pop singing with modern hip hop production.

I call that pop-hop, and pop-hop is really, really big right now, Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga at it's forefront.

sidewinder · 04-25-2010, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Yes it is. I think The National define everything wrong with contemporary indie and I'm 100% serious when I say that Creed are a better band.

Wow you must really hate this band.

I personally don't like them and find this song pretty boring, but I'd listen to it before Creed any day of the week.

Captain Awesome · 04-26-2010, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by sidewinder

Wow you must really hate this band.

I personally don't like them and find this song pretty boring, but I'd listen to it before Creed any day of the week.

I love creed. Wheatherd was a brilliant album.

Anyway, I'm not american so I don't know. I suppose looking at the charts is the only way to tell. It does seem like "Indie rock" and rap (hip-pop or whatever you want to call it) dominates the american music scene right now.

noise · 04-26-2010, 06:54 AM

this question cannot be answered

it's like asking "what kind of food do europeans like?"

TheBig3 · 04-26-2010, 12:31 PM

indie's going to be fine, but its going to get refined down to a few characteristics that will end up defining the genre like grunge did.

Or it should. The internet is making guesses harder.

And y the by, i happen like the national.

Jam Hint · 04-26-2010, 12:50 PM

the odd thing by stating indie as a genre is that it in theory is not a genre.
what i am seeing the last 1.5 year mainly is that shoe-gaze/dream pop, garage and lo-fi is getting a ''revival''.(take lo-fi as broad as you can just as you could with indie).
I must admit i don't follow the charts so i could be wrong. and it's probably somewhat different here(i don't know what is living here since i don't listen to the radio or watch music channels here since we don't got decent ones)

sidewinder · 04-26-2010, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jam Hint

the odd thing by stating indie as a genre is that it in theory is not a genre.

Believe me, I fought this for years. But it actually has turned into a genre and a certain style. Can't fight it any more. That's why it's harder to categorize now...tons of bands used to be considered indie because they were on indie labels and sort of rooted in punk, now if they don't sound like typical indie, some people have a hard time calling them as such.

IWP · 04-26-2010, 04:28 PM

Mainstream hip hop is the most dominate right now and it's been that way since like 2002, but electropop is starting to gain lots of popularity here. Hopefully it'll supplant hip hop real soon.

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Jam Hint Groupie Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 14	the odd thing by stating indie as a genre is that it in theory is not a genre. what i am seeing the last 1.5 year mainly is that shoe-gaze/dream pop, garage and lo-fi is getting a ''revival''.(take lo-fi as broad as you can just as you could with indie). I must admit i don't follow the charts so i could be wrong. and it's probably somewhat different here(i don't know what is living here since i don't listen to the radio or watch music channels here since we don't got decent ones) __________________ http://www.last.fm/user/Sl0wmation http://www.youtube.com/user/sl0wmation

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