Whats a good genre to make music in 2019
 

Like if you were to corrupt the youth, syth pop I really like, want to experiment with sampling but I own 0 records. But as I chill out listening to country music I wanted to be more avantgarde experimental if I ever got off the ground but most of my life I played progressive rock with a little blues and jazz, and I know rock n roll is immortal but a dead genre with diehard fans. I want to tap into were music is going and not focus on the past. If that last part made any sense give me suggestions please. Thanks

Somebody needs to invent a whole new genre.

Yeah there’s too much blending of old genres. We need a full breakthrough.

I wouldn't start making music with the goal of conforming to a genre.

genre hyperawareness is the only way to transcend genre categories. it's john ZORN not scat PORN

Deconstruct the rudimentary elements of polka, Southern Vietnamese indigenous folk music, and power metal, then reconstruct them into a country trap record.

Record yourself assaulting a homeless person and put it up on Youtube... in the name of music.

As long as you're not trying too hard to conform to a genre.

I think there's a lot of things wrong with setting out to be a post-rock band.

True, but artists who form their music around a genre concept tend to paint themselves into a corner.

you should make a album were each song is a different genre :P

lol

When you're just repeating tired old cliches to fit a mold with no heart and soul gone into it.

Here's something I've been thinking about. Rules for a new genre.

1. No repeating melodies. An entire song has to be one long, continuous verse.
2. Similarly, no choruses or refrains. Absolutely nothing repeating anywhere.
3. To the greatest extent possible, there should be no discernible beat. Ideally it wouldn't even be in a time signature ... though I guess technically any kind of music could be pegged into some sort of time signature (I'm sure somebody could figure out what time signature a Merzbow song is in if they really wanted to).
4. Not in any discernible key.

That would be a good start. There would probably have to be some rules for melodies and harmonies as well.

^You should check out Henry Cow. There are a lot of serialist classical composers who could also fit the bill but they tend to only avoid melodic repetition and I can't think of anyone who checks all of the boxes.

the amount of artists that fit that bill completely is a number that if written out in 12 point font would stretch beyond the confines of our solar system

I actually kinda got the idea from some classical composers' songs ("lieder"). If you listen to, say, Schubert's or Schumann's lieder they don't repeat very often, have weak beats, often they have no refrain or choruses and so on. But I was thinking to take that a step further. Plus maybe add some melodic or harmonic rules, as I said. Maybe something like, no major chords, or only major chords, or something.

Another idea for a new genre would be songs patterned after bird songs. :D Play these at 1/4 speed.

Harsh vocals with smooth 80's AOR elevator jazz jammin' instrumentation.

id say blend them, because trying to come out selling 100k or more units on the first week is over for rappers mostly. but the new lil nas x fella broke records for making a country style rap song. its not rapping rap because hes not spitting bars and it still have a country vibe to it. nelly was successful first at this with Tim McGraw and others too but I just think if you want to be successful in the music biz now, blend some songs to get on top of the charts :beer:

internet rappers way back in the 2000's on soundclick.com knew this by just uploading they're songs in other genre charts even if it didnt sound like that type of music and would just get the exposure until they took it down from #1 of the country or pop charts.

Hip-Hop

UK Bass

Techno. Legit underground techno. Been a huge resurgence in the genre the past couple years. Trancey techno is also coming back as well. Schacke went from black metal noise musician to Trance and Techno and he blew the **** up.