Guybrush

You have people who are personally interested in music and spend a lot of time with it, such as most people on MB. Then you have the vast amount of music consumers who spend most of their listening time on hit/mainstream stuff. Popular music largely caters to that last group. Will there always be a minority leering at what the majority spend their time and money on? Of course

I don't think mainstream music will ever become the kind of stuff I enjoy the most because the stuff I like is generally not as instant and takes a little more time to get into. I like a lot of music which challenges or expands on the typical rock/pop song formats and that generally doesn't sell well with the vast majority of casual consumers. F.ex off the top of my head, I can only think of one single that sold well that was in an untraditional time signature and that was Pink Floyd's Money. I assume that trend will continue into the future.

So for me personally, I don't have high hopes for pop in the future .. But it's not like I feel I need pop anyways!

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

In the 90s it wasn't too uncommon. I mean with bands like Tool mysteriously bursting into the mainstream(one I could never understand myself. I respect what they do, but how exactly a mainstream audience ever grasped them is a mystery to me), and a few of the 'grunge' bands experimented lightly in odd time signatures. Soundgarden's 'Spoonman' is a key example. Speaking of Seattle...

Or turn mediocre artists into legends after they commit suicide...

I thought that was cocaine...

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Guybrush

Spoonman is indeed a good example. I would still say charting singles with odd time signatures is an uncommon occurrence, even in the 90s. I'd even call it very rare. Basically, if you take all the charting singles (even when taking just those from the 90s) and see how many percent have odd time signatures, I think you'd get a very low number

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Herocon

There seems to be a massive gap of musical talent in the 90s for me. There was a lot of bands/artists that came out with a hit single, and people would say, "They're the next best thing!" but then the said band/artist fail to function under the pressure, and collapse never to be heard of again. Belly's psychedelic "Feed the Tree" was a good example. The band came out with one hit, and then vanished off the face of the musical world, never to be heard of again. (I still don't know what the hell 'Feed the Tree' is about.)

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Albeit, I think 99% of 90s bands are massively overrated, that was a neat thing about the 90s. You had no idea where the next 'hit' song came from.

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Herocon

True, but then again, you never knew when that same artist was on their way out the door.

Scarlett O'Hara

That's what keeps their energy levels up. Otherwise if you did cocaine without that type of music it might kill your buzz.

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Or you might stop enjoying that type of music.

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Howard the Duck

coke's overrated, mon, ere, ave a spliff, make u go irie and enjoy doob

Howard the Duck

I usually have high hopes for something mainstream that is hyped like Janelle Monae's The Archandroid but then it pisses all over me