We are approaching the 90′s (revised)
* I’ve decided that I want to tweak just a few things in this post after checking out some music. Cross outs or bold within a sentence indicate changes. So here’s the new version.
Since we just finished the first two weeks of the new year/decade do you wonder what the culture is going to be like? We had a pretty crazy schizo decade that loved extravagance and drama in entertainment. The 80′s were beloved in the first decade of the century and rarely was anything ever deemed too much.
History repeats itself therefore I predict the fashion and music sensibilities that ruled the last decade are about to end with this new one we are entering.
In other words, the 90′s are going to be back.
The 90′s for me seemed to be the decade of going “back to the basics” but I don’t think this is going to be completely the case with the ’010 decade since the 21st century has so far proven to be what I will call the Hybrid era or Postmodern era. Everything was mixed up and people put a new twist on the things of the past for better or worse. Youtube video commentary on events at times tend to be a great example like the merging of Kanye West VMA stunt/Obama’s healthcare address.
So here’s what I predict for the coming decade in entertainment.
2010-back to basics (sort of )
In music right now, things seem to be light and heavily dance oriented where lots of synthesizers dominate the mainstream, much like the late eighties.
If we take a look at the music shift during the 90′s , the synths either started to get darker, or if we look the other way, there were barely any synths at all. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, and R.E.M. came up to the mainstream during this time as well as Nirvana, and Pearl Jam. I think that switch will happen again eventually settling in mainstream in about a year or two so I can’t help but wonder….
Will there be a 21st century grunge movement?
I think Indie could be seen as 21st century grunge. This century mixes everything so I really don’t think the synths are going anywhere, just used less. Indie seems to be a movement but it is really light compared to grunge but although It reminds me of the whole “wear -whatever -be -yourself type of attitude grunge had.” To compensate for this softness, like the Nineties however, it will co-exist with Goth/Metal which may be the closest thing we’ll have to the grunge vibe and gritty sound.
Now of course I use this phrase very lightly. It’s not the Goth music people necessarily think about. This is the Millenium we are talking about so it may not be Goth music per Se, eh just more like Metal. Whatever kind of rock rises up, it will have some kind of dark, perhaps industrial, sound or influences with Goth sensibility thrown in, a darker more “real” version of what we hear now. Like a darker electro for instance that may harshly point out how vulnerable we really are as humans.
I think if this does happen it will have a longer mainstream lifespan than grunge did in the nineties because indie and “goth-ish” music lends itself to any instrument acoustic or electrical. The genres can also get away with creating dance music for the clubs. 
R&B was also big during the ’90s with people like Sade, Brian McKnight, Mary J. Blige,Jon B and the Brand New Heavies so I wouldn’t be surprised to hear some sort of R&B influence in this music as well. I can definitely imagine that happening and it actually sounds better than one would think.
Since it’s said that Fashion and music go hand in hand, there’s a few indicators that this may really happen.
Fashion has already gone dark this year. There’s almost nothing but black in the fashion shows of some of the most famous designers. Also, Dsquared has went the way of grunge with models in flannel shirts walking down the runway, Starbucks in hand.
Dsquared
Alexander McQueen
In music there are also some bands that resemble other ones in the past. Those videos I will put in another post.
Here’s one for now.
Ra Ra Riot ( am I the only one who kind of gets an R.E.M. like vibe w/this song?)
We are approaching the 90′s
Since we just finished the first two weeks of the new year/decade do you wonder what the culture is going to be like? We had a pretty crazy schizo decade that loved extravagance and drama in entertainment. The 80′s were beloved in the first decade of the century and rarely was anything ever deemed too much.
History repeats itself therefore I predict the fashion and music sensibilities that ruled the last decade are about to end with this new one we are entering.
In other words, the 90′s are going to be back.
The 90′s for me seemed to be the decade of going “back to the basics” but I don’t think this is going to be completely the case with the ’010 decade since the 21st century has so far proven to be what I will call the Hybrid era or Postmodern era where everything was mixed up and people put a new twist on the things of the past for better or worse. Youtube video commentary on events at times tend to be a great example like the merging of Kanye West VMA stunt/Obama’s healthcare address.
So here’s what I predict for the coming decade in entertainment.
2010-back to basics (sort of )
In music right now, things seem to be light and heavily dance oriented where lots of synthesizers dominate the mainstream, like the late eighties.
If we take a look at the music shift during the 90′s , the synths either started to get darker, or if we look the other way, there were barely any synths at all. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, and R.E.M. came up to the mainstream during this time as well as Nirvana, and Pearl Jam. I think that switch will happen again eventually settling in mainstream in about a year or two so I can’t help but wonder….
Will there be a 21st century grunge movement?
I think Indie could be seen as 21st century grunge. This century mixes everything so I really don’t think the synths are going anywhere, just used less. Indie is really light compared to grunge but It reminds me of the whole “wear -whatever -be -yourself type of attitude grunge had.” To compensate for this softness, like the Nineties however, it will co-exist with Goth/Metal
Now of course I use this phrase very lightly. It’s not the Goth music that people necessarily think. This is the Millenium we are talking about so it may not be Goth music per Se, eh just more like Metal. Whatever kind of rock rises up, it will have some kind of dark, perhaps industrial, sound or influences with Goth sensibility thrown in.
I think if this does happen it will have a longer mainstream lifespan than grunge did in the nineties because indie and “gothic-ish” music lends itself to any instrument acoustic or electrical. The genres can also get away with creating dance music for the clubs.
R&B was also big during the ’90s with people like Sade, Brian McKnight, Mary J. Blige,Jon B and the Brand New Heavies so I wouldn’t be surprised to hear some sort of R&B influence in this music as well. I can definitely imagine that happening and it actually sounds better than one would think.
Since it’s said that Fashion and music go hand in hand, there’s a few indicators that this may really happen.
Fashion has already gone dark this year. There’s almost nothing but black in the fashion shows of some of the most famous designers. Also, Dsquared has went the way of grunge with models in flannel shirts walking down the runway, Starbucks in hand.
Dsquared
Alexander McQueen
In music there are also some bands that resemble other ones in the past. Those videos I will put in another post.
Here’s one for now.
Ra Ra Riot ( am I the only one who kind of gets an R.E.M. like vibe w/this song?)
