Anyone here sick of the Tropical House domination?
Me being an Olly Murs fan for all my sins, I had his new album as a birthday present. Murs with his music with personality has had it sucked out with half the tracks being this boring monotonous Tropical House sound.
I know a lot of commercial music appeals to today's TOWIE and Instagram generation, and having lived through eras such as the pop group era, the Urban era and the Indie era ten years ago, it feels this is way to dominant and no other genre can co exist with it.
It's just the same type of song and beat over and over again. It's a wonder today's artists haven't sued each other or themselves for plagiarism! None of this stuff will be remembered ten years from now and I'm sick of this music geared to people dancing to it off their faces.
What does anyone else think?
I know a lot of commercial music appeals to today's TOWIE and Instagram generation, and having lived through eras such as the pop group era, the Urban era and the Indie era ten years ago, it feels this is way to dominant and no other genre can co exist with it.
It's just the same type of song and beat over and over again. It's a wonder today's artists haven't sued each other or themselves for plagiarism! None of this stuff will be remembered ten years from now and I'm sick of this music geared to people dancing to it off their faces.
What does anyone else think?
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I agree there's so much of todays chart music sounds the same and is as dull as ditchwater
Man, I could murder a Lilt right now.
My favourite album this year Yussef Kamaal-Black Focus, a London based duo. It's jazz, afrobeats and grooves. Brilliant!
Yes, I recognise what you mean by 'Tropical House'. It's pleasant, uneventful music which people can dance to without thinking, perfect music for the era.
Little Mix have a TH track on their new album but 'Glory Days' has power pop, electro pop, ballads, R&B and some mad stuff as well. Maybe that's a better blueprint for the future?
In 2010 it was dubstep that was hailed as the future of music. Fast forward to 2012 and dubstep was the genre that made a brief impact in 2010 and 2011.
However, the charts were faster between 2010-2012, a LOT faster. So these peaks in genre popularity did seem to come and go quite quickly.
Now the charts have been almost destroyed by lack of movement from one month to the next (yes, I said month) it means when a sound becomes popular, it's no longer flavour of the month, but more flavour of the year. If the charts continue to be super slow, then in six months time we will still be hearing tropical dance in the top 40.
Possibly by 2018 it will have faded away.
The singles chart is a joke nowadays - too geared to stupid kids, clubbers and easy to manipulate.
I think it's the artists themselves that are shallow.
The worst example right now imo is Maroon 5's Don't Wanna Know. If Let Me Love You by DJ Snake didn't exist, then neither would've Don't Wanna Know. Then again, Adam Levine would've probably wrote a song that sounds like Cold Water.
Some acts are just desperate for a hit single. Maroon 5 have provided 2016 with the most desperate hit single of the year.
(shame because the music video for Don't Wanna Know is unashamedly funny but the song remains crap)
Going to Barbados?
Now I just carry on enjoying the sounds I've always enjoyed and let modern sameness fly past me to the younger record buying public!
They are the true meaning of sell-out. What a pathetic song. Perhaps fining artists ie docking 25 places in the charts for following the trend and banning them airplay and suspending contracts? Extreme, but it's one way to stop this cancer clogging up the charts. Even suspending Spotify accounts and IP adresses to stop it even?
All these EDM/Tropical House tracks really do sound the same and lack personality. They sum up the snapchat filter youth of today.
And people gave the Emo craze a hard time 10 years ago? At least people weren't afraid to be different and there was a sense of rebellion.
This EDM stuff is so vanilla.
And people are excited about a Dua Lipa album? Why? It's going to be more of the same s**t.