Prediction #1. Obscure groups you never heard of will continue to make great on Spotify.
Prediction #2. All commercial music will continue to sound like alley cats screeching.
Prediction #3. Gasoline pump music and the “music” companies play for you while on hold will continue to make you want to poke out your eardrums with ice picks.
The music of 2024 will be the same level of schlock that has been produced every year since the music died in the mid 70s.
Only one I care about: The Taylor Swift music Holocaust will end. Please God.
1. Country music will still be consistently about she done me wrong and will have its characteristically steady line-dance-worthy beat,
Prediction number one. It will continue to be bad and get worse as the year progresses.
There’s going to be an AI-generated “hit” song in 2024.
It will be a huge hit on some zoomer platform like tiktok and will come and go before almost everyone over the age of 40 even finds out.
When word finally gets out, there will be hundreds of rage bait hit pieces on how awful it is and the terrible state of the music industry and all that.
And the kids will have already moved on to the next thing.
Pretty good list. Something they mention is fragmentation and how there’s no such thing as a “consensus hit” anymore. Back in the day, the record companies and the radio stations acted as gatekeepers who channeled only the best artists and music (yes that’s debatable) to our ears. But now it’s an atomized wild west with no gatekeeping except by algorithms if you choose to submit to them.
The people who made good music will continue to pass on in large numbers.
If you want to know just how bad the music is now compared to the 50’s - 70’s, watch some American Idol. The show scours the country for the best talent and they compete until there is a number 1. I’m not too impressed with the talent.
Compare that to American Bandstand or Soul train or the Ed Sullivan show that highlighted “new” talent.
A Taylor Swift concert will suck so much it will create a black hole
Please no more Taylor Swift off note records or sports coverage.
Or phony country guys with plastic cowboy hats and fake southern drawls.
Grand Funk Railroad, Homer’s Favorite Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKmsvRXE4A
Rock attained perfection in 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE
It’ll Happen To You! (The Simpsons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE
Simpsons Boston Reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjiyq25crAQ