The Future (cue Twilight Zone Music)

[TAlderson]

I don't mean the grandiose future of music, what we'll all be listening to (or bitching about) in 20 years. I mean in one year, what's gonna happen? Is all this pop-punk-emo shit going to go away, or will we be listening to more Fall Out Boy wannabes?

I'm reading the list of Grammy nominees, and I see a few patterns. R&B seems to be the dominant music in the top categories, with 4/5 Record of the Year nominations and 3/5 Song of the Year nominees. But it's interesting that only 2/5 of the Album of the Year nominees are R&B artists. I think it's probably because R&B is much more song-focused than album-oriented, so the albums are more compilations of individual songs than an cohesive unit.

So is R&B going to continue to rule pop, or will we be too busy going to see Led Zeppelin on tour to care? What's your vision of the slightly more immediate future of music?

-Tyler