What's your hop?
It seems that at this point in "pop" (as in popular and current) musics' evolution the growth spirts are slowing down and genre's are slowly melding into conglomorate sespool devoid of individuality. It's like a carnival midway, The A&R are screaming at you to "play their game" (buy their CD) promising a winner every time. All they "games" on the mid-way may be packaged differently, but they all leave you with an empty pocket and a cheap peace of plastic called a prize.
Independant artist are doing everything within their creative ability to push the envelope forward. But often creativity is traded for abition and art is pawned for a record contract. But every now and again the industry get's a little injection of creativity and something special is born. Every generation sees the birth of something new over the last 100 years or so we have seen a metamorphasis of one genre into antother. The Roaring 20's became The Swinging 50's which became the Classic 60's and 70's, and eventually in the bastard decade known as the 80's gave us hip hop and rap. Of course the 90's gave us alternative and punk and mod-pop ... but that is not realy the focus of this article.
The musical revolution of this generation is something I like to call HYB-Hop. What is Hyb-Hop? Prounounced Hib-Hop it simply means Hip Hop Hybrid. Here is the hyb hop break down.
Hick-Hop
A blend of fiddle and twang with groove and flow. Made famous by Big n Rich and Coy Boy Troy, Both members of the independant Muzik Mafia.
Prep-Hop
Collar Poppin, Polo wearin, IV League style hip hop, designed to connect with middle - upper class america. Kanye West for example who raps about working at the GAP and college life as opposed to his gangsta rapper friends.
Hemp-Hop
A still relativly underground movement its a bunch of hip hop hippies doing their thing. Granola heads and reefers alike enjoy this acoustic driven genre'. Jason Mraz and the independant band Dispatch havebrought this style to the fore front but it is still in its infant stages.
There are more such as trip hop (dance related) and so on but these three seem to be poster children for a new generation of hybrid styles which hopefully will lead into a whole new musical phenomina. Where is music headed, what is the next big thing? It is uncertain at best, but as the pendulam shifts from performer back to artitst I am sure we will se some fantastic musical expressions in the days to come.
j. churchill morris
Independant artist are doing everything within their creative ability to push the envelope forward. But often creativity is traded for abition and art is pawned for a record contract. But every now and again the industry get's a little injection of creativity and something special is born. Every generation sees the birth of something new over the last 100 years or so we have seen a metamorphasis of one genre into antother. The Roaring 20's became The Swinging 50's which became the Classic 60's and 70's, and eventually in the bastard decade known as the 80's gave us hip hop and rap. Of course the 90's gave us alternative and punk and mod-pop ... but that is not realy the focus of this article.
The musical revolution of this generation is something I like to call HYB-Hop. What is Hyb-Hop? Prounounced Hib-Hop it simply means Hip Hop Hybrid. Here is the hyb hop break down.
Hick-Hop
A blend of fiddle and twang with groove and flow. Made famous by Big n Rich and Coy Boy Troy, Both members of the independant Muzik Mafia.
Prep-Hop
Collar Poppin, Polo wearin, IV League style hip hop, designed to connect with middle - upper class america. Kanye West for example who raps about working at the GAP and college life as opposed to his gangsta rapper friends.
Hemp-Hop
A still relativly underground movement its a bunch of hip hop hippies doing their thing. Granola heads and reefers alike enjoy this acoustic driven genre'. Jason Mraz and the independant band Dispatch havebrought this style to the fore front but it is still in its infant stages.
There are more such as trip hop (dance related) and so on but these three seem to be poster children for a new generation of hybrid styles which hopefully will lead into a whole new musical phenomina. Where is music headed, what is the next big thing? It is uncertain at best, but as the pendulam shifts from performer back to artitst I am sure we will se some fantastic musical expressions in the days to come.
j. churchill morris
posted by j. at
12:49 PM
8 Comments:
Please, Just stop writing!
the Internet is full of this crap do you really think we need another "witty" columnist.
Just a thought in order for anyone to really care what your opinion is, first you have to find someone who actually respects it.
i always like to hear what you have to say. and i always think your funny. when we gonna see you again j?
Please don't stop writing! We need more wit, it helps us look and laugh at ourselves and maybe find some deeper meaning underneath the surface. For those that think otherwise about your riding this is america and they have "the choice" to not read your posts.
One thing though, Stand up is easier because you don't have to spell and it goes to quick and people are laughing too much to catch the grammar flaws. Stick to writing, do stand up, and when you make some money, get yourself an editor, a reliable one.
Better things are coming our way.
I'll be your editor j. Catch of few of those spelling oversights and I'd post this on my site.
Ok first of all "anonymous" I think you are absolutely correct. The internet is flooded with as you say "crap", And maybe what I wright can be considered as such.
Most if not every thing I say is tongue and cheek so again your right, it is difficult to respect my opinion on anything of a serious nature when most of the time I am cracking jokes.
I take your criticism as constructive, not destructive, I will challenge myself to rise up to a higer standard so as not to get lost in the mire of other bloggs.
Thank you for your imput,
j.
you're so funny bro.
oh and anonymous II, I'm supposed to be his editor, but it's such a pain to have to remember his username and password all the time that I've reneged on my duties. Sorry.
I still think you're great and am glad to hear your creative thoughts. Keep pressin' on!
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