What will be the next cultural phenomenon?

jonnyburgo

50s rock n roll and beatniks 60s psychedelia 70s Punk, 80s acid house, 90s grunge and britpop, 00s - erm.. Tony Wilson once said that cultural shifts happen every ten years, surely we are due a shake up? Or maybe I’m just not young enough to be feeling it and it’s happening right in front of me. Opinions please.

octatonic

Norwegian Death Polka.

guitarfishbay

It’s visual not musical 

Instagram, YouTube etc

not_the_dj

The selfie pout. 

jonnyburgo

The instafame generation, oh god kill me now.

guitargeek62

Hopefully something politically based for once. We’ve been too apathetic about it for too long, and now look at the state of things. Civil unrest barely registers in music & culture anymore, unless it’s passed me by I guess, but that similarly implies that it’s just not important enough to transcend genre’s & subcultures.

Dominic

  ^ The whole Gangsta / Grime / Drill Rap is a fairly acute microcosm of Social Unrest and culture ........it's just passing you by because you are probably too old to listen to the stations/ playlists that pump it out .
I don't think my late Grandfather was especially aware of Marc Bolan or Jimmy Page because he could only fit 78s on his wind up gramophone.

Fretwired

Rant ... a mixture of punk, thrash metal, techno and drill .. it will originate in Wales with an artist called Emperor Fabulous and it will conqueror the world ... first single called Overreaction  from the album Vinyl Flooring Catalogue ..

Phil_aka_Pip

If I knew, I wouldn't waste time telling anyone else, I'd just be making sure I cashed in on it

bloodandtears

The telephone.. as a telephone.

thecolourbox

I think the plethora of subcultures that is so much more varied than ever is something in itself, rather than one dominant thing like in the past. Presumably due to the many more media through which culture is disseminated these days.

RandallFlagg

The eradication of Hipsters

rlw

RandallFlagg said:

The eradication of Hipsters

A good start but that will only lead to a glut of too tight jeans ............

Sporky

Walking around with your winky out.

Kilgore

Moggers.

Monocle wearing 'yoof' banging on about Euro fascists while listening to Edwardian music hall ditties.

jonnyburgo

Sporky said:

Walking around with your winky out.

Already tried that, twas more of a micro-revolution.

57Deluxe

Trans's with beards

Philly_Q

guitarfishbay said:

It’s visual not musical 

Instagram, YouTube etc

This.  Music is just a bit of background noise to accompany all the other things people do with their precious phones. 

I don't think popular music will ever again have the same cultural significance it had for the last 40 years of the 20th century.

Winny_Pooh

Jazz Grunge... has to go somewhere after hipsters right? 

Jalapeno

Some noisy, raucous guitar/bass/drums music most of us will deride 'cos we're old gits. (I hope).

<spins Tina is a Punk Rocker of the turntable ....>

Bridgehouse

Our propensity for retro means it’s about time there was a youth movement that decried all things digital and decide to live in communes and commit to the “analogue” lifestyle