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"Rock used to be wild and dangerous... it sounded different back then."
"Evolution in music is inevitable. Let these little ones do what they do. If they want to mumble, let them mumble."
"Future, Thug, and Migos absolutely shaped the sound of this past decade."
"I'm blown away by how much and how different of an escalation this is compared to their debut."
"New Wave Music didn't die exactly; it's more that the term went out of Vogue as bands developed their own more specific genres."
"But it's interesting to note that the songs that have come after, like [song name], have kind of distanced themselves a little bit more from this teen crush concept that Twice had essentially established for themselves."
"The sound has changed in a way that I believe is great for hip hop."
"Bands do not owe it to their fans to play their old songs live or to continue writing albums in the style that got them famous."
"The song made it that was when hip-hop actually grew up."
"I think the future of music is it's not uncommon to hear acoustic guitars on a rap song, to hear metal thrown together with pop, to hear all of this stuff kind of coming together."
"Linkin Park's new metal didn't feel like a gimmick. They were truly passionate about their sound and created catchy and relatable anthems that quickly connected them to a legion of fans who saw emotional depth in their heavy music."
"Hip-hop is aging, so we're able to see things we've never seen before. 100 percent, you know what I mean? It's a new genre of music, relatively new, so we've never got to see the lineage."
"When you look at like the Bryce and tillers of the world and the traps all stuff like that that to me is the Jodeci blueprint right you know they're calling it something else but it's really what y'all were doing."
"Music is about to change forever. We're leaving stereo behind and entering the next dimension in sound with spatial audio."
"Ultimately SoundCloud rap changed rap music history."
"Tunak Tunak Tun walked so that Gangnam Style could run."
"The Birds morphed a pot sensibility with a much deeper theme."
"This current era in hip-hop is very reminiscent of the punk revolution... defying mainstream norms."
"Amazing pop record, the future of pop music."
"With revolver, everything was different this time."
"Because the music evolved one of the things that I was very weary and I was very kind of focused on was the way that the music has to evolve."
"The band pushed themselves and their fans artistically, taking some calculated risks throughout the entire decade."
"It was this renewed energy that's allowed the entire current wave of huge LA rap artists to dominate the scene."
"Things are obviously drastically changing in this genre."
"K-pop's rise isn't just about music; it's about embracing something new, something different."
"Rock and roll is constantly drifting... Let's reclaim this feeling that we need to express."
"All music everywhere is constantly building on itself and developing as time goes on."
"Your music keeps changing. It keeps engaging us."
"The New Abnormal is the Strokes truly moving past the burden of their early hype and into a stronger, more confident entity."
"Boy bands have evolved a ton since their conception."
"Blondie had the vision and the courage to experiment with different musical styles."
"Music is going to a new place, it's just something else now."
"They pretty much created the template for modern metalcore."
"It really does represent an artist who has the ultimate backing of his band who can harness anything put before them even this journey into a new rockier sound."
"From that break came a massive hit that started as a fast song but when it was slowed down and played on a piano instead of a guitar it became one of the most heart-wrenching rock ballads of the late 80s."
"It's like a hip-hop Motown for real." - Quality Control Music
"You gotta keep it going man, we need more. And one of the things that I love about hip hop now is that it's just showing us that there is no there's no age requirement."
"Video game music has been around long enough that it is itself an equally important and vast catalog of music that is now set to be reinterpreted."
"One thing that has characterized dance music over the last ten years is its ability to continuously reinvent itself."
"The breakdown of genre lines is why everything sounds the same."
"Old Town Road actually keeps the flavor of country in hip-hop."
"If there's like one single thing that's been the biggest common thread throughout the history of hardcore it's been the increasing influence of metal over time."
"Hollywood Undead have been going for a while now and really predated that music style if you think about it as well as missed out in the heyday of new metal."
"I want the young ones to know not all of us out here going oh go to hell with that new hip-hop this know a lot I'm feeling a lot of it ya know don't get it twisted there's a lot of bad stuff to is every era as always however ihab stuff you know."
"If music was only ever the popular people from the 60s or the 70s or the 80s and then everyone else just wasn't good enough or the times didn't change or there weren't fresh perspectives, it would just be a snooze fest."
"Kanye making gospel isn't something that's new to him because gospel music has always been influenced by black people."
"Once gangster rap came out, no-holds were barred." - Anthony Fantano
"It's simultaneously an evolutionary step forward for De La Soul, for hip-hop, for music in general."
"I think what we've seen is prog metal get redefined, get expanded."
"Hip-hop has just seen such an influx of listeners and revenue."
"James Blake's remixes fundamentally changed my whole perception and the perception of many others on whether or not people should [ __ ] with the classics of the 140 scene."
"Did the 2010s breed some badly needed new life into the genre?"
"1988 produced a lot of influence and quality music that paved the way for rap music to be as big as it is."
"1994 with the east coast taking back the spotlight a little bit more."
"The kids are into this stuff today are tomorrow's metal punk and hardcore kids just like the scene kids of 2010 were the hardcore kids of 2015 covering up their pierce the veil tattoo with that cool new expire long-sleeve they bought."
"The '80s didn't enjoy to see a new wave in music, but also in computing."
"Bieber's music has only gotten moodier and more downbeat."
"The sound can evolve but the message can still be traditional."
"Hip-hop artists are the new rock and roll stars."
"The Beastie Boys very arguably did more to create that kind of cultural mashup than anybody else."
"How did they go from being a really nasty raw underground hardcore band to some of the most iconic universally respected rappers?"
"What happened to the R&B remixes or the hip-hop remixes of real R&B ballads?"
"Without Blues, we would have never gotten into eventually having Elvis Presley."
"It's kind of like in the 70s phaser was to guitar what that west coast whistle thing was to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg."
"It was going to shape and change pop music forever."
"We're not gonna sit up here and and negate that the woman did not [__] shake, bake, and quake. No, she revolutionized what you know rap in the 90s."
"It was actually so bad I'm not gonna say that I don't think there would have been another record if he was still with us like Danny came into our group because we'd known him for a long time and brought like a new I think light or life to the band."
"That album changed metal overnight... suddenly thrash was out, new metal was in."
"Chicago was pivotal in the development of jazz blues and house music."
"The revivalists came slowly but surely and over time more and more bands bent over to pick up the torch that the old gods forgot to pass on."
"Rappers are the new rock stars because, well, it's true."
"Hip hop is kind of had like a punk rock moment over the past couple years."
"It really seems like it will never truly get old as much as vaporwave seems to be evolving and coming out incredible groundbreaking albums and musical projects."
"Twice didn't abandon cuter colourpop or rebrand as a new group rather they took pop music by the hand and showed everyone the true variety and flavor of girl pop."
"Kanye West: shifting the culture and remaining relevant decade after decade."
"K-pop has changed the entire genre of music right now."
"Taylor really took that feedback on board and said all right this next album's gonna have one sound and one sound only: hope you like the 80s synth pop!"
"Rock is dead, sorry. It's not actually music's the best that it's ever been, you just have to know where to look."
"Elvis Presley changed the type of music people listen to."
"There's something about even jazz musicians, one of the few things is composers always did their best work later."
"Rap's punk rock moment... They want to reject everything and be able to start from scratch."
"Sheryl Crow has a special place in my heart for killing gated Reverb."
"After nearly 30 years... redefining modern rock music."
"The UK drill scene really began to cement its own mark with an original sound that was mastered by British producers."
"R&B artists now are not singers, they are vibe creators, energy creators. They create an atmosphere to give you an experience."
"Hip-hop was like I did a little bit of all of it."
"Back in the day, the closest person we had to rap music was James Brown because we don't know what he was saying either."
"Jar of Flies to me just takes everything that Sap was trying to do kind of be a little bit more downbeat, a little bit more acoustic, a little bit more intimate and just takes it to the next level."
"It's not Black Sabbath without Ozzy, but I think they opened up their music to a whole legion of new listeners with this album."
"This to me sounds like he's writing more coherent more focused more direct songs."
"The first three Aesthetic Perfection records could easily be looked at as a Trilogy Of Evolution in terms of the agrotech sound."
"New metal comes full circle on slipknot's animalistic lp7 dive bombing with the Furious hive mind"
"Stay true to the craft; share what makes this art form evolve and grow."
"You go from what people listen to, to what people used to listen to."
"Rock with You perfectly blends the disco era it's coming out of with the pop era it's going into."
"Hip Hop was born in the South Bronx during the 1970s and has evolved into a global phenomenon, transcending borders and cultures."
"Guitar would never be the same, not for me, hell not for any of us."
"This moment marked the inception of what would later evolve into Lincoln Park."
"Music is not as deep and heartfelt as it was back then. Tupac's words were ahead of his time."
"The first hints of a new era of guitar relevance have started to rise from the ashes of the past."
"Hip-hop is an evolution, it's supposed to constantly keep growing."
"From Yeezus to The Life of Pablo, Kanye's musical evolution is nothing short of extraordinary."
"The beauty of pop music is its evolution. If you're not receptive to change, you can fall behind."
"As the '90s beckoned, there was to be a new direction for Jackson."
"We like that stuff too bro, like and I feel like right now, you know you have to be open-minded with music, you know, as the explorer and, you know, new options, new opportunities."
"It's funny to watch rock and roll grow up."
"The thing that changed after the 80s is you have hip hop becoming massively popular."
"The album is a return to the scrappy garage rock sound their early releases had but with sprinkles of psychedelia and folk."
"Every album Mac's done, he's changed his sound."
"All of a sudden, you had a whole army of metalheads getting into hardcore."
"This song sounded like it came from Mars, it was the instigator of new wave of darkwave synthwave Industrial Music Electronica EDM all of it."
"These floods would ultimately end up changing rap history forever."
"Rock and roll emerged in the late 1950s and early 60s featuring clean-cut harmonizing vocal groups."
"It is also the perfect turning point for Pink Floyd."
"R&B did take a turn and now we're able to get back to this feeling, and this vibe, and full circle is definitely that energy."
"Country music's in a cool spot we are having our Nirvana moment the industry is starting to react."
"The power of a Groove... separates funk from the music that came before it."
"They're totally changing your perception of what rap music is supposed to be."
"Who's the Nelly equivalent of the Dead hip-hop era, bro? That's an interesting question."
"Music today, in some ways, is the same as it ever was. Musicians can increase the number of available realities for people in the world to exist in."
"This is the most important band in America today. This is the summer of 1965. We can't live forever in the past. This is no longer the province just of the folkies."
"It really felt like a musical revolution."
"She changed America's music, not only America, the whole world's music."
"Music is just a format and we're adding many different formats and that's interesting, but new wave is going to be old one day too."
"He's trying to appeal less to the classic rock fan and more to the younger indie rock crowd."
"The soundtracks of such films would inspire rock and roll and later heavy metal, both in sound and sensation."
"Every seventies band that I liked, when they got to the 80s, if they were continuing to make music, I didn't like their 80s stuff."
"That particular part that Dwayne played changed music to the point that southern rock was introduced."
"After a couple of years of synthesizers and keyboard dominated hits, the electric guitar was back with a vengeance in popular music."
"We're moving away from mostly singles into rock bands and pop bands doing more for the album format as opposed to just releasing songs for radio airplay."
"It's not just rock and roll anymore."
"As luck would have it, they entered the '80s just as a new sound stormed the airwaves."
"Dre is more than just like this old G-funk sound, he's a pretty versatile producer and is pretty progressive in his thinking."
"Music isn't like how it used to be, or newer music is worse... People have been talking about 'the kids these days' with their newfangled music for literally thousands of years."
"It really shifted hip-hop to another dimension."
"From their early days as a VK band to their experimental and progressive phase, all the way to their modern era as a legacy band, still putting out amazing and forward-thinking music."
"This is the best time in history to be a hip-hop fan."
"Hip-hop is here, it's more than just a small thing, it's just as big as rock and roll right now."
"On Wednesday they were playing Motley Crue on MTV, on Thursday they were playing Nirvana."
"The landscape of music is being shaped before our very eyes."
"This is how you make a reunion record: You take elements of your past while also moving forth into the present."
"I think the direction that Kiss is going right now, where it's trying to be more compatible, is really exciting."
"We can't go on forever as four clean little mop-tops playing 'She loves you'."
"Well, we are into the '80s now... and things are changing in the music scene."
"That's what music should do, it should change and evolve, it needs to because people are becoming smarter and their musical minds demand more."
"The reason K-pop rose to popularity during the 2010s in the West was due to a massive gap in the market for pop idol music."
"In the beginning, most rappers were pretty much party MC's with basic flows, but hip-hop evolved."
"By 1988, a new generation of rappers... would take over and become the blueprint for future generations."
"It's really interesting to follow the progression of where the guitar is."
"Cypress Hill... they changed the music."
"Radio was literally all that we had and nowadays you can listen to music pretty much anywhere."
"They used had this unhinged brutality in their early sound; however, underneath it was a really emotional foundation."
"We're so lucky to live in a time when all these kinds of music... meet each other and there's much less tribalism in music than there used to be."
"The magic of The Beatles is the progression."
"Megadeth was different from a lot of other bands because Megadeth had so many changes and stuff that it was almost like jazz."
"They don't make it that whimsical anymore, dude, they don't, they don't do orchestras like this anymore, no, it's all TikToks now."
"They brought rock back to the two, three-minute song that was like fast and to the point, and you were in and out of it."
"There's another level of Soul or rock and roll or country or whatever that if you didn't fulfill what you thought your numbers were going to be in Hip Hop, there's the blueprint for you right there."
"Out of that became a record that people started to play, and the word Indie dance came about."
"Music people are now gravitating towards... because borders and regionality have dissipated because of streaming."
"After Hours, The Weeknd would enter an entirely new era both sonically and creatively."
"Heavy D and the Boys... took it to another level."
"Without artists like Perp, Little B, Odd Future, and Chief Keef experimenting with what it means to be a rapper, things would probably be looking very different."
"Ever since, music has grown and changed and blossomed into an indelible part of life."
"This shift into an even more abstract direction was almost inevitable in retrospect; it defined Broadcast's biggest legacy moment in music."
"The genre didn't truly die out; disco DNA found itself in hip-hop, electronic music, all sorts of genres."
"There's this whole new wave of people that love alternative music... the last thing they heard of us was like 'Misery Business' but we've had three albums since then."
"I used to think the infamous 'Creep' by Radiohead was an amazing song, and then bam, they created some of the best music of all time."
"Music just ain't what it used to be, but maybe it's better."
"It's nice to do the old stuff, but it's nice to do new stuff as well."
"Pop music is all about taking things from before and giving it new life."
"I see music as like evolution, and evolution is like a branch. A species doesn't turn into one other species; it goes many directions."
"When it comes to music, I've been very fortunate that I've been able to see it evolve over the decades."
"Charlie's dedication to crafting electronic dance songs that still sounded distinctly pop foreshadowed the aesthetics of what we now call hyper pop."
"Fed up with her position in between conventional stardom and edgy indie darling status, Charlie linked up with PC Music in 2015 and forged her own vision of what a pop star can look and sound like."
"It probably gets played a lot more now than it did back then. I think things are much more accepted now."
"Influencers in music is definitely not something brand new; it's rather something that has existed for a long time and we've just kind of seen it grow and change along with the internet and social media."
"Yet To Come promises to bring even better music on their next chapter as BTS."
"The song shows that G-Friend is betraying and now can portray more complex storylines in both their music and concepts."
"The dreadnought makes it possible for the acoustic guitar to be more than just background; it can play a role up front and center."
"It wasn't until later in the sixties that an album became an artistic expression of its own."
"Run DMC redirected the entire course of hip-hop with hard minimalist beats and aggressive rhymes."
"Rush, King Crimson, ELP, and Yes are pushing what a rock band is and what a rock band can do."
"For about two years, George Harrison put down the guitar and picked up the sitar."
"Speak now was the turning point for Taylor Swift."
"The evolution of that song is remarkable."
"Hip hop and rap have become the new rock stars."
"There was a time when rapping was considered corny; the drug dealers were the coolest guys in the neighborhood."
"These new artists are its future and will inevitably reframe how we understand its past and its present."
"JYP's way of gradually maturing Twice's sound over the years has been quite well done."
"Everyone pulled together, then the '60s came along, all the crazy music."
"K-Flock has great potential and can use the life story and future experiences to switch up the context of his music."
"Olivia Rodrigo is on her way to discovering punk."
"I've always loved drum and bass, I always loved the rave sound, but my true sound has always been about the future of music with a kick drum."
"It's such a great album, it seemed to maybe herald that kind of movement, maybe slightly more groove, slightly more mellow."
"Sgt. Pepper's... launched, changed rock music forever."
"It's an exciting time because you could see that entertainment, and music in particular, was definitely in a state of change."
"I think hip-hop has evolved for the better over the years."
"Then the West Coast rose to prominence thanks to gangsta rap."
"The art form is still there, and it has moved on to Serato and beyond vinyl."