Big band sounds and country music went through constant evolution during the 30s and 40s, along with the fads of jazz, boogie-woogie, etc, then faded.
The just-pre-rock'n-roll bop sound only lasted 6-7 years with old Hank Williams- Hank Snow - Hank Thompson style country music.
Then Rock and Roll [original] came and faded with the English group. Continued the evolve, fade, evolve, fade cycle alongside various other music genre.
But Rap has remained essentially unchanged since it began in the 1980s. Kids are listening to the same music genre their parents listened to when they were the same age, and liking it as though it was something they invented.
Seems to me that says something meaningful about something, but I haven't a clue what it might be.
Any ideas?
2007-12-23 05:31:50 · 14 answers · asked by Jack P 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
hlbfl195 - The avatar's a photo of me 4 - 5 years ago. I don't know how to be anyone else.
Jack
2007-12-23 07:37:29 · update #1
Heck, I thought it was the same song that they kept playing, LOL
2007-12-23 05:38:40 · answer #1 · answered by slk29406 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I have to disagree. Rap has changed. What has changed is the content of the lyrics and the images associated with the music..in the videos. I don't listen to rap as a rule. I have listened to some of it out of curiosity. The beat will grab you and hold on to for a while..it is primal. But the content has become so harsh. I would bet that there are some who originally enjoyed rap who now do not care to listen. It probably has such a large following because there are so many out there who can identify with the content. That is not a good thing.
Country music is one that has really evolved too and also (in my opinion) not for the better. It seems that all one needs now to be a country music star is a pretty face. The content of the lyrics seem shallow most of the time. Remember when the country artist wrote his songs from the experiences of his or her life and they had depth and soul? Anyway I am just rambling now.
2007-12-23 13:46:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think that rap has evolved as well. The tnings that Grand Master Flash, Run DMC and the like were doing with talent and rudimentary electronics are now being done with talent and a wealth of electronics. The rhymes are real life, and that is why the world has embraced not only the artists, but the genre itself. There is some very intelligently written hip hop and rap. It embraces every aspect of our lives, from the struggles to the loves.
2007-12-23 13:45:51 · answer #3 · answered by Stephen C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If people just quit buying "rap" it would go away. Record companies supply as long as there's a demand for it. It hasn't changed much over twenty years ,I agree, just more violent and demeaning to females.Duran Duran also had "formulated" music,new Aerosmith still reminds me of "Toy's in the Attic" day's.Everything old is new again..listen to The Verve- "Bitter Sweet Symphony" & "Lucky Man"(both on Youtube) great songs and will remind you of when R&R had full 103 piece symphony behind them. Jethro Tull had a run as well as Electric Light Orchestra .There are more but I can't remember all of them now. So will rap evolve ? not as long as people buy the CD's and it put's butt's in the seat's for the promoter.---Your avitar looks like the bass player for CCR back in the late 60's
2007-12-23 15:32:49 · answer #4 · answered by catspit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I've seen in the past couple decades is everyone re-doing what alreadys been done. The idea is old.....the artistic creativity is in other areas.
Heck imagine my surprise when my daughter was an Ozzie fan and I had to break the truth to her and pull out my old albums. LOL
There aren't too many kids out there who don't know the words to a Beatle tune either. I don't know what it says........hard to improve on perfection? Rap is still the only thing "different"......the youth have no creative imagination to come up with something "new" so they just try and re-do the tried and true?
I really don't know.......I just know creativity isn't born in a "drone" world where no-one is ever challenged and thoughts and behavior are too controlled.
2007-12-23 13:56:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe that's why I stopped listening to the radio, all the commercials and every other song is Rap. I refuse to listen.
So it is either CD's of my choice, or Sirius, where I can pick the stations, sans commercials.
You can not understand the lyrics, or they are vulgar at best.
Give me that old time R&R. Only a few of the new artists thrill me at all these days. Even some of the kids these days are finding some of our old songs and enjoying them, rather then the current jondra of music, that spews out of the airways.
2007-12-23 16:24:46 · answer #6 · answered by Moe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like vinyl & using turntables to mix my own sounds. It's a fun "hobby" that allows me to keep my creative juices flowing in a counter-productive kind of way! The "kids" are victims of recycling from the people who produce & engineer old albums into new tracks that are burned onto CD's & have added electronic sounds to cover up the original material.
That's one reason why I can't listen to it...I have a trained ear & it annoys the heck out of my brain! I'm a pureist in a funny sort of a way.
I enjoy listening to tribal, drum & bass, & house music that incorporates the old & the new in innovative ways!
Throw in some Henry Rollins or old Dead Kennedy stuff & I'm happy to hear poetry & words put to a beat & over-dubbed like a secret messenger service!
2007-12-23 13:41:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I often wondered what effect it would have on the car back 3 vehicles and playing the rap tunes rattling my car and teeth if I had a back seat full of speakers and woofers and tweeters and fired up a rousing version of the Beer Barrel Polka. Just imaging the amazement!! Puts a smile on my face. Just give me a tune that I can understand the lyrics too and I am a happy ol gal.
2007-12-23 16:46:59 · answer #8 · answered by lilabner 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Rap evolves too buddy, and like most modern music it evolves for the worse
2007-12-23 13:35:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
rap/hip hop has changed alot; at the beginning, it was much more positive think "The Message" or "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five; throwing light on social issues, not just glamorizing thug life and boasting about people murdered or nailed.
2007-12-23 13:37:58 · answer #10 · answered by Ja Funmi dba Big Baby 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure ready for rap to evolve into something with lyrics and music. Every time it comes on TV on some show I hit the mute button. It's not music.
2007-12-23 13:39:36 · answer #11 · answered by curious connie 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋