the end of dance music?

[Scarlett]

Who would like to predict where music will go next? I have a feeling that dance music is losing its popularity and that we are moving on.... men singing love ballads in falsetto seems to have been the trend for 2005 (Maroon 5,James Blunt, Daniel Powter etc)...McFly and Oasis are doing their best to sound as much like the Bealtles as possible.

So what's coming next?

[pagey]

I don't think dance music will end anytime soon - what Joe Public percieves as the current music trend is merely what is played on the radio and the top 40. These both follow current music tastes very closely and only show that male vocals and 'alternative' artists are doing well at the moment. Rhythm & Bass and Rap are bigger than ever while there are many other countries (particularly in europe) with huge dance scenes. Taste is cyclical, and eventually the top 40 and current popular music will be so saturated with male vocals, back-to-the-beatles acoustic music that the public will again demand something different. No-one can really predict what this new taste will be as music is a continual evolution.

[Sooper]

Well said Pagey! I agree Dance music and all its genres will never die out . Most proper dance music never makes it to Radio in the Daytime and hardly ever the top 40 which is suprising considering how much is being produced and is out there. House music is a massive musical genre and club culture is huge with tens of thousands of people going out and about clubbing not only at weekends but in the week too. Half the problem is that the mainstream media doesnt really understand it or want to so most people judge it by what they hear on the radio etc which isnt a true reflection which is good in my book ! I dont want all the top tunes to filter through to the likes of Chris Moyles etc, that would ruin it for me and i suspect many others. As the legend Carl Cox once said House is a feeling! Spot on i reckon!

[gary baldy]

People will always want to dance and the world of nightclubs didnt begin and end Ministry of Sound (or whatever). People have been going to nightclubs since the year dot and always will, dance music is a ever changing genre and will not disappear just evolve.
By the way Sooper - Carl Cox might have once said "House is a Feeling' but not before Hercules did in 1987 on 7ways to Jack (or Mr fingers on Can U feel it for that matter). There was House music before Carl Cox believe it or not!

[Sooper]

Thanks for that Gary! I was aware that Mr Cox was using a quote but i couldnt remember where the original came from! Thanks for pointing that out, but he did say it too! And yes House music was around before Mr Cox too! I am very old and remember it well , well most of it! You dont know Chad J by any chance do you?!!!!