Another theme I see fading into the gray is genre distinction. These days, nothing great you hear on the radio seems to come from just one musical influence. The wild, unpredictable fun in making music today is that anything goes. Pop sounds like hip hop; country sounds like rock; rock sounds like soul; and folk sounds like country—and to me, that's incredible progress. I want to make music that reflects all of my influences, and I think that in the coming decades the idea of genres will become less of a career-defining path and more of an organizational tool.
Today I was listening to the radio and they played a snippet of Alien followed by the leak original vocals and then an audio of Chris Crocker's 2007 meltdown.
YAS, Alien for #BJSingle3. The controversy has begun. Poor ISBE!
The fact that Taylor has only gotten better with every era (sales/acclaim) really makes me question what would happen if she flopped/underperformed with the next.