In which decade did mainstream music die?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: In which decade did mainstream music die?

Please post if you've anything to add, I love reading! :D

It started dying in the 1980s due to lack of creativity.

The 1990s saw alternative rock before the mainstream hijacked it, but by 1998 it seemed doomed to lie in coma.

The 2000s... that's a giveaway.

Non-mainstream rock still has some originality (e.g. techno/dance despite it being an updated form of disco)...

I'd say 2000s myself... everything's got a blatantly corporate feel to it these days. It's dead, Jim.

[jpgray]

1. Every decade at one time or another, according to music journalists

:D There's good stuff out there, but I think we're in some real repetitive doldrums right now. When something new comes along and really catches fire things will be different.

[Deja Q]

3. Yeah. Everybody will copy the new style if they can't make their

own innovation to it.

That's why Abba is timeless and the Bee Gees are dated, for example. One's stock disco, the other's got something transcendental about it.

That's why the Beatles are timeless and all the others are not.

And Creed. Assuming it becomes timeless, all the Creed copycats will be dated. :D

[amber dog democrat]

5. Creed copycats will be dated. - but NOT Creedence Clearwater

born on the bayou.... !

[Deja Q]

7. Good band, they are timeless!

CCR, of course. :D

[wyldwolf]

2. It hasn't...

..by it's very definition, "mainstream" music is what is currently accepted or is familiar to by the most people.

However, I was talking with my wife last night and we both agreed that so far the music of the 2000s hasn't developed a personality so to speak.

[amber dog democrat]

4. 1920s

I like my wife but oh you kid,
flapper,
23 skidoo
cats pajamas
shuffle off to buffalo
prohibition
bathtub gin
did I say flappers ?
jazzzzzzz
fox trots
the Charleston
tin lizzies
Valentino
Madam Blattavsky




Mainstream music never had a chance.

[david_vincent]

6. It started dying in the 70s

and it was killed by corporate efforts to control the market. Nothing drove record companies crazier than the unpredictability of music in the 60s. The last thing they wanted was bands like ? and the Mysterians coming from out of nowhere to Number 1. The sheer democracy of music in the 60s meant a lot of big record companies "missed out" on a lot of profits. Look at Hanky Panky - by the time it hit, the band had been broken up for years. Record companies simply can't tolerate that kind of thing. It's too chaotic. Corporations want steadily climbing profits based on predictable sales. So, in the 70s we were bombarded with idiot hippie bands and, even worse, disco.
And it's been in the toilet ever since, IMHO.

[dolo amber]

10. YEAH!

What he said!! :D

[amber dog democrat]

11. by that time lots of folks were into off-the-beaten path

Brittish imports, Grateful Dead, stuff that was NOT on the radar and would not get airplay anyway. I was a Zappa fan for years. - the same thing with Velvet Underground, There was a whole lot of things that were not available unless you could tune in to college radio stations. I agree. commercial marketing and the music industy pretty much killed of anything inovative in the mainstream.

[BlueMole]

12. FM Radio

Splinter the market for more corporate $$$

[sidestreamer]

8. It died when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed ((n/t))

[redqueen]

9. That is correct. n/t

[MrSlayer]

13. I'd say the 80's. MTV ruined music.

Style over substance became the norm instead of the exception as it had been in previous decades. Couple that with the music business being overtaken by businessmen instead of music people and you have disaster. Mainstream music is the worst it's ever been at the present time with no hope in sight.