Should I Conform To The Norm? - Update VII

Should you ever produce music just to please your listeners? This time around I speak about conforming to what people expect from you and your music. My subscriber count and my upcoming album! Enjoy!

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[dfpguitar]

Great to hear your opinions, hyped to go hear some of your new music now!

I was thinking about older stuff though, you clearly have a uniquely detailed knowledge through the ages of hip hop, and interesting things that happened along the way, and of course how it was all made. I know you are saying you are all about progression and the future. But perhaps one of the best ways to foster interest is to help expose viewers to all that has come before? All the archetypes and interesting ideas that have already been explored. A lot of us younger lot will probably get our fix and appreciation of that "sound" and eventually come along the path to appreciating newer progressive stuff.

[immobilarity]

i like what you got going on, keep doing you

[TRADESMAN-xtce]

its true what your saying things have began to go backwards, somebody needs to start something new. the internet has killed it imo, music scenes don't grow naturally anymore its straight online and people don't have the time to develop a sound, just my thoughts on it

[mdjey]

I think it is how it goes you look back to take it farther. Remember Rock was basically step back to blues. Rhythm and Blues guitar play was taken from piano I believe, so when it went back there was already something changed. Look at Dub influenced styles, Trip Hop, Jungle, Dubstep doesn't sound the same as Dub either. One thing what I saw with Dubstep and it should be true with any style is that in the beginning of style there is no clear idea what it should exactly be so with first couple of artists you get pretty diverse albums(like Kode9 and Distance), then comes second handful of artists and they kind of look "oh this is how it should sound if it is Dubstep or Hip Hop or whatever". 90s was one of my favorite decade, second is 70s. Last thing that I heard from Hip Hop which I like very much is Skyzoo & Illmind. I like Mantronix, can't say the same about Trap but I hope with a time it will be easier to find what is what. I will keep on searching cause I'm also for something new. If I won't find anything then I will start making(I may sooner). And to make it further it doesn't really matter how it is called. As for latest movements I like how Mc Xander and Dub Fx makes music, I also like Virgin Babylon music especially Kashiwa Daisuke.

[ish]

I dropped out of listening and researching hip hop more so in 98-2000-present. I don't know if it was boredom or as you say a transition to listening to other types and styles of music. I listened to all types of music growing up, but or attention was more geared toward hip hop late eighties-early nineties and beyond. I find it funny that my brother and I were actually interested in heavy metal toward the late eighties, but we liked a variety of music. Hip hop these days is cool if the artist has something very interesting to say,  or some really good production may catch my attention. It's usually interesting lyrics and alright production/bad production versus good production and alright lyrics/terrible lyrics. I think Kendrick or whoever is doing poetry style elements with good music production is a forward thinking style for hip hop that was touched upon earlier in years, but not as much. Poetry is too intellectual for most young typical artists today, and the norm is taking over the radio waves. Corny shit that may have cool production.

I like forward thinking too, but I also like some nostalgic elements to incorporate,  and I personally don't like back tracking too much to music eras I remember. Some beats are just out dated or a certain style that really was whack and I didn't notice until later. Sometimes I hear certain old music of hip hop, and then I try to imagine how I thought that production was good? That's usually with time though.