Could the music of the future transgress the walls of genres?
In today's streaming era, with more exposure to music than ever before, listeners as well as artistes have begun to veer away from the confines of genres
A couple of decades ago, if a teenager walked upto another and asked what kind of music he or she listens to, and one said "rap" and the other said "metal", the odds of them hanging out together would be very slim. Cut to 2018 and the very possibility of either of them naming a single genre is minimal.
According to a recent survey by Vice Magazine, 78 percent of young people said they couldn’t be defined by the genre they listened to. That's actually a huge shift in audience tastes, but one that can easily be understood when put in context.
Until the era of online bootlegs and peer-to-peer sharing, which sprouted somewhere in the early 2000s, the most common method of music consumption was the radio.