The
industry news section in
the latest issue of local street press newspaper Beat has a fragment on how
the WTC attack will change music.
Apparently releases hard rock albums are being delayed by 6 months (probably
only in the US; the latest Gerling album is out here with the original title
and all), and hip-hop's trend to drop gangsta posturing has been accelerated
(a good thing, IMHO; boneheaded alpha-male posturing is a
huge liability for the hip-hop genre, as far as being taken seriously goes).
Furthermore, the piece says that it says that cynicism and self-absorption
are out (sounds like the death-of-irony meme again), and
"songs about family values" are in.
Does this mean that we will soon see bands like Radiohead and Placebo disappear
without a trace and Christian music acts take over the charts?