Second generation Hispanics are almost all English dominant. There is no cumulative effect of Latino migrants to the USA.
Could Bad Bunny expand his popularity with an English-language album, then?
Second generation Hispanics are almost all English dominant. There is no cumulative effect of Latino migrants to the USA.
Nearly all of his stuff is in highly idiomatic Puerto Rican street Spanish and I doubt that his background and culture could produce anything comparable in English.Could Bad Bunny expand his popularity with an English-language album, then?
Nearly all of his stuff is in highly idiomatic Puerto Rican street Spanish and I doubt that his background and culture could produce anything comparable in English.
That said, I don't doubt that some English language material may be coming. But, today, the Spanish language music market is larger than the North American English language one.
Or maybe they go the other way, like maybe "Fats Waller"It will probably be mostly a mix of Top 40 hits including rap, R&B, alternative, and pop from the 2000s through the 2020s but who knows. The 1980s could still be memorable by then but just not playing on Classic Hits stations anymore. Classic Hits will likely include more 90s/2k rap in the next few years.
You just know the good ones whenever you start instantly hearing the music in your head before you finish reading the song title.Any guesses on the expiration dates of Take On Me, Tainted Love, Don't You Want Me Baby, Never Gonna Give You Up, or Come On Eileen on K-EARTH? What will be the last song standing from the 80's?
And a good number of them will assuredly be by Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Drake and many of the other current artists that many Boomers and Gen X'ers here regularly claim have no talent and will be forgotten long before 2040. Cue the expected reaction: "Oh, and why don't they play real musical instruments!?!?!? And don't get me started on Auto-Tune!!!!"The songs that migrate from KIIS to KOST and KBIG will eventually make it to KRTH. The most loved of these songs will probably be played in 2040.
So you have a vision of classic hits veering toward a largely melodic, rap-free format. Kind of flies in the face of how CHR has been trending for the past decade.Drake's "music" does not cross over to AC so I doubt it will be played on Classic Hits in 2040. Maybe some of the more melodic songs by Bieber may be heard. Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift are superstars so in seventeen years they are very likely to receive airplay. I believe Gaga and Swift use real instruments. Another one to watch is Olivia Rodrigo who is talented and from listening to her album sounds like real drums and guitars.
The songs that migrate from KIIS to KOST and KBIG will eventually make it to KRTH. The most loved of these songs will probably be played in 2040.
In the eighties and into the nineties KOST and KBIG were very soft, so the good, uptempo music came from KIIS or KROQ. These songs eventually made their way to KRTH.
Mr. Bunny is also the cover and the lead interview in this month's Vanity Fair:On the other hand, Bad Bunny will be both the host and musical guest on NBC Saturday Night Live this weekend (10/21).
Mr. Bunny appears poised for as unlikely a conquest of CHR as Mr. Roll has accomplished at country radio.Mr. Bunny is also the cover and the lead interview in this month's Vanity Fair:
Bad Bunny on Sex, Social Media, and Kendall Jenner
The genre-busting megastar opens up about his life off the global stage. Just don’t ask about his new music.www.vanityfair.com
For a classic hitter in 2040 to have a library the size of a classic hitter today, the era window will have to be wider
You assume that the rhythmic trend, already more than 30 years old, will completely reverse itself in the next 17 years and that all those listeners who've been enjoying rap and trap for so long will somehow erase those preferences from their minds and gravitate toward "audience-friendly" (Soft AC? Melodic pop? Rock in the style of decades long past?) music. I can see no logical way that happens.You are exactly right. There are just too many songs put out in the last 20 years that are not suitable for classic hits play by then. Drake, no matter how many ridiculous album bombs he has on the Hot 100 chart these last few years, and last week, little if any of it, is classic hits material. In fact, much of the recent rap and trap scene will be skipped over in favor of more audience friendly tunes and artists released since 2005. Plenty of them to choose from to make decent playlists come 2040, but yes spread from over many other years.
You assume that the rhythmic trend, already more than 30 years old, will completely reverse itself in the next 17 years and that all those listeners who've been enjoying rap and trap for so long will somehow erase those preferences from their minds and gravitate toward "audience-friendly" (Soft AC? Melodic pop? Rock in the style of decades long past?) music. I can see no logical way that happens.
I'm thinking a fusion of K-Day and K-Big.I don’t even want to think about it!
It’ll sound similar to K-Day