There's More Where That Came From

A little over a year ago I had a post discussing how country music seemed to have lacked the quality it used to.  As I look back at this post, I can see that I was being a bit biased, as I was comparing the music that I had grown up to as a kid, to the music of my pre-teen and teen years. Besides that, I also did notice that country music in the last year or so has begun to return to a more country/pop sound that was mainstream during the 1990’s, but with a twist. Mainstream Country in the mid to late 1990’s had a more adult contemporary type sound to it. Country music now seems to have more of an 80’s rock vibe to it with some dancy type beats added in. Whether this is good or bad is up to your opinion.

There are also some new trends happening on the pop chart this year as well. Electro-pop has become mainstream thanks to the likes of Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, and Katy Perry.  There also seems to be more 80’s like power pop happening. I guess this could be attributed to Micheal Jackson’s passing?

So as 2009 slowly comes to a close, what trends do you think are ahead for music, country and otherwise?