Music: Past and Future – How Will We Be Remembered?

Music in the modern world has become a thing of the throw-away society. We come and go from bands and singers so fast that when someone re-mentions them you turn around and say “Oh yeah! remember them??” How is it that the music we listen to now is exactly the same as music five years ago but the bands of five years ago are no longer heard of?

How is it that composers such as Mozart or Beethoven are still remembered and still widely played all over the world when we can hardly remember what was on the radio this morning? Has music become so ordinary and similar that as soon as a new band comes out with a slight twist on old notes they are instantly loved until they in turn are cast aside for the next group to break through to the glittery world of the music industry? The answer lies in the attention span of the media runners. The people who deem what is popular enough for a spot on television only have an attention span of a three year old and become bored with new material once it has become established and move onto the next. If you actually follow a band you will find that they either continue making music for the small group of dedicated fans who stick by them or drop off the face of the earth never to be seen again until their reunion tour ten years on.

If we want to make music which will be remembered 100 years from now we need to find some new tunes. The small bands generally have different taste in music to the huge ones so why don’t we give them a shot? They are only small because they have a different taste and so have a smaller following.

If we want to be remembered we need to vary our types of music out there.