| DWI |
Posted
on 09-Oct-03 07:52 AM
To be HIP is to Change
Atleast that's what music industry says. If you have seen the latest OutKast video and heard it's album, you will know what I meant.
The music sounds like rock/pop, from a hit Hip Hop band. The visualization is a ditto copy of Beatles performing on American Stage for the first time (I think Ed Sullivan show). The rapper, Andre (Ice Cold 3000), dresses like Beatles and gives British flavor to the whole song.
And the song is no.1 on the charts.
So, while the whole industry was turning towards Hip Hop, even white stars like No Doubt, Madonna, AeroSmith are taking that route, why is a Hip Hop band experimenting rock music? Probably for a change (besides they aren't sticking with POP forever). When America was singing blues and pops, Elvis introduced the blackish Rock & Roll and his 'hip' movements became hip. Change is hip and Hip is change.
The question is, has the Music industry reached its saturation point with Hip hop already? Noway. Bands might stop popping up like mushroom in one genre but there is always somebody who gives a continuation. Sean Paul might be hip hop but he gives reggaeish style to the music. They said Punk/Grunge (Alternate) is dead, but we still have bands popping up with same, Greendayish voice (Simple Plan, Sum 41).
Bottomline, to be hip is to change or even better, cause the change. But change doesn't mean a change in entirity, there always is a residue.
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