Will we ever run out of melodies?

July 26, 2011 8:41am CST
Since the early years of the 1900's the music scene has changed rapidly. New genres were created, new styles of playing, and innovations in the field of music have come about as well. Now that we're at the beginning of a new century, do you think we can continue to innovate and change music the same way great musicians of the past have done? and with so many songs created every day will we run out of rhyme and melody?
2 responses
• Philippines
26 Jul 11
even as i'm replying to your post, a new type of genre, new music, is on the process.. humans are never satisfied with the current types of things. even music.. the people of beethoven's era thought that his piece was one of a kind, and is like the final piece of music.. the final genre.. but what happened?.. people are so innovative that they taught of something different from the genre of the oldies, a genre that suits their mood, and other people, upon hearing it, will start to hum it, start to recognize it, and eventually start to love it and make it another genre. just wait for some time until that process of creating something is complete.. i'm sure you'll live to tell the tale.. XD
26 Jul 11
Hi there! I agree, we humans are innovative and I do hope the next Lennon or McCartney is around the corner. Thanks for you reply
• Philippines
26 Jul 11
You never know. The way I see it the old songs become the new, the new become the old. It's like an ancient cycle of generations of forgetting and rediscovering. For now I'm noticing that we are now dancing to foreign music that most of us can't understand squat. So maybe that's the next innovation of the FUTURE!!! A future were songs are just good sounding gibberish. And it's tough to run out of gibberish :3