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从Billboard看欧美流行趋势:摇滚没落 EDM通吃

腾讯娱乐专稿(文/爱地人 策划/四月种地)不是我不明白,这世界变化快。欧美的流行音乐,这几年可以说是快速的洗牌,君不见Lady Gaga的风光,似乎还在眼前,但实际上如今的欧美乐坛,却早已经不是Lady Gaga的天下,甚至就连Adele这样的新生代女歌手,转眼间都已经成为殿堂级别的老一辈艺术家。

想要跟上欧美流行音乐的潮流?想要读懂欧美音乐产业的风往哪个方向吹?最简单的方法就关注Billboard。因为在这个历史悠久、分类齐全、涵盖全面的排行榜上,包括了欧美音乐产业核心国美国市场最精最全的数据,谁谁谁最受欢迎,谁谁谁卖的最好,谁谁谁在社交媒体人气最旺,谁谁谁的巡演票房最高等等,一切都在Billboard的掌握之中。

所以,Billboard就是欧美乐坛的说明书,只不过,这本说明书是一年一升级的,就像导航地图升级包,三年不更新、开车掉沟里,你说怪谁?想成为欧美乐坛老司机吗?你也该升级你的欧美音乐说明书了!

摇滚乐已经整体没落了

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今年大放异彩的摇滚乐队21 Pilots

摇滚乐历来是欧美乐坛的一个大类,更是一个相当重要的细分市场,而且欧美乐坛半个多世纪以来的电台播放”、“年度单曲流媒体数据”等奖项中都榜上有名,也算是过去一年的摇滚之光了,但终究还是掩盖不了摇滚乐在欧美音乐产业整体的没落。

EDM成为行业核心

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The Chainsmokers

EDM成为欧美乐坛的产业核心,已经是一个不争的事实。

虽然,从今年Billboard的“年度艺人”提名来看,仅仅只有The Chainsmokers这个组合,算是根红苗正的电音工作者。但如今EDM的可怕之处,就在于同样获得提名的Beyonce、Justin Bieber、Drake、Ariana Grande、Rihanna和The Weeknd等歌手的音乐,均或多或少地出现了大量电音的元素。尤其是Drake和The Weeknd,他们的作品和EDM甚至已经开始有了越来越多扯不清的关系。也是因为电音元素的大量介入,让The Weeknd为代表的新生代R&B歌手,把R&B带入了更梦幻迷离的Alternative R&B时代,和十几年前Usher那个时代的R&B完全不是一回事了。至于Mariah Carey时代的R&B,更像是古典R&B了。

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Justin Bieber等也大玩EDM元素

而The Chainsmokers的异军突起,更让EDM迎来又一个新的偶像代表。他们和Calvin Harris的畅销,也说明House依然还是EDM界的主流,只不过比起十年前的House,如今的House也正在向Deep House、Progressive House等更细分的曲风发展。而Flume等音乐人的上位,也说明Future Bass、Wonky这种新型的EDM曲风,也开始在市场具有很高的占有率。

欧美乐坛发展近一个世纪,有一个轴心永远没有变化,那就是歌手肯定要依靠唱片公司,才能获得好的发展。虽然九十年代的地下摇滚一度红火,进入新世纪后,独立摇滚也以反叛的姿态,给了主流公司一点颜色,但最终它们也都在商业体系下被收编。至少绝大多数的独立唱片公司,最终都归属于国际三大唱片公司,即使不是彻底的归属,绕着弯也多少能找到和国际三大的亲戚关系。

不过,现在说某某艺人的第一印象,不再是他背后的唱片公司,而是他在社交媒体的表现。在今年Billboard提名名单中,除了“年度社交艺人”这个选项不用多说之外,其实在大部分提名奖项里,都可以看到社交身影的无处不在。即使很多歌手靠的还是音乐作品,但社交媒体的传播,以及他本人在社交媒体的言行,还是成为他或她红不红的关键。

比如今年大热之一的The Chainsmokers,就非常会利用社交媒体,通过在社交媒体将自己“包装”成两大恶人,与Lady Gaga等艺人完成一次一次决斗后,也让他们的影响力进一步扩大。

The Chainsmokers成员在推特上辱骂Lady Gaga等人,随后说自己被盗号

而Selena Gomez虽然音乐上很难讲有多大的超越,但她在INS上,却早已经是女神级的存在,照片、视频都是排名前几位的红人。至于今年同样获得多个提名,和Selena Gomez也是老相识的Justin Bieber更不用说,他不仅是第一代的社交媒体音乐人,也是这个领域的代表人物了。

与EDM的融合度 决定是否流行


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The Weeknd的曲风已经不是传统意义上 的R&B了

除了音乐分类提名,总结今年Billboard其它综合类的奖项,大致有一个规律,那就是现在的欧美乐坛最吃香的还是三种音乐类型:R&B、EDM和Hip-Hop。而摇滚乐、乡村乐这种传统的音乐类型,都有被边缘化的倾向。后者在今年的大热,主要还是靠Florida Georgia Line这个组合在撑门面。

从欧美流行音乐的发展趋势来看,融合可以说是永恒的命题。正是因为融合,才让现代流行音乐从布鲁斯、乡村音乐,一路发展下来。而R&B、EDM和Hip-Hop看似三家,其实从现在的局面来看,则更像是一家,因为彼此之前的合作,已经越来越默契了。比如The Weeknd的音乐,如果你以Mariah Carey这样的音乐作为标准,第一时间你都不敢确定他的音乐还是R&B,甚至倒更像是Ambient。

这一切都源于电子音乐的发展,而EDM无限可能性的属性,更让它高度渗透到许多音乐类型。相比之下,乡村音乐和摇滚音乐为什么没落,也是因为在融合方面,它们还是显得有些封闭,在保持传统的基础上,还没有在技术层面有新的突破。以摇滚乐为例,近十年轰轰烈烈的Indie留下的是什么?其实并不是新的曲风,所谓的Indie偶像,更多还是在复刻十几二十年前,甚至更早的车库、朋克、迷幻等等音乐类型,却没有创造出像Grunge那样崭新的摇滚音乐形式。

所以,这下你知道想走在时代前列,该听什么音乐了吧!
 
The decline and fall of rock and roll
U2's decision to mass release their new album to iTunes account holders represents only the latest in a long line of crimes against rock music
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U2's new album has been shared with half a billion iTunes customers Photo: AP

By Andrew Woods

8:20AM BST 16 Sep 2014

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Rock and roll died at some indeterminate point during the Noughties. No one saw the body or heard a shot, but it had been in bad health for quite some time. Once the talk centred around the medium and not the material, and the moneymaking suits moved in on the creative process, the hand of rock and roll dropped its plectrum and went limp. What we are experiencing right now is a prolonged wake.

U2's decision last week to force-feed their latest offering of stadium-grade rock to half a billion unsuspecting iTunes account holders was an unnecessary nail in the lid of a coffin that is already firmly shut. Buying an album has always been about exercising personal choice, but this was music for the voiceless masses. As though the songs weren't stomach-churning enough.

In truth, today's music doesn't upset, outrage, or shock me. It's just flippin' boring.

The record on my teenage daughter's turntable is Tears For Fears' debut album The Hurting (from 1983). Well, why listen to bands obsessed with the Eighties (there's lots of them at the moment) when the Eighties is still available? She does listen to modern bands too, but so far there's been nothing too depraved or doom-laden on her Spotify account. Just a lot of nice young men who dress like H&M models or I.T. technicians staring at their plimsolls – and people said prog rock was dull.

You only have to look at the music press to see how far rock and roll has fallen.

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When I was 16, the NME was a dark, ink-heavy broadsheet full of menacing northerners and 5,000 word essays on the influence of the Weimar Period, quantum physics and jack boots. The interviews were tricksy, confrontational; PR was but a distant rain cloud. The photos were of scowling, pockmarked prophets and inebriated punks. Today's NME is a colourful, jolly little magazine with weeny word counts and sales just a smidgen above that of a Gillingham home game. It looks like the kind of paper stacked by the door in Top Shop, packed with floppy-haired people in jumpers, woolly hats and novelty glasses, clutching tote bags. Everyone is so good looking and comfortable as they pose for a photograph while drinking bottled water. The Selfie Generation does E-Cigarettes and No Alcohol, if you will.

Of course, NME has a bulging online presence, lending the magazine a 'massive reach' that marks it out as no longer the outsider commentating on the music industry. But then, it's not always commentating on the music industry anyway. As I write, the top story on NME is about Brad Pitt getting married. The next two stories involve Harry Potter and John Lennon. I remember NME offering a chance to recoil at the vile, putrid obnoxious insects that challenged my very way of life. In contrast, this 21st Century version is positively anodyne.

I'm sure there are interesting performers out there – of course there are. There is good music but not great music. Rock and roll as a countercultural force is over. Where it once articulated the anger and confusion of the youth, they now turn to online forums and Snapchat. Or maybe they're just happy. A terrifying thought.

Society and culture have changed dramatically over the last 15 years. Is there an actual underground? Music now seems to be a series of niche communities or markets, where material is directed, consumed and contained. I'm OK with that, I lived through more interesting times, but for the young of today? Sheesh. No wonder a bucket of cold water is going viral.

Modern music faces battles on many fronts. It is always going to be harder to innovate when the major technological revolutions in music have already been and gone: synthesising, scratching, sampling, looping and mixing. There is no money in downloading. What was always a risky lifestyle is now borderline insane. Who wants to sell their soul for 'likes'? There have been far greater times than Now. Within the relatively short lifespan of rock music, this represents the nadir. If you don't believe me, look to the past, which has never been in ruder health (two words: Kate Bush).

I relived the glorious past myself last night by viewing the now 30-year-old video for Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Two Tribes, which arcs urine over anything termed 'pop' today. I was genuinely astonished by just how ambitious Eighties' pop was, never mind the alternative scene. A band of camp and straight scamps, FGTH went to number one after turning the Cold War into a dark disco stomp. The video was banned. Yes, banned. How quaint. Because there was a war then, between Us (the youth) and Them (the bastards). It was a conflict that generated passion, tension and hate.


Today's youth are in a unique position: they can tailor their media intake across decades of material, on numerous platforms, all day and all night. You no longer need to sit next to your radio listening to John Peel or wait for five minutes of salvation on Top Of The Pops once a week. YouTube never sleeps. Culture has become first-person, peer-to-peer and the battle – with the bastards – is over. The anger and frustration of yesteryear is now a distant concept. There's no fight to get youthful voices heard anymore. Boredom has been trashed – boredom was important – and humour is now king. Humour and good old sex.

Sex is still trying gamely to sell music, but a million twerking arses will never compete with actual sex and this has never been easier to experience or spectate. Music as 'protest' now seems oddly quaint too compared with the mite of social media. Rock music isn't so much dead as redundant. Nothing is as shocking as the internet. With extreme sex, crass humour and the odd beheading, how can a mohawk haircut or a rude word on a teatime telly show possibly compete? As Holly Johnson says somewhat prophetically in Two Tribes: “Are we living in a land where sex and horror are the new gods?”

The gods used to be musicians though. I can only imagine how excited my mum was to see Elvis, Bob Dylan and The Beatles on TV. I can remember being terrified of Bowie and the Sex Pistols as a kid. I can still recall that feeling of a freshly-skinned head and a Doc Marten boot. I saw the synthesizer replace the lead guitar. Then there was The Smiths on Top of the Pops and hearing Public Enemy and NWA for the first time. Thrash metal, acid house, baggy, hip-hop, trip-hop, grunge, jungle ... Music that transformed the way we looked, the way we were. Tribes. What will define this era in years to come? Mark Zuckerberg? #christ
 
RIP rock'n'roll? Professor of pop reads the last rites
Rock songs in the charts fall to lowest level in 50 years, with only three tracks appearing in the top 100 best-sellers

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Rock acts like Bon Jovi have fared well on tour, but R’n’B and hip-hop acts are selling more singles. Photograph: Brian Rasic /Rex Features
Monday 10 January 2011 22.14 GMTFirst published on Monday 10 January 2011 22.14 GMT

It is a claim made before by, among others, Lenny Kravitz and the Swedish garage band the Hellacopters. But today, after years of struggle, came evidence to support the fearsome claim: rock'n'roll is dead.
 
狂野雄性的摇滚时代已经过去了。好像不是我一人这么认为。
现代的流行音乐像 the doors 的粗野,metallica 的雄性金属已经不再流行?肯定有,但是在成功的不多。
能看到的是精致的电子声,阴柔的R&B男声在排行榜的前面。反而女声出了些比较大气的音乐。时代。
 
狂野雄性的摇滚时代已经过去了。好像不是我一人这么认为。
现代的流行音乐像 the doors 的粗野,metallica 的雄性金属已经不再流行?肯定有,但是在成功的不多。
能看到的是精致的电子声,阴柔的R&B男声在排行榜的前面。反而女声出了些比较大气的音乐。时代。
在我看来,摇滚和阴柔的R&B男声是两个极端,都不是什么正常的东西。披头士啊,崔健啊什么的那是些什么玩意儿啊,他们唱起歌来就跟蹲厕所便不出来使劲便一样。
 
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你这比喻,玩摇滚的跟你急。披头士只算是摇滚初期。哪里有崔健的劲头。披头士唱的可没有压抑的嗓音。
 
@XCYM ,我最近很fan一个英国乐队——The Heavy
这几天,天天听他们的

 
流行乐一年能出几张唱片,讲究的是潮流和效率。一出演唱会就走音。
摇滚和金属几年出一张,各种练习和技巧,上台能马上表演。
能比吗?




玩摇滚和听摇滚的从来不在意潮流,上面那两个乐队算是偏重旋律,向潮流妥协了一点的了。
 
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流行乐一年能出几张唱片,讲究的是潮流和效率。一出演唱会就走音。
摇滚和金属几年出一张,各种练习和技巧,上台能马上表演。
能比吗?




玩摇滚和听摇滚的从来不在意潮流,上面那两个乐队算是偏重旋律,向潮流妥协了一点的了。


这口味重了点。佩服。
 
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