jbondo, on 21 June 2012 - 01:15 PM, said:
One thing most people don't realize is that music any lyric combinations are finite. Even styles have run out IMO.
Frankly, I believe we are too a point where the only thing that makes music new is new people.
Lyric combinations and melodies are finite but I don't think we are anywhere near exhausting them.
New people will always make new music (more exciting) as what is cutting edge to one generation will be 'run of the mill' to the next.
Take the Beatles for example, cutting edge, creative, innovative in their day. But for the average kid of today there music is dated and more suited to TV adverts than being the soundtrack to a great night out, therefore new music needs new artists and thus new ideas.