What do you think will define this decade's music?

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

. . . Strand how can you say the Stripes aren't iconic but then mention Mayer as someone defining modern day music? This is where you lose me.

I was just using him as an example. I personally think he is in no way defining or iconinc, but he is popular and apparently lasting. But, the Beatles he is not.

Originally Posted by trackaghost

I have no idea of the Stripes' sales figures in the US but here they are huge, and they get played on the radio a lot, so I can only go on what I know.
Things like the fact that their performance at Glastonbury is still talked about years later, their albums go straight to number one and they are covered in everyday, big selling mainstream newspapers like The Mirror and The Sun in double-page spreads would indicate to me that they've made a cultural impact, and what I was trying to say before, is not that it's only critically lauded acts that are the defining artists of each decade, but their cultural impact is also important in addition to things like sales and radio play, although in this internet age I think radio play matters less and less.
Plus the majority of music acts considered to define each decade were fantastic! The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Nirvana etc. I don't think it's just the fact that they sell loads. There are plenty of acts that have sold a lot of albums that aren't considered defining.
Btw, I do totally agree about Eminem

Who knows, the WS may be that - but, I challenge anyone to say with a straight face that they have defined an era like The Beatles or Madonna did. After all, the latter were covered globally

Again, I am not commenting on the talent of the WS in a detracting manner. I am just saying they appear not to be at the level of gobal defining that people I mentioned appear to be and/or have been.