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Global Music Trends

... Music trends popping up around the world.To young people around the world, music is supreme. More than half (53%) say they follow popular culture in this category, and it's the most common form of popular culture that youth follow; it's even higher in Mexico (65%), China (63%), and South Africa (60%). Additionally, 96% of global youth consider it important to their lives, and 61% go so far as to say that they can’t go a day without listening to music—this is particularly true in ...

POP Global

... slash fiction sites were shut down and their staff members were arrested as part of an Internet cleanup led by China’s National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications.FUNK MUSIC GOES MAINSTREAM IN BRAZILBrazilian funk, a dance-music genre based on loops of electronic drums and samples, began in the slums of Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s and has long been associated with the areas’ violence and poverty. However, as millions of Brazilians enter a new middle class, the genre is finally ...

POP Trends

... later this year in both NY and LA, with nation-wide e-commerce also in the works.J.Crew is preparing to introduce Mercantile, a line featuring merchandise and prices closer to what shoppers would find at a J.Crew Factory store.     POP MUSICEMERGENT GENRES SKATE ROCKA connection between skateboarding culture and rock music has persisted since the mid-’70s Dogtown and Z-Boys era, when bands like Black Sabbath and Aerosmith were worshipped as the half-pipe soundtrack of choice. In the ...

Pro Parodies

... , TV, music, books, and celebrities. Such “pro-”parodies are flourishing not as part of an effort to cut down their subjects, but as an original way for fans to celebrate and engage with their favorite culture content. Among young consumers and the actors and comedians they emulate, the desire to parody has become an immediate, instinctive response to everyday content consumption. One can barely keep tabs on the parodies proliferating online and trending across social media; a quick Google video ...

Outer Limits

... Colony, a three-day “galactic” music and tech festival taking place at Spaceport America in New Mexico in 2015, and, immediately after, will board the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo to sing at zero gravity.Lefse Records commissioned 14 modern bands and electronic-music producers to create songs out of cosmic recordings gathered by the NASA-launched Voyager spaceships. Their work, called The Space Project, was released this past year on Record Store Day.SPACE FASHIONAt Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fall 2014 RTW ...

The Binge Method

... binge mindset now extends beyond the screen. We’re seeing binge behaviors applied to books, magazines, music, gaming, and even social media. Newly popular are speed-reading apps that promise users the ability to tear through their Kindle libraries and Pocket queues at four times their usual reading rates. Among audiophiles, unlimited and inexpensive access to artists’ full catalogues via Spotify is inspiring a new wave of binge listening that can improve one’s understanding of an artist’s ...

POPscape

... popularity can nonetheless prove popular enough online to warrant a comeback (as was the case with the cancellation and subsequent Netflix revival of Arrested Development, or the Kickstarter-supported creation of a Veronica Mars movie). Similarly, indie music acts can now achieve conventional measures of mainstream success, due to fan-generated coverage and promotion. Just a few years ago, Vampire Weekend’s second album Contra (XL Recordings) debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard charts. More recently ...

For Your Entertainment

... By learning how each generation approaches TV and movies, music, and gaming, brands across industries can better engage with their consumers through entertainment.Each generation is subject to stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding their approach to entertainment based on age and life stage—from the notion that only younger generations are bingeing TV to the idea that older generations are completely out of touch with gaming. In truth, audiences across all generations are binge ...

Culture Spotlight On India

... Indian fashion and movies get back to the country’s roots, while new culture and habits emerge in gaming and music.The ways of the past are fading in India as young consumers are embracing new approaches when it comes to what music they listen to and how they listen to it, although they turn to heritage with a modern upgrade when it comes to fashion and style. Face The Music: Consumers Pony Up For MusicConsumers in India are accustomed to accessing music for free. In fact, every second ...