The Future of Festivals

 

Festivals is finally coming back around to where it began, producers on stage sharing their projects they have made with a variety of artists. DJs and house music has gone through ebbs and flows of lyrical and technical music such as Daft Punk to the more pop Calvin Harris Avicii and David Guetta. Fred Again and Skrillex have both proven to be on the high rise with their Coachella lineup. Metro Boomin has this year brought out The Weeknd, Future, 21 Savage, P Diddy, and more

I can see the future of music pop music festivals like Coachella putting more interest like a Diplo, Jack Antonoff, Timbaland, or Pharell. Other lesser known produces such as Mike Will Madeit, Marc Ronson, Stargate with collabs with My Chemical Romance, Green Day, and Paramore. Stargate is a producer who has made records with Neyo Beyonce and Rihanna. There is tons of opportunity with working more with producers to build up the Music Industry from Within. 

There are lots of artists who only have enough promotion to be a one hit wonder but this strategy can build other artists up as well with collabs with newer artists or introducing senior producers with lesser known talent. Like an industry meet and greet or a private show built around certain producers can create more collaboration. 

The casual music listener might only be familiar with music on the radio or through word of mouth. Spotify seems too saturated, Soundcloud as well, and Youtube might be less music based than when it started. The older outlets might be where to promote music, like radio interviews, meet and greets, mix tapes, acoustic performances, and one off shows. 

Music is too saturated and less personable. Adding in the new trend with AI might be good with how transparent how much music production goes into a song, an album or sample licensing. People seem wary right now but like the Drake AI song, todays songs are all mixed and mastered before hitting any streaming service. People are just wary because the AI version is just the same as a song they would normally hear on Spotify because thats how much production goes into a song already. 

This AI technology I feel will almost collab with producers already (if it has not already in terms of licensing) will push a focus on live singing. Years back the main focus was on rock live bands and then went to more pop focused with dancers and theatrics such as a Katy Perry or Taylor Swift and now I feel tech will be a huge focus minus the video walls and staging.