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Already merged and more to come: pop and trap predictions

Facts

Can romantic-themed pop be related to the harder trap style? The answer is “obviously yes”. The pursuit of economy of means and the constant reformulation of simplicity in pop are already defining features of the genre. Lately we’ve been hearing a lot of trap music everywhere, it seems like it’s been at the top of urban music for years, but this is not quite the case: trap has stabilised and is moving into a niche market that will take it out of the top of mainstream genres. Throughout this blog I will explain it to you.

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Top genres in Spain 2020

Urban music is constantly changing, always looking for new versions of itself. Different genres blend together, creating new fixations for thousands of artists. And of course, every year a good part of the different genres that dominate the market go up and down like in the stock market: either they become fashionable due to the influence of an important artist or they go down in popularity due to the push of other concepts that have led to a better artist-consumer artistic transmission.

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Trap artists and their entourage: fighting prejudice by example

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What I’m going to talk about today are some pretty well known prejudices within urban culture and applicable to any genre of mainstream music (yes, I know it only says “rappers” in the title?). For quite some time now there has been a problem of concepts around the most well known artists and their supposed lack of creativity when it comes to lyrics, vocal melodies and even co-production work.

These kinds of thoughts are mostly rumours and hoaxes that have been completely discarded to this day. Most of the artists I will present here as examples give a small statistical slice that in general shows how things are done nowadays: works are produced by teams of professionals and in consensus with the artists, who have enormous scope for taking action and often manage their contracts themselves, as well as taking an active role in their image and artistic promotion, but above all in their music.

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Which career path do I have to take to become a composer/ music producer in Spain?

Do you want to dedicate yourself to music composition or modern music production and you don’t really know where to go or what kind of training you need? I understand you perfectly well, if studying music in general is complicated in terms of orientation, music production and composition are not even mentioned. Specialisation in this field is almost always unofficial and blurred, it is very difficult to know exactly where to go to receive a really solid training that will help us to develop a quality professional career.

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