Is a new band gonna be a fad or something real with an impact?

[xXJust Jump ItXx]

Good point/question here... If a new band comes out, lets say One Direction cause they are new, but are they a fad or something 20 years from now like Nirvana we will listen to and love? Justin Beiber is gone it seems... Left in the dust! But is One Direction or any new coming bands gonna be remembered or be a few albums, 5 years, out thing?

[Elysium]

The current generation tends to obsess over something pretty and then move onto something prettier when it gets bored. Trends come and go pretty quickly nowadays. One Direction is just another pretty boy band that'll be forgotten in the wake of yet another group of mildly attractive teenage boys. The Jonas Brothers could tell you all about it. I don't see any current musical trends becoming something major like Nirvana is.

[Lost in the Echo]

I think they will be forgotten, bands like Nirvana are epic and deserve respect, One Direction hasn't earned respect with their shitty music, their lyrics are poorly written like most mainstream music. Nirvana's lyrics in their music had actual meaning.

[xXJust Jump ItXx]

I think they will be forgotten, bands like Nirvana are epic and deserve respect, One Direction hasn't earned respect with their shitty music, their lyrics are poorly written like most mainstream music. Nirvana's lyrics in their music had actual meaning.

I agree, Bo. They co write... and they ONLY did co write lyrics to be part of it. But their music has no meaning, yes is poorly written and is just made for money not with actual thought in it and meaning like Nirvana. Kurt did songs with pure meaning, and everything!

[Sugaree]

I think they will be forgotten, bands like Nirvana are epic and deserve respect, One Direction hasn't earned respect with their shitty music, their lyrics are poorly written like most mainstream music. Nirvana's lyrics in their music had actual meaning.

You...have got to be kidding. In Bloom and Breed are just two songs Nirvana had where the lyrics were specifically about sex or had references to the related. Those lyrics have no meaning at all and simply fit the genre of Grunge. Go listen to Soundgarden or Pearl Jam and you'll most likely get the same thing. One Direction can have just as much meaning in their lyrics to someone as Nirvana does to another person.

Really, if you think about it, there's still plenty of bands and artists that have solidified their position in the music world. You won't hear them on the radio or see their videos on TV, but they ARE there. Kendrick Lamar, MF Doom, Porcupine Tree, Isis, The Mars Volta...these are all bands or artists that are making impacts on their respective genres, but you'd never know it. Om, an experimental group formed in Jerusalem, could definitely give the psychedelic scene a new kick for the public, but it's not profitable. Really, in the end, the industry looks for something with profit. Nirvana was that way, no matter how much Cobain said he was against the system he worked for. Nirvana was, and still is, a huge money machine; something Cobain would roll in his grave over. It's ironic.

[xXJust Jump ItXx]

Sound Garden... I aint sure about, I never looked up their song meanings but they are good. But Pearl Jam on the Ten album and Lost Dogs had some really meaningful songs like Black, Alive, Even Flow, Yellow Ledbetter. And the One Directions songs I aint gonna look but they arent like grunge, in grunge they dont have happy, jumpy songs its about hurt, pain, hard life and anything really. But its got meaning. One Direction Im not seeing it...

[bigfoot]

one directions sucks balls... and not in the good way. Nirvana's lyrics do have meaning, so does pearl jam's and soundgarden's.
You want to expierence emotion or meaning? Play Tourette's by nirvana. Or you could shoot heroin in you viens, set yourself on fire, and jump out a plane.
You wanna know the direction that "One direction" is headed towards? directly down. You know those crappy eighties bands with the synths and stuff that we laugh at, because they are so stupid? In thirty years kids will laugh at one direction.

oh and about kurts's lyrics; he relate his lyrics to life and money and fame and hate and happieness and just about every feeling. just read his journals.

[Sugaree]

You know those crappy eighties bands with the synths and stuff that we laugh at, because they are so stupid? In thirty years kids will laugh at one direction.

oh and about kurts's lyrics; he relate his lyrics to life and money and fame and hate and happieness and just about every feeling. just read his journals.

How is 80's music crap? C'mon, you're not serious when you just say that and don't give a reason other than "they're stupid". If you want a stupid looking band, look at Kraftwerk back in the 70s. They looked like the German version of The Beach Boys and made electronic music before it really hit the mainstream masses. Really, judging an artist on how they look is judging a book by its cover.

Kurt's lyrics were also really teenage angst filled poetry. Yeah, I've read his journals and it's pretty hypocritical. So set against the capitalist mainstream record companies yet he was turned into exactly what he hated. People ate it up and they still do. Yes, I like Nirvana. I think Kurt was an excellent songwriter. But I think anyone who says the majority of his lyrics really penetrate the deepest thought or purest emotion is just idiotic.

[Empty Spaces]

I don't know why are you guys comparing Nirvana and One Direction.
To be honest, yeah, i think they'll be forgotten. I think 1D somehow replaced Justin Bieber because 1D = 6xJustin Bieber. They're mostly liked for they looks, their songs are about girls, love, and how every girl is beautiful in her own way. And girls like that. I'm not one of them, but it is what it is. Everyone has a right to listen to whatever they think it's good. Some people like this music, some not, and that's ok.

[xXJust Jump ItXx]

I don't know why are you guys comparing Nirvana and One Direction.
To be honest, yeah, i think they'll be forgotten. I think 1D somehow replaced Justin Bieber because 1D = 6xJustin Bieber. They're mostly liked for they looks, their songs are about girls, love, and how every girl is beautiful in her own way. And girls like that. I'm not one of them, but it is what it is. Everyone has a right to listen to whatever they think it's good. Some people like this music, some not, and that's ok.

AH! Someone got what I was thinking!!! One Directions image is designed to appease to teen girls really. They co write their music being its all about love, fun, etc. And yeah that one song, Im 99% sure its made to make every girl feel beautiful. I make my girlfriend feel beautiful and so much more by not using a song, having 4 other dudes in skinny jeans jump around with me and I dont have crappy hair. *cough* Harry Styles. But that song she thinks is catchy and doesnt make her think shes beautiful, not to sound mean. I do that... But yeah we arnet forced to listen to 1D unless its on the radio... :p

[Empty Spaces]

AH! Someone got what I was thinking!!! One Directions image is designed to appease to teen girls really. They co write their music being its all about love, fun, etc. And yeah that one song, Im 99% sure its made to make every girl feel beautiful. I make my girlfriend feel beautiful and so much more by not using a song, having 4 other dudes in skinny jeans jump around with me and I dont have crappy hair. *cough* Harry Styles. But that song she thinks is catchy and doesnt make her think shes beautiful, not to sound mean. I do that... But yeah we arnet forced to listen to 1D unless its on the radio... :p

Exactly. Their first single is catchy, but it's not kind of music i listen to everyday. And yeah, they're trying to make girls feel beautiful, which is fine, some girls may be insecure about themselves, and if they make them feel better, then yeah, that's fine. I don't need anyone to tell me i'm beautiful to make me feel confident, but we're all different, it's a fact.:)

[sodomizer]

Fads are all crap, listen to what you like.

[Syvelocin]

History is just going to repeat itself. Like there were forgettable artists in the 20th century, there are in the 21st. Like there are memorable artists, there will be memorable artists. I think people forget that because we are only living in the present and we only hear about the memorable ones, thus we put the past on a pedestal because it seems "so much better" than the present when it was rather similar, our standards have just changed.

I can give you predictions but nothing solid. I think Bieber, One Direction, Ke$ha, etc. will be forgotten. I have this feeling Lady Gaga's going to be one of the artists remembered from this decade, however. Probably Adele too. You have to look at the impact they've made. While Lady Gaga is either beloved or criticized, she's a huge cultural icon of today. Like I said, history repeats itself.

[deadpie]

why are you comparing nirvana to a boy band/teen-pop group named one direction

I don't see anything from mainstream radio stations leaving an influential impact on music that's worth looking back on in twenty or even five years.

[Aves]

Let's face it, not every band becomes famous enough to stand the test of time. It's a rather impressive thing to do actually. There are few bands I can think of that I love that will be looked back on in even 5 years by the general public if they called it quits now. No, One Direction will not be "famous" in a few years I think. And that's because they're music is just as generic as most pop artists.

[Allanon]

i seriously doubt it