What's the Next Big Thing

 

When rap music first appeared our son, a teenager, remarked, "It seems like rap could be a big as Elvis and 50's rock n roll. It separates the generations." Now, decades later, he was not far off the mark.

Her we are in the mid 2020's, rap is old, Christianity is fading, and as always, times are changing. What sound and ideas could connect with new generations separated from rap generations? Not that I have any reason to know such a profound thing but it's such fun to peruse current art forms and speculate on what might appeal to young people even though they have no meaning to me.

A professor friend of mine studied the Mongolian art form of throat singing. Throat singing is found in other cultures as well including the Innuits. It is hard to describe except as a low-pitched vibration from the throat. I've read it is two or more notes at the same time caused by coordination of the throat and togue. Perhaps it carries longer distances than normal voice pitches. A group from Mongolia performs a modern version of the art and tours the U.S. The group HU in this video has over a million views. Could it be the next big thing?

The message, at least in the Mongolian version, is about worship of ancestors. I've read there is sometimes reference to a second coming of Gangues Khan. He would represent a return to a former time of a great and successful society on the Steppes.  

Could throat singing be adopted to English or could English speakers learn and use another language? And, if throat singing/ancestor worship became a thing, what ancestors might a new generation find attractive to worship? They do not seem to be very interested in the "ancestors" of the Bible. The white Christians who massacred the natives already here are fading in popularity. 

Maybe ancestor worship could be found from the slaves or the natives who were here before white people or the Chinese people who built the first cross country railroad. My brain is running over.