Music Trends In 2012

When exploring the popular music trends and hot beats in 2012, the word is pop culture from around the world. It is not a year for pop music in the anthem rock or teeny bop sense, but a mass movement from various cultures globally. Pop artists are coming out of South Africa, the old Soviet republics, China, Mexico, Nigeria, Japan and even places like South Korea. It is an invasion from the Southern and Eastern hemispheres that is expanding musical awareness worldwide. This will be a pop culture revolution in music that is unlike anything the West has seen before. With it will also be the components of the current 2012 vibe. These will include both trendy apocalypse culture and a new psychedelic renaissance. If anything is for sure, 2012 will rock with a big beat sound and sample with a synthetic sense of magic. The 2012 youth are apprehensive and wide eyed for the coming year both culturally and philosophically. This is being expressed in the arts, media and online presence of bands all over the world. East meets West is an understatement when viewing the potent trends in music and the arts for this climatic year. The end of the Mayan calendar will be made to hybrid with the starstruck feel of 808 sonic boombox thunder. The evocation of ancient mysticism will remix from the underworld of hacktivism and algorithmic trance beats. Bands like Afrobeats or Rocket Juice and the Moon in the UK are sure to be hot. While in the USA you will see things in the mode of Skrillex and YACHT growing out of the underground pop scene. All around the mood will be global with a strong dose of technopaganism. Even the most urban hip hop spun world music offspring will be remixed on software like Auto-Tune and Fruity Loops, as they are popular in Western African. There is a modality that willingly allows for almost folk like artistry to be born out of digital technologies and creative synthesis. Technology is the most influential force on the popular music trends and hot beats of 2012.