Five Fearless Predictions For 2008

Posted Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:51pm PST by Rob O'Connor in List Of The Day
Most predictions are wrong. Just look at those pathetic weatherpeople! But with a little foresight, some psychic power and gobs of superior intelligence, the future can be determined ahead of schedule. I won't bore you with the complicated math used to discover these sureshot trends. But it took a lot of integers to get where we're going. But as sure as people will still be wearing clothes come next December, these five trends are going to be all the rage before 2008 rings out.

 

Choir Music Will Regain Lost Popularity

Yes, after years of losing sales to Hip-Hop, Nu-Metal and Emo, Choir Music will regain the stunning popularity it once enjoyed in the Middle Ages. Bald people will receive recording contracts and wrinkly, horribly old people will suddenly be seen on television during prime time and it won't be because they've fallen and can't get up. They'll be singing.

 

The Internet Will Be Over

Every fad must eventually fade and this one's gone on long enough. Sure, it seemed kind of cool for a while, but the CB Radio industry is poised to make a comeback and it will be at the expense of this transitional computer media that despite its colorful appearance isn't really catching on as well as once hoped.

 

The Return Of Menudo

The world clearly longs for the days when musical stars were REAL and were replaced when they got too old to function. Menudo were once the most important musical group in the history of music. They lost their pre-eminence in a series of backroom political maneuvers that left the world bitter and confused and susceptible to the likes of Limp Bizkit. This will be the year that Menudo rightfully return to the top of the pile.

 

Groups With Guitars Will Finally Be On The Way Out 

A great prophet once advised the Beatles that guitars were passé. Turns out he was right, just forty-something years ahead of his time. However, it won't happen without a fight and some radical changes in International Law. For the good of the moral fiber of the United States, its allies and even some countries that don't like us very much, guitars will be OUTLAWED. The bands Rush and Styx will join forces to combat this movement, but will be rightfully ignored.

 

Ted Nugent Will Record An Award-Winning Album Of Jazz Standards

Ted Nugent has always been one of our most sensitive rockers who aims to please. How better than by giving the world his interpretations of the finest Jazz Artists the world has ever known? From Louie Armstrong to Barry Manilow, Billie Holiday to Celine Dion, the Nuge will deliver an album that will be bought and enjoyed by several generations of music lovers. What a Wonderful World? Indeed!

39 Comments

1. manotubes -
Menudo. Ted Nugent. Me thinks you are onto something. Anything is possible now. Perhaps Jamie Lynn Spears will give birth to a white fawn, a sure sign of the end of the world. Some Aryan cultures, Indian too, believe the birth of a white fawn heralds an age of Aquarius, happiness and peace will abound, Marilyn McCoo will join with Kenny G, the White Stipes and Nas to deliver a brave new world. And to think..it all began here. With Rob.

2. Yahoo! Music User -
and it will all end with Manotubes! Together we control the universe.

Rob

3. John T -
What a bunch of poorly made up garbage....please!

4. Yahoo! Music User -
John T ...please go away. Your bad vibes are bringing me down. Putz.

5. mackare@sbcglobal.net -
Go drink a large bottle of medicine and down a hand-full of pills.

6. Yahoo! Music User -
I agree articles this like are what's killing music. Absolutely! And it took a RUSH fan to point this out! How perfect.

7. Homer -
I don't like real music and would rather hear fake music.

8. Yahoo! Music User -
How does noise and profanity rate as 'music'
garbage a better term.

9. Gene Hallway -
Everyone is so relaxed,
Take it all with a grain of salt please.

Get out and see the world.
Budweiser is bad beer.

10. Yahoo! Music User -
Apparently the only irony some people know anything about is the metal in their head.

11. -
Groups with guitar will be on thier way out???
I'd have to disagree. I think kids hear music and want to learn how to play everyday. Even video game kids are getting turned onto Rock due to Rockband and Guitar Heroes. I would bet the house your wrong on this one. Sorry bud.

12. -
wow that article was a waste of time

13. sha_noy -
it really and truely is not that serious people. music is music and this article in case you didn't realize was just a joke

14. Yahoo! Music User -
Wow, people...this article was written as a JOKE! Yeah, a pretty lame one, but still not meant to be taken seriously.

15. bartholomew c -
Rush Rules

16. fxdwg6921 -
the end of guitars? great more people on stage with a tape record playing while they dance and pose... I dont think so...go back to writing about things you know, like interpretive dance

17. Patrick JS -
What a waste of time this article was

18. zach s -
yea i play bass too and guitar will never be ruled out. The though of eddie van alen being forgotten is a sign of the apocalypse.

19. collegekid072005 -
What about Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey come back? Who wrote this crap?

20. Yahoo! Music User -
I hear ya Zach.....Eddie, Eric, Teddy, Carlos, and a ton more will probably go down with amps cranked to the max just to drown out the rap garbage thats passing for music
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