Hello...? Is this thing on..? Oh yes, there we go. Discussion about music? Of course I'd be the one to do that! Don't tell Mike I've taken his role though... View my inferior Discussion Post after the break!
Lets go back a few years, when the fandom (and consequently its music) was new. The influx was small, but steady, even when Alex S. released "Party With Pinkie," the song that inspired me to become a Brony, in September of 2011. It was refreshing to hear a well-mixed, properly produced pony remix back then. I listened to it all day on my iPod, or on my computer while I surfed the web.
This brings us to the state of music in the fandom today. Artists like General Mumble, Eurobeat Brony, The Living Tombstone, Mandopony, and many smaller names supply us with enough music for multiple posts per day on Equestria Daily and Discord's Domain. These people are (mostly) good at what they do, and yet, slowly, the interest seems to be fading away. Brony songs posted on Youtube don't get as many views as they used to. Even "big names" such as Aviators and SimGretina, would get views in the hundreds of thousands, even approaching millions, per song, while newer videos struggle to break 50K. Is it a problem with oversaturation? Is there just TOO much pony music? Or do people feel like their music is getting stale, and they need the same refreshment that "Party with Pinkie" brought to me?
While this may seem the opposite of what is happening, music in the fandom is dying. Because there is so much of it, people don't have time to listen do every song produced by every musician anymore. We already have enough music to fill up Everfree Radio and Celestia Radio's airwaves 24/7, and more is coming out at a rate impossible for mainstream music. Therefore, people spread the same number of views across more songs by more musicians, and the musicians' views slowly drop. Startups will have so few views at the start that they will likely get crowded out by the pre-existing musicians, and give up after creating only a few songs. That being said, what does the future hold for pony music? Perhaps, if a song is unique and outstanding, word of mouth will get out and people will listen to it, but otherwise, only the musicians who are already well known in the fandom, the "pioneers," will survive.
Now it's your turn. What do you think is the state of music in the fandom? Is it dying? Is it steady? Perhaps people just enjoy listening to the older, classic, more established songs we have, or is it more prosperous then ever and my post is completely misguided? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below!
(Special thanks to EggheadDash for the proofreading and editing, I couldn't have done it without him.)
