The Rise, Transformation, and Future of Amapiano briefly explained.
Amapiano has grown into one of South Africa’s most popular sounds, blending unique beats and rhythms that continue to capture audiences locally and globally, while some question its future and how the genre might be dying, let’s delve into the factors that cause that & what is happening.
Amapiano is not dying in the sense that the audience is dropping. The numbers are still increasing in Amapiano, but the mega superstar era seems to be coming to an end because many artists are making it now, and they step over each other’s rise to becoming mega stars. The genre has peaked, and it is unlikely to peak higher than it did in past years.It won’t die. It will remain very high, but one thing could happen that would make it look like it died in the coming years, and that is evolution. Black people aren’t known for keeping one sound the same over and over. Black people are music, so what will start appearing more often is Amapiano crossing over into other genres through experimental sounds that may morph it into something else. Crossovers with Afro beats, kwaito, and hip hop have already begun.With sounds like 3 step coming in, it may never peak where Amapiano once peaked, but Amapiano may combine with it to evolve the sound. It is likely to become something harder to identify as piano, similar to how RnB is difficult to identify nowadays, but the genre will remain, at least in this lifetime.And surprisingly, it continues spreading globally. As normalised as it is in SA, it is still a sound others are learning or getting used to out there.
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