One of the greatest aspects of music is that it is an ever-changing nation, with empires rising and falling constantly. Look at the music of 10, 20, 50 and 100 years ago and while there will inevitably still be fans, most of us will be wondering how we ever listened to some music as a culture.

The age of music streaming has seemingly accelerated this entire process, with genres appearing and effectively disappearing within a few short years. Below are our three top examples of musical styles that have all but gone the way of the dodo.

Dubstep

It feels like only yesterday that the entire world was in love with dubstep, and you couldn’t go to any venue without something by Skrillex pounding out. It was appearing in a number of movies around the start of the 2010s and even got major mentions in high-profile video games such as Saints Row and Borderlands, albeit in a very tongue-in-cheek fashion. The biggest artists were sweeping awards, and it seemed like it was here to stay.

A few short years later, and dubstep has dropped off the map and been relegated in popularity behind many of the other genres it gave birth to. Even the biggest artists like Skrillex have moved with the fashion of the day, shifting to more mainstream EDM and pop influences in their latest releases.

Eurodance

Speaking of electronic genres that have come and gone, let’s look even further back to the 90s and the Eurodance music genre. As the name suggests, Eurodance was the banner name for a wave of electronic dance music being imported from all over Europe. It was the staple of underground dance events and is synonymous with rave culture, to the point that it even dominated some media and became the main point of films like Nowhere. This trend has also spilled over to online casinos, with slot games like The Rave, which is based on a later interpretation of the word, can be found in the libraries of mobile online casinos complete with a pounding Eurodance track as the backing.

Like the 90s, though, Eurodance effectively died out around the turn of the millennium along with the entire culture it spawned, giving way to a dance music scene that instead was drawing heavily from the surging R&B trend.

Disco

As we’re talking dance music, we have to finish off with the one music style that has been declared dead more times than Keith Richards. ‘Gone the way of the dodo’ could easily be replaced with ‘gone the way of disco’ these days, and while there are some die-hard fans still out there, references in popular culture from the last decade or two have largely been at the expense of the genre.

The irony is, however, that despite everything, disco lasted far longer in fashion than pretty much any other kind of modern dance music. Fans will also still happily point out that modern EDM owes almost everything to disco as the genre pioneered so many of the innovations and features that are still used today.

The jury is out on how long current EDM trends are going to last, although if electro-swing and the many generations of ska are anything to go by, we can be assured that there will always be a place somewhere on the Internet for every genre you can imagine.