The Met Ball was all about the future this year. The celebs came out in force channeling their futuristic vibes and it seems they've voted that everything will be silver in the future.
The Met isn't usually about the music. It’s about the clothes. But we think the futuristic theme gives us a chance to speculate what their clothes say about their musical futures. We pulled out the crystal ball and looked at their outfits to work out what to expect from these nine artists in terms of future releases.
Kanye West
Yeezy’s new album will be seen through new eyes. Think new perspectives, thanks to his new blue contacts with a potential hint of feeling sorry for himself a la The Who’s Behind Blue Eyes.
The denim paired with metallic silver suggests we'll be getting some Four Five Seconds vibes paired with space-born beats. Think Johnny Cash meets Ziggy Stardust as produced by Kanye. The Life Of Pablo threw back to gospel sounds but this will be Yeezy going sky high - not towards God, he's done that. This time he's going to Mars.
Katy Perry
Katy’s next record will be all about finding the key to her heart. They may be hanging around her neck but it's not as simple as simply grabbing them off her. She'll sample Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy and play a chinese empress in a concept album that will marry myth with reality.
It'll be as empowering as Roar and as strong-willed as Dark Horse without the novelty of songs like I Kissed A Girl and Peacock. Throughout the promotion of it, she'll be called out numerous time for cultural appropriation.
Nicki Minaj
If The Pinkprint was Minaj showing us her soft side, then her next record will be her bedroom LP inspired by Madonna’s Bedtime Stories. Full of leather, whips and belts, she'll give us the ferocity of Monster with the sexiness of Feelin’ Myself while making numerous references to Meek Mill’s masculinity.
Minaj was one of the few at the Met Ball who didn't see all silver as the future of everything and her fourth album will read accordingly. It will be dark, her least commercial album but a cult classic nonetheless.
The Weeknd
The Weeknd’s version of the future looks very similar to the present. Don't expect many changes on The Weeknd’s next record, he's not interested in changing a damn thing in the future. In fact he wants to make it as dark and plain as possible.
He might deliver a new version of Can’t Feel My Face or shock us by talking about pussy and weed. Oh wait, does that shock us anymore?
Beyoncé
Beyoncé’s next album is all about her becoming Becky with the good hair. She's wearing her skin, using her teeth as confetti and embodying her in a weird, scientific album that's bitter like lemons not sweet like lemonade. She's fearless on Lemonade but her next one will see her push that aggression, accompanied by the sounds of latex gloves slapping down on her skin.
It'll be debuted in the cinema as a part horror film, part extended music video and Jay Z will look on like this:
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s last album may have been 1989 but the next one will be 2089. Gone are the ‘80s flavoured beats and in their place are glossy, futuristic sounds. She'll be realising the future that bands like Alcazar and Aqua envisioned years ago but with less kitsch and more sass.
Calvin Harris will jump on production duties and the pair will debut the album on a spaceship custom built for a festival stage. It will sound like We Found Love was produced in 2089. The squad will also begin to look more and more like the cast of Star Trek.
Solange
Yep, it's 2016 and we're still waiting on a Solange album. But fear not because her Met dress gives some strong ideas about what to expect from her third record. It'll be sunny but coated in that same sort of frustration you experience while attempting to wrap a present in the wind.
She'll channel aerobics pop of the ‘80s and appropriate the staged clumsiness of Marilyn Monroe but she'll piece it together in a way we haven't seen before. It'll take a while for people to understand what she's doing but they'll get it eventually.
Rita Ora
This is the moment. Rita Ora will finally make her triumphant bird song that every great artist must have in their collection. Nelly Furtado’s I'm Like A Bird, The Beatles’ Blackbird, Kelly Clarkson’s Breakaway, the list is amazing and endless but in 2016 it does not feature Ora. That will finally change with an anthem about taking your ashed wings and turning them to silver.
She'll fly on a silver eagle in the video clip and it will be both euphoric and dreadful. The album won't be much to rage about but she will now have a song about birds and that's all that really matters at the end of the day.
ZAYN
Zayn’s debut album may have been an intimate, after-dark affair but he'll be done with that once he gets to album number two. He's got a worldwide number one single now and he's feeling stronger, like an armour-clad soldier.
On #ZAYN2, as fans will name it before its release, he'll take explicit swipes at One Direction and will be prepared for the backlash. He's wearing armour now and nothing will deter him from going to war.
Words by the interns' Sam Murphy
