perhaps a tad controversal but i think inventing the term hardstyle was a mistake, the sound that is now branded hardstyle used to be the harder end of hard trance/tech-trance but giving it its own name has now created a genre with not a great deal of scope and the trademark elements that have now become the base of the sound are very tired.

Im not necesserily saying i think its bad music but i think people are expecting too much from it at the moment, if the sound is going to move forward i think people need to let go of the current hardstyle thing a little and let it change, ive ehard some good tracks recently that sound like there moving forward, trying something differnt i just hate hearing the ones that are moving backwards which in my ears are a lot of them.