Rock Is Dead

[Wombi]

It's not a question, I think it's plain to see/hear for all. It's been dead for a couple of years but rockists are still in denial. Hip-Hop, Electronica, R&B and Pop are thriving. It's no surprise that those who say "Modern music is bad" are rock fans because: Rock is dead. Even so called "saviours" of Rock are turning to other genres for help because: rock is dead. The old farts who used to make okay Rock records (Dylan, Springsteen, Rush etc) are now releasing abysmal albums all because: Rock is dead.


ROCK IS DEAD
get used to it

[Guest]

Yeah that's all well and good but I loooooooooove your avatar.

[paladisiac]

the shock is all in your head
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[Borve Baunehoj]

I'll reinvent scientist rock

[GeevyDallas]

When Paul Weller starts trying to incorporate 'electronic influences' into an album,you know rock is dead.

[19loveless91]

Art can't "die".

Unless you're looking at it like you look at fashion. "Ugh this is so 1978"

[RoundTheBend]

rock is alive and well. Yes electronic music is out there, but it is like saying classical music or what people call "art music" since classical is actually referring to a specific time in "art music" is dead. Every major and minor city in the world has a concert hall dedicated to what most people would call "classical music", but is it dead... far from it.

"Rock" music is also a very broad term. There is a huge movement in hardcore, indie, stoner rock that is still very much alive and well.

If you are talking about the mainstream... Coldplay and Muse, I would consider a form of "rock" and they are still selling platinum records.... dead? I don't think so....

Now what is influencing culture the most right now... I would agree it is mostly hip-hop, electronic music, etc. But to say rock is dead is a little to broad to be accepted as truth. As a college "girl", you should realize there are no definitives, unless it can universally be accepted, which is impossible.

[ButterThumbz]

[ButterThumbz]

People been saying this since the sixties.


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[ColumnatedRuins]

no, of course not. is this even serious?

granted my favorite records from the past two years are not rock albums, but to make sweeping generalizations about something a huge as a musical genre is silly. particularly a beginning and an end, which are never clear at the time.