What happened to the power ballad and its place in popular music? It was utterly dominant from the late '70s through to the early '90s in AOR, hard rock and glam metal, and even after grunge it comfortably survived in the country and adult contemporary scenes, but in the last 15-20 years it's all but disappeared.
>>128304972Can't have ballads when all women are whores.Don't fight me. You know I'm right.
>>128304972It morphed into professional songwriter slop and pop country music.
>>128304972slow songs aren't allowed to chart anymorethey trigger emotion, you don't want you population getting emotional.rock music was disappeared because it might make you think and get angry, so it had to be killed, too.now all you have are coffee songs.good for increased production and they never question authority or anything else -- look at "radical" Kendrick - his biggest song is about Drake, not social issues, etc
>>128304972Overplayed and done to death.
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The main reason is that the boomers retired from the music industry and Gen X replaced them as record executives so they didn't want to put out ballads because they believed only in being as gross and ironic as possible. In short they didn't evolve out of their 12 year old boy "eww, ballads? that's for girls" phase.
>>128307529Gen X wasn't ironic. That's millennials.Gen X has the rep of being cynical sometimes, but still serious. Not ironic. Even Prince was Gen X. He wrote plenty of love songs. Rock wise, some of those 80s guys were Gen X. Axl Rose wrote ballads. Robert Smith was a diehard romantic.
>>128307588Wait a sec, I'm wrong about Prince. I guess his his were gen x though.
>>128307588one will remember that Gen X were just the kids putting the music out, the corporate suits in the 80s were middle aged boomers like Dave Geffen. Gen X themselves weren't actually in charge of record labels until the 21st century.
>>128307604his fans*
Women cant even cook anymore, they dont deserve a single song
>>128307615A lot of the punks and college rock shit were. DIY ethos. I can't think of many wrote romantic stuff though. Replacements, I guess? They started small, but got bigger.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3iKL6wF-M
>>128307529Lil Nas X being buttfucked by Satan and, like, Cardi B rapping about her pussy smacked of some 50 yo ex-Butthole Surfers fan in a UMG boardroom who still thought Satanism is actually transgressive.
>>128307588Prince was a late boomer, doofus.You're confusing fans with artist.Beatles were pre-boomer, but their fan base was boomer.Prince was late boomer, but he became most popular when gen x was at the prime music-listening ages (14-22 ?)
>>128307719>doofusI already corrected myself.But Gen X weren't ironic. That's 2000s hipster shit. Or this very site even.
>hey guys lets talk about X>ooomer though?>noooo its not oomer its iiimer>heh pshh that not ooomer timeframeKill yourselves today please.
>>128304972Creed kept them going into the early 00s.
>>128304972It's pretentious, even though many are good, they grow too big in the band's catalogue (nothing else matters in Metallica per se) and they've specially reached a point in the 1980s that they became unbearable, every hard rock band with that genetic 1980s sound had to write ballads in order to play on the radio.
Nobody can write kino deff lepard power ballads anymore, theyre lost technology now
>>128304972Beavis and Butt-Head happened. Now the "wuss song" on the album is about being sad instead of about loving a woman.
>>128304972Saccharine love songs or mawkish breakup songs have been replaced by hyper BPDcore mindfuck whoremusic.
>>128304972James blunt, michael buble and bruno.mars have ballads
>>128304972Zoomers hate romance
>>128305368All women were whores back then too
