What killed rock? Was it grunge? Butt rock? Boring 2000s alt-rock? Imagine Dragons/Coldplay """rock"""?
>>130113334people were already saying that rock was dead by the time Led Zeppelin came onto the scene, according to purists, rock really only existed from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s
>>130113334It was literally the Beatles. They were squares.
>>130113342Zeppelin were the peak of rock because they were both one of the most popular and one of the most progressive bands at the time. That kind of thing stopped happening in the 80s, and gradually rock faded out of mainstream popularity entirely.
>>130113334It was streaming. Rock audiences aren’t stupid cattle like Country audiences who will just listen to whatever brainless garbage the industry pushes. The rock audience figured out pretty early that streaming means the end of listening to the garbage you don’t want to hear. Since there’s no consensus hits, it’s hard to find a playlist that’s mass appeal. Also, Rock is fairly broad. There’s people who like the hard rock/fuzzy/metal stuff and there’s those who like the less abrasive stuff. There’s very little overlap.
Music is just a cycle is normal for rock to have died. While rock was on their peak a lot of artist explored different genres on it too. Gothic, dark, latin, pop, alt, etc. People just got tired of it and thats all. This happends with all the genres in music an example could be corridos tumbados, orchestral ballads, and even rap.
>>130113334I wonder what possesses people to parrot music journalism cliches like they're holy gospel. Especially on a site like this.
>>130114221it's called "bait"
>>130113334It was badgers
>>130113334Every past genre eventually ran out of steam. Rock is no exception.There are only so many ways you can make amped guitar music work and much of it has been covered.It doesn't help that there were other factors too, but I think those are overstated.
>>130113334>What killed rock?rock was always too soft, all the real ones went over to metal.Metal killed rock.
it was a host of things, the failure to innovate after grunge, the rise of poptimism, the consolidation of radio stations who preferred shitty pop music over rock, the 1996 telecommunications act, the 2008 economic crash, the obama era woke zeitgeist were white men arent allowed to be successful cause something something equity.
>>130113334Nickelback and their legions of soundalikes were the killing blow to rock as the dominant genre. Zoomers don't realize how fucking overplayed that garbage was on the radio for a whole decade, at a time when we couldn't just all self-sort into our own algorithmic bubbles on Spotify and ignore the mainstream. And yes, it was garbage, we didn't need to be "psyopped" into thinking drivel like Rockstar, Lips of an Angel, Hate My Life, Halfway Gone, etc. was anything other than total slop, especially when they had been played for the 500th time that week. At the same time, hip-hop had emerged from the shiny suit era and had genius-level talent like Kanye, Pharrell, OutKast, etc. pushing their genre into exciting new sounds while all mainstream rock could do anymore was flaccid imitations of Pearl Jam with the most irritating vocalists they could find.
>>130114685Metal is pure fag music.
It was purposely killed by the industry
>>130113334Nothing it is still alive just less skilled. Thats all.>>130113369I was a huge Led Zep fan in middle school. And I disagree now that I know more about music. Even vs its contemporaries Led Zep wasnt that amazing, its a great band but its too bluesy. Blues gets boring rather quick.I prefer Yes, Genesis, etc now. They got a much more beautiful melody going on.
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>>130113342I mean for the rock and roll variety that is kind of true.
>>130113334This is the real answer: baby boomers killed rock starting in the late 90s. There were no other factors or actors involved.No, it didn't fall out of favor organically. No, it wasn't the internet, illegal downloading, or the decline of the record industry. It was because boomers couldn't stand seeing the next generation have something they had no place in.They're a generation of locusts who snatched it away from millennials out of spite.
>>130113362Cope Mike
>>130114194do people have a hunger for it to return? i feel like it's generally fragmented now since technology is what it currently is at this point. but i would like to see a return to form. without sounding racist, I wanna see a badass luminary making rock music. but i just wanna see someone young or even a young unc taking the lead, being a frontman to some hard unapologetic rock-music.
>>130113334it was the red hot chili peppers playing the same gay shit as any other 3 doors down and hoobastank on the radio when they were one of the few bands left that actually know how to rock
It stopped being fun party music and became boring whiny shit for virgins to listen to alone in their bedroomsSame thing happening to hiphop
>>130113334Soundcloud Rap
>>130113334Compare those chads to the twee rock twats of the 21st century
>>130113334it was inferior to rap
>>130121315Yeah people only want party music, that's why the dark side of the moon was an unsuccessful flop
Let me put it this way...Each genre lives through its ability to come up with new sounds.After grunge faded out (94-95), the new bands came up only with retro recipes of doing rock (Primal Scream, White Stripes, Strokes).That tells you something about how much potential for new sounds rock still had in the mid-90s.
>>130116196>genius level>hip hop
>>130125935>ignores nu metal, emo, post hardcore
>>130125935>retro recipes of doing rock>Primal ScreamDid you even listen to screamadelica or xtrmntr?
>>130113334The fucking awful production and mastering on 00s rock albums (especially landfill indie) didn't help
>>130113362They were commies. That faggot Lennon coming over here preaching and protesting.
