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We could just as easily ask: is blues dead? Is reggae dead? It's just hard to come up with original ideas in a genre that has been around for so long and young people start looking for something that they find more appealing. But there's one thing I've noticed watching cover bands in bars: when they started playing rock & roll, everybody started dancing, even young folks who had never heard of Chuck Berry. | |
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It's as dead as disco was in 1980. | |
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Rock n roll is an offspring of the blues, and what was the blues generally about? My woman or man left me, I drank too much and got in a fight, I killed a man, a storm came and my town flooded, etc. Not all blues songs were about that, but the title "blues" itself is about sadness & suffering.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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All music is dead, no creativity or good music anymore. | |
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The genre itself is still literally alive but on a mainstream level, it has been replaced by rap/hip hop. I see nothing wrong with hip hop being the most dominant genre, however I wish on a mainstream level we had some better hip hop to listen to and rock was only supplanted rather than replaced for variety's sake. Rock isn't dead, the charts are. No, not because rock itself is practically non-existent on them but because of the nature of the charts these days. | |
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This is what the local station is playing - all 90s or 2000s. Nothing new. They used to play new shit, like when all of these songs were new, they were adding them to the mix. | |
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But rock is not really popular with modern Top 40 listeners at all, fun or no fun. Unless you count Maroon 5 as rock n roll. The closest in sound to rock music that is popular now with mainstream audiences would be country. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Keep Calm & Listen To Prince | |
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That's the point, Rock still exists on a local "underground" level but it isn't popular with the mainstream audiences any more... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Rest in Peace Bettie Boo. See u soon. | |
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Cinny said:
Haha time flies! | |
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Polka & Renaissance Faire style ancient music exists on an underground level too.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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When someone says a culture or artform is dead, they don't mean it literally doesn't exist anymore. What they mean is it's not popular, or financially viable. It's no longer the blood in the veins of the dominant culture. In the past, when people said rock is dead, they generally meant the music had become stagnant or regressive. And usually a new group of musicians would come along and breath new life into it. But now rock is just not selling or appealing to the young generation. It's probably rock's rebellious attitude comes off as fake or wrongheaded to millennials and generation z who really want to be part of the establishment. They want to change it from within, not to give it the finger. You might as well ask why the blues, or bluegrass is no longer popular. It's probably because the music is really old. It had its time to shine and now something else has to take it over. I have no doubt in five or ten years rap and pop will be in the same position.
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lrn36 said: When someone says a culture or artform is dead, they don't mean it literally doesn't exist anymore. What they mean is it's not popular, or financially viable. It's no longer the blood in the veins of the dominant culture. In the past, when people said rock is dead, they generally meant the music had become stagnant or regressive. And usually a new group of musicians would come along and breath new life into it. But now rock is just not selling or appealing to the young generation. It's probably rock's rebellious attitude comes off as fake or wrongheaded to millennials and generation z who really want to be part of the establishment. They want to change it from within, not to give it the finger. You might as well ask why the blues, or bluegrass is no longer popular. It's probably because the music is really old. It had its time to shine and now something else has to take it over. I have no doubt in five or ten years rap and pop will be in the same position.
Pop music feels borderline irrelevant these days. People still buy it and listen to it because that's the primary thing promoted to them but it doesn't dominate the mainstream like it once did. Rappers may generally take up a less positions on the charts but are more talked about than pop artists now. It's strange; seems like we're in a transitional period for the mainstream scene. | |
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I predict this will be the next popular form of music for the "mainstream..." "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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