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Post by goodbants on Oct 13, 2020 2:45:38 GMT 10
It just stopped being innovative. It’s not the “music of the youth” anymore because a lot of teenagers now see it as something their parents listen to. It’s not the answer most people like to hear, but it’s the truth. Whether or not it can be revived, I don’t know. It would have to have a major makeover and maybe incorporate some elements of modern music in it to make it sound new. I’d love to see a new era of rock.
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Post by John Titor on Oct 13, 2020 3:24:06 GMT 10
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Post by SharksFan99 on Oct 13, 2020 9:36:38 GMT 10
I've thought about this a lot as a huge rock fan myself. My theory is that it died out mainly because it failed to innovate and keep up with what else was happening in music, I don't think it was a coincidence that rock gradually faded away as electropop gained further momentum towards the end of the 2000s. Electropop really took the world by storm and changed the entire trajectory of music, even rap artists like Eminem and Usher had to switch to incorporating elements of electropop in their music in order to stay relevant. If you listen to many of the rock songs that were popular in 2008 and 2009, many of them sound incredibly safe and generic, think songs such as "Stop and Stare", "Pictures of You", "Use Somebody" etc. The genre as a whole had lost the edginess/rebellious that had helped to make it popular in the first place and that really worked against it when electropop was starting to take the mantle of being the dominant genre on the charts.
It is surprising how relatively quickly rock fell by the wayside though. I can remember rock still being hugely popular during 2008 and even during the first-half of 2009, Kings of Leon and Nickelback were some of the biggest names in music. By the start of 2011, however, it had mostly disappeared.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2020 10:21:28 GMT 10
Boy, if I had a nickel for every time this thread was made. My two cents (the same two cents I have always given): popedia.boards.net/post/56950/threadShort answer: corporatism has changed the perception of rock music from a genre about raw youth rebellion and creative experimentation into a genre populated and enjoyed by good boys and girls with manufactured looks and personas. We went from this: To this: In other words, rock music became a victim of its own success - it went too mainstream.
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Post by goodbants on Oct 13, 2020 12:09:38 GMT 10
Yeah, him and YUNGBLUD are some of the only popular ones in the game. That song is alright. It sounds like it could’ve come out in the 2000s. Nothing new, really.
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Post by Telso on Oct 13, 2020 20:56:46 GMT 10
Boy, if I had a nickel for every time this thread was made. My two cents (the same two cents I have always given): popedia.boards.net/post/56950/threadShort answer: corporatism has changed the perception of rock music from a genre about raw youth rebellion and creative experimentation into a genre populated and enjoyed by good boys and girls with manufactured looks and personas. Definitely not the main reason though. Sell-outing and corporatism in rock music has always been a thing, regardless of the era. Once something sells a lot, you're guaranteed people are gonna hop immediately on that for the bucks. Here's a little preview of the corporate world of rock music: Meet the awful Pat Boone aping the blazing sound of rock & roll to sell to white audiences because many distributors definitely didn't like the thought of selling black artists: The Buckinghams, trying to pretend to be a British Invasion band even though they're from the very British city of Chicago: Many rock artists were turning their sound to disco in the late 1970s: Or similarly a once hard rock act turned syrupy soft rock to enjoy some more radio airplay: Probably the most infamous example of corporate rock: a once rebellious acid rock band turned fully yuppie rock: And yet despite this decades long history of rock embracing capitalism, the genre still persisted throughout time anyway.
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