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> Whatever Hendrix was, he was the only performer capable of reconciling the broken, racially-charged, and dichotomized state of rock ’n’ roll. I guess the aut
by vanderZwan 6y ago
> Whatever Hendrix was, he was the only performer capable of reconciling the broken, racially-charged, and dichotomized state of rock ’n’ roll.
I guess the author forgot for a moment who Prince was when they wrote that sentence
- mixmastamyk 6y agoBB King managed to stay somewhat relevant into the aughts as well, however these examples are quite the exception.
- vanderZwan 6y agoFor sure, I just found it a bit silly to single out one artist as a lost savior when other musical geniuses came in to fill that gap and didn't manage to "fix" things either. As much as I agree with the idea that Hendrix' would have given us so much more if he had lived, I doubt he would have been able to single-handedly stop the music industry from pushing their own (segregated) pop music narrative everyone's throat. Systemic problems need to be solved at that systemic level.