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> Rowell is quick to note that by “we,” he means people over the age of 25, and that he’s focused on “the hold rock and pop music from the past has on us.” Pop
by t-3 2y ago
> Rowell is quick to note that by “we,” he means people over the age of 25, and that he’s focused on “the hold rock and pop music from the past has on us.”
Pop is timeless almost by definition, and rock music is pretty much dead. Beyond being the general trend, I'd bet one reason rap is ascendant is that it's so damn easy to get started - you don't need to gather up friends and buy instruments, everything can be done on your own with just a phone. Running a sequencer or a synthesizer doesn't require the kind of physical talent and training that playing musical instruments does. You don't need to have a great voice or vocal training to spit bars worth listening to.
- moomin 2y agoThere’s still plenty of new rock music though. Olivia Rodrigo is selling out stadiums, Chappel Roan isn’t far behind and The Crane Wives are still knocking out incredible album after album.
- lukan 2y ago"You don't need to have a great voice or vocal training to spit bars worth listening to." No, you also need something to say, worth listening to, which is increasingly missing to me with modern rap. And a good artist would be a good poet at the same time. Able to play with words and rhytm to get across his message. So yes, rap might be easier to get started with - even before the time of smartphones, you just made the beat with your mouth. But it is still not easy to make a good rap song.
- smrq 2y agoThe "rock is dead" take will never cease to confuse me. As if I can't go out and find several venues to listen to live rock music on any given night in $major_city...
- stavros 2y agoWhat are some prominent new rock artists?
- tandr 2y agoWould, to generalize, heavy metal be considered part of rock genre? If the answer is "yes", then oh boy, does it have quite a stream of new bands...
- stavros 2y agoI don't think so, in my mind heavy metal is pretty distinct. I do agree that that's not dead.
- humanrebar 2y agoDirty Honey, The Black Tones, Greta Van Fleet. It's easy to find more with modern music streaming services.
- eilefsen 2y agoKing Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are both popular and novel.
- westmeal 2y agoLove these dudes
- jjj123 2y agoThe 1975 are huge, and The Dare are getting huge. And there’s a thriving middle class of rock artists: Alvvays, Future Islands, Fontaines DC, MJ Lenderman, Yves Tumor, Alex G all play large if not stadium-sized venues.
- t-3 2y agoYou can find classical orchestras everywhere too, but the earshare of classical music isn't much in the non-musician population (and even that is probably artificially propped up by forced exposure in schools).