so everyone's gonna argue it to the end of everything unholy, but do many people see the decline in mainstream rock? even underground rock?
i know rock has always seemed to come in waves in America, which inevitably means there are dry periods such as the stagnant period between rockabilly's downfall and psychadelic's rise or the slow death of hair metal into the rise of grunge, but i seriously am starting to see some signs.
1) MEDIA OVERKILL
not to say that they're not doing it to hip-hop or any other popular genre, but due to mtv, myspace, and every other place on the internet, you can pretty much know what Chris Cornell had for breakfast.
2) GUITAR HERO/ROCK BAND
enough said
3) ROCK AS A NOVELTY
#2 partially goes with this one. most of us here have been raised by people who grew up with rock or at least lived in a rock-influenced culture. marketers and industries have finally become successful in selling rebellion. you see somebody like hannah montanna going for the rock cliche which is so generalized today that anyone with an electric guitar can look the part.
4) MUSICIANS
ok, there have always been those artists that have borrowed an older style. but there have been more and more bands that don't just take a page, but a whole chapter from hair metal, jangle pop, or glam rock these days. 80's have especially made a comeback. with bands like wolfmother, white stripes, the hives, hinder, buckcherry, franz ferdinand, the minus 5, the strokes, etc. there's no need to make anything new if people are eating it. this contributes to rock becoming a novelty (#3)
ok, so commercially, when most people think of jazz, what do they hear in their minds? usually so cool west coast, or swing blues standard, which was, basically, the most commercially successful form of jazz. it captured the idea of what most people thought jazz was the best and therefore whenever it's portrayed in modern pop culture, you're more likely to hear benny goodman (chips ahoy!) then charles mingus (what a shame, too).
i'm starting to see rock go the same way.
do i think it's a shame? hell no cuz i don't listen to the radio, but...
anyway, my whole point is BOW DOWN TO YUNG JEEZY N00BZ LOLOLOLOLORZ!!!!!!
but seriously? what do you guys think? is something like this hard to believe?
Django only had one finger,its as big as four cats, and hes got a retractable leg so he can leap up at you better and you know what?He lights up at night, and hes got four ears.Two of them are for listening and the other two are kind of back-up ears,and his claws are as big as cups and for some reason hes got a tremendous fear of stamps and Mrs Doyle was tellin me that hes got magnets on his tail so if youre made out of metal he can attach himself to you,and instead of a mouth its got four arses
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for the 32,445,900th time, ROCK IS DEAD
