Is rock music dead?

Rock is deader than dead.

define a genre being dead

If you're a pleb who listens to top 40 music exclusively, sure. But I'll never understand why such people would ever come here, you can just talk to the basic bitches at Abercrombie and Fitch if you wanna discuss the latest Drake song.

i know that, but im saying that got really big around 2010

op means inactive in the mainstream

white stripes

new kids on the block had a bunch of hits

in terms of "genuine rock" i agree
bands after the revival period are more pop rock

Well I wouldn't call that dead. I also don't think its inactive in the mainstream, its still popular among the boomers

Black Keys didn't get big until El Camino though

Not in Japan, regularly in the charts.

grandpa listening to the oldies station aren't as relevant as kids on spotify culturally

how do you think they’ll be remembered?

Dead in the mainstream yeah, which is necessary for rock as a genre to undergo a renaissance to bring it to new heights through innovation brought on by intellectuals rather than commercialists. Same thing happened with jazz.

>That time Dinosaur Jr randomly made it into the top 20 of Japan's charts

>that one time Ween randomly made it into the top 20 of Australia's charts

Yes because I believe memes.
Hip hop is also dead.
Music is dead.
Everyone's dead.
I'm actually a skeleton.

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It means no one is bothering with making a pop caricature of it.
Good.

Now we just have to watch all pop music suffer the same torment of having shitty pop versions of their genre.

Here in the UK, would have probably been Arctic Monkeys around 2005/2006. Although since we've had a few others like Foals, Mumford & Sons, Royal Blood, alt-J that have had some success. Otherwise no real big rock acts of any sort.

What about Tame Impala?
King Gizz apparently made charts too.

agreed, I think rock is bleeding out but not yet dead.
I hope a new upcoming artist can act as the gauze to save its life

We inch closer and closer to the mono-genre every day.

>I think rock is bleeding out
If you think that way about genres you are fucking retarded.
If we're talking genres, all are dying all the time.
It just happens or doesn't.

Personally I am bored with all established genres right now, so I'm thinking music is dead.

Bollocks, we just have people making music. They all sound different. Good thing 2bh.

>If we're talking genres, all are dying all the time.
elaborate.
If something is on a cultural incline, how is it dying?

yeah and jazz died from that. i don’t want that to happen to rock

Oh user. I wish I was as naive as you.

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Meanwhile, meme rap is the glam rock of rap and hip hop.
It's killed trap and underground hip hop.

It's frigid of sex with rock and electronic.
It makes no sense to me.

Jazz isn't dead. It just became its own niche. Not for the masses, just for the interested.
Same with rock. And that's how it should be. Fuck pandering to normies, no good music comes out of that.

If the label ain't working, throw the label away.

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But rock sucks now

glam rock
>dress funny
>sex, drugs, rock n roll
>takes little talent
>just having a good time
meme rap
>dress funny
>sex, drugs, trap beats
>takes no talent
>just having a good time
i see nothing wrong with this

Jazz actually might come back a bit with some niche sounds - mainly ambient edm sounds.
I'm thinking drum and bass, trip hop and things like how DJ Shadow used those sounds.
You can also apply something more rock/shoegaze too.

On the other hand, industrial music seems to be reemerging in a big way and that always seems to trend rockwise.

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Both are shit music.
I've never liked the sounds of either. They just don't work.

But Nirvana and Death Grips - now that works.

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Do you mean big as in being a cultural phenomenon or big as in drawing the most dimes?

Nirvana is arguably the last rock phenomenon whereas U2 has made the most money

what a bummer
sure, as an art, its absolute shit
but that was never the point
that's like saying a bacon cheeseburger will never be a steak

People forget glam rock was originally a response to Reagan, where the line of thought was basically "let's act like faggots to troll the conservative hillbillies." It might very well be reborn soon what with the current year obsession for trannies.

>People forget glam rock was originally a response to Reagan
No.

its funny to think that U2 is in the "legacy band" lineup as far as only playing old shit and charging stupid money for concerts

Wow you're so mysterious and based and cool user

what the fuck are you talking about?
it was just the theatrics of the 70s (judas priest, kiss) mixed with Van Halen's pop-oriented rock

Hip hop in 96 and nu metal were the last phenomenons. Everything's been artificial since and that's not coincidental with the timing of piracy.
Even this meme rap feels forced. Nu metal at least was kinda passed between kids (mainly because the lyrics were kinda funny in papa roach and shit). I don't think hip hop had much after eminem. The importance became "woah look at how much it's selling" rather than " wow something is actually happening" with pop music. Eminem was the last time I remember that happening. I was very young too and I still got that from it.

Fucking clueless.
Glam Rock started in the UK early 70s, acts like Gary Glitter, T-Rex, Roxy Music, Bowie, Slade, Wizzard, etc. Fuck all to do with Reagan.

if you can play an insturment in a rock band you're better off doing country

I bet you think Jane's addiction was like that too.
No, it was just fashion.
Chicks thought it was interesting. By 94 that had died a bit. Only recently has it properly come back a bit, though trannies really want to fuck with it and make it bigger than it actually is.

>acts like kid fucker,...
not an argument

My mate played in a band that got in our country's top 20 though.
It still sells. It's just not a forced meme like meme rap.

>yuh yuh yuh suck her toes doin blow thick ass everyday skrttt
man, they forced that so hard

Tbf, most musicians have been fucking kids. Read up on Lori Mattix

Well they did, because their ad regimes are infesting forums including Yas Forums now. That never happened much before.
I bet metallica is doing a bit better thanks to spam here.

I also used be a kid.

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>bruh imma post a vid on insta of my song in the background while i smoke a fat ass blunt n shiet
if this is what kills rock, maybe it doesn't deserve to live

Yes. WAAF just closed down in boston

Unironically limp bizkit. Maybe that explains the end of rock

europe?
in america there's been a big shift where rock has disappeared and country absorbed much of it (in rural white places)

the only life rock has left is through rap
unless we have a beastie boys using prog metal and trap beats, its over

People don't deserve to live. I agree.
It's not just rock, underground hip hop has just vanished since like 2017...
It was getting kinda popular early this decade, then became flooded by trash that became meme rap.

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What is Mac Demarco then?
You're just pushing memes.
Is this a marketing strategy?

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Muse

Nope, it's thriving, tons of new bands literally every month.

Metalcore acts are just now reaching arena levels too. Mainly from word of mouth.

More people lately at gigs too.
Which makes me think the lull was misleading.

whats your top 5 rock band that's come out of the last 5 years?
no rehash dressup parodies like greta van shit

Another thing, I'm always hearing hip hop only listening people that "wow nobody listens to rock anymore".
Is this insecurity or something embedded in that fanbase? Wtf is with that?
In rock scenes they embrace hip hop into sets and shit. In hip hop scenes it's a literal "look muh dick bigga than ur dick" mentality. It's fucking retarded.

I was talking to my sister the other day and she randomly commented on that shit when I talked about going to a gig. It was fucking weird.