Seriously, for the past 20 years people have been promoting a bunch of soft boy shit that is supposed to be "rock music" but is actually soft and weak as fuck. I blame it on The Strokes, they popularized "indie rock" in the 00s and started shifting the zeitgeist away from heavy guitars and distortion and towards these subtle post-punk inspired riffs. Then in the 2010s, everything went to god damned shit. "Indie pop" became a thing and you have faggots like Mac DeMarco and Tame Impala who are meant to be the "face of rock" in the 10s but don't make anything that even resembles rock music, they just happen to use guitars and have an "indie aesthetic" so people think it's rock.
What happened? Will rock ever move away from this softboy shit and start going back to heavy, aggressive sounds like it was in the 90s?
You do know there’s still heavy music being made right? It’s just not the face of rock, which it never was. The only time heavy rock was mainstream was Metallica
Ian Russell
Maybe when people get tired of rap.
Cooper Baker
>Will rock ever move away from this softboy shit and start going back to heavy, aggressive sounds like it was in the 90s? Hopefully not so it finally fucking dies and we can stop talking about this shitty genre.
Chase Phillips
I agree with this. So many lame bands with no distortion. It's part of why rock is dead, its like people forgot that drop D is a thing.
Joshua Edwards
Have you heard of the Voidz?
Wyatt Sanders
What can you do about it honestly. Not many men into rock are masculine enough to be in a rock band anymore. The real men left to rap, metal, and country.
Zachary Anderson
That's objectively wrong though. The big rock bands of the 90s were all heavy. Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam. Later on you had nu metal which was in its day (late 90s-2001ish) the most popular subgenre of rock/metal. All of these bands made some soft and poppy songs, but they also made heavy and noisy songs which ended up being some of their biggest hits.
So what changed? Why did the tastes change sometime in the early 00s towards most people wanting their rock music to be soft as shit "indie" crap?
Jonathan Sanders
>Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam That's pop rock. Not very heavy. >nu metal Not heavy.
