Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilChuck
Rock is dead, and if not will be dead soon. Why? Because its too pompous now, too try hard, too 'intellectual'. Rock has lost touch of what it was about, it was a bad ass genre, played by dirty people for dirty fans. Now too many fans, artists, critics want to intellectualise the music, see who can play the most complex, technical music and the soul has been lost.
I short, fúck you hipsters!
|
If this was the case, then it died in the early to mid-70s with the emergence of progressive rock. There's absolutely nothing wrong with intellectualizing rock music and giving it meaning and substance. One of rock's most defining and important qualities is its eclecticism... It can be both dirty and raw as well as complex and intellectual.