The Death of Rock'n'Roll

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>>73666959
>Sure, there's a vibrant underground teeming with bands making music year after year, but none of it has ever enjoyed the same airplay other bands did decades earlier.
good, fuck the radio and major labels.
the death of corporate rock was the best thing to ever happen to the genre.

>>73667141

this, fuck commercialising music.

>>73666959
rap and electro pop are much easier and therefore much cheaper to create, which means they're a more profitable investment for big record companies. And since the only way to get mainstream is to get signed by them, rock can't get mainstream anymore

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>>73666959

Thank grohl and the white stripes. They put all the nails in the coffin. Kind of fucked how a guy from a band that brought rock music back to life, started the band that killed it.

Someone will have to totally change the game like Cobain did when Nirvana killed hair bands.

>>73668631
Also, teenage girls buy more vapid music.

Guys buy less music and, when they do, buy stuff made decades ago.

>>73666959
rock is usually made by bands

keeping a band together is hard

it's risky to invest time and money into a music project that might fall apart before becoming profitable

it's also harder to control a music project that's made of several people.

so if you're a big record company, you're gonna want to give record deals to solo artists whom you can pair up with whatever writers/producers you want, only pay royalties to the one guy you signed up, and only pay commission fees to the producers/songwriters etc... who make their material, it's easier to keep track of and easier to negotiate in your favor than when you're doing business with four or five different guys at once.

Who cares what's mainstream

Does anyone here honestly say "oh well, I guess since Rock isn't topping charts anymore I have to listen to Rap"

>>73666959
>Cobain died and suddeny Rock'n'Roll went with him.
This is not true, but every Gen Z idiot keeps shoving this narrative because they weren't around at the time.

>>73668710
inaccurate and irrelevant

girls buy music for vapid reasons
boys buy music for autistic reasons

>>73668738
yeah it took Manson to really run the whole rock star phenomenon into the ground by creating a standard of trashiness that no other mainstream rocker managed to live up to when they still had the chance. So in the mid-2000s mainstream rockers tried to fall back on safer, more family-friendly imagery to appeal to teens (or just failed to reach Manson's level) but it soon turned out that their audience outgrew them too fast to secure a strong following, and they fell into irrelevance as their audience moved on to older or less mainstream bands, or simply away from rock altogether.

Mainstream rock just kind of ran out of charismatic showmen after Manson set a new standard that even he failed to uphold.

>>73668745
In reality they don't buy music but use spotify