is rock going to be an entirely unpopular genre by the mid 2020's

I work at Subway, and The Strokes are on the modern pop radio station we have on at least 5 times a day. My stoner friend who listens almost exclusively to trap, knows and enjoys them. Arctic Monkeys have ruled tumblr since late 2013 when AM came out; good luck finding a teenage normie white girl that doesn't like them. And how can Oasis NOT be considered culturally relevant: wonderwall is a staple of beginning guitar. The white stripes are HUGE. Seven nation army is definitely their biggest hit, but that doesnt mean they didnt have any others; most people know fell in love with a girl and icky thump. And we are gonna be friends has been inescapable for the past decade. It was in the opening credits for a movie that grossed $40 million. And Radiohead becoming electronic, doesnt change the fact that they are first and foremost a rock band. Their most acclaimed album happens to be a pure rock record. And just because /mu/ and pitchfork hate them, it doesn't change the fact that Tool is MASSIVELY acclaimed. Look at their RYM page. Same for the black keys. Plus, Arcade Fire. ARCADE FIRE. They headline every festival they attend, and every one of their albums has been critically acclaimed. And yes, I know this is pasta. But I like refuting it every time I see it.

>>73680606

this better be 100 percent shitpost or i'll have to do what your dad was supposed to do and beat you with a crowbar senselessly

>>73680635
What? Beat someone for being a sensible, decent person with good taste?

>>73680581
Absolutely not, it is still well anchored in today's society and recognized as such
It's far from dying despite what a few clueless fucks might spout on this board

>>73680581
>is rock going to be an entirely unpopular genre by the mid 1970's
>is rock going to be an entirely unpopular genre by the mid 1980's
>is rock going to be an entirely unpopular genre by the mid 1990's
>is rock going to be an entirely unpopular genre by the mid 1990's
>is rock going to be an entirely unpopular genre by the mid 2000's
>is rock going to be an entirely unpopular genre by the mid 2010's
kys

The second summer of love in '88 was the most important era in modern European music culture as it took the American based house and techno and fused it with European attitudes, prowess and compositional excellence to forefront the run of the music that followed on through the rave era, the 90s progression of techno, house, and of course breakbeat hardcore, jungle and all the genres and fusions that followed

Dance music of the 1990s largely rejected the simple, jovial, hedonistic approach to body movement that had ruled since James Brown invented funk music in the 1960s. Disco, techno and house had simply imported new technologies (both for rhythm and arrangements) into the paradigm of funk. The 1990s continued that process, one of the most important ideas to come out of Britain was jungle or drum & bass, a syncopated, polyrhythmic and frantic variant of house, a fusion of hip-hop and techno that relied on extremely fast drum-machines, epileptic breakbeats and huge bass lines.

Few genres of popular music underwent so many changes and reached such ambitious heights as jungle did. Within a few years, jungle musicians were already composing abstract and ambient pieces, integrating breakbeats with pop vocals, adopting jazz improvisation Thanks to ever more intricate beats and to free structures borrowed from jazz, jungle music rapidly became the foundation for a new kind of avantgarde music, pursued by the most austere of the genre's visionaries

It both cemented the death of and proved without doubt that outside of America, the dark ages of rock were dead and the white mans attempts at stealing the great music of the blacks was merely a passing fad and the progression of funk, soul and rhythm and blues, and via proxy, the music of Jamaica and the influence of hip hop on dance music and indeed hip hop itself showed that electronic music was the natural progression and the rock of the 60s and 70s was a waste of time and a step backwards in music progression

>>73680581
Rock is as dead as blues and jazz.

*farts*

>>73681449
Maybe go out sometimes

40s - jazz
50s - jazz
60s - jazz and rock
70s - funk, disco, synthpop, punk
80s - hip hop, techno, house, metal
90s - hip hop, breaks, techno
00s - hip hop, garage
10s - hip hop, grime

*pop continued throughout all

>>73681472
you can't be delusional enough to think that synthpop, punk, techno, breaks or garage were at any point bigger than rock

>>73681495
Define "bigger". And punk is rock.

They are the most relevant genres at each time though. Just because the normies, tweens and plebs were too dumb to turn off the payola-led radio doesn't make rock bigger.

Its a poptamist thinks popularity equals quality thread

You hear that mumble trap shit, thats a fad, if it became unpopular tomorrow it would sound dated as fuck.

Personally i have come to the theory that rap has reached its final endpoint, a mumbling nigger spouting gibberish over a simplistic trap beat.

What do you even do now. There is nowhere to go. Once this shit dies out the lyrical boom bap niggers are going to have their revenge.

As for why rock is unpopular, blame streaming.

Rock was based on albums not singles.

Another thing, i found reading an article was that some band said that their manager is more concerned with them getting twitter followers than their music.

On the surface it seems dumb but, yeah, the more internet famous you are the more people know you, the more people stream your shit.

Like you have to shitpost yourself into memeifcation

You know, why cant there be a hair metal revival, it needs to be updated, it would be perfect for this shit time, hair metal is like the only 80's thing that has never been revivied.
Just make pop metal, be outrageous on the internet, make viral video, and spam catchy pop metal singles.

Maybe add in a new element, hair metal and autotune.

Its going to piss off a lot of people who will click on your shit like idiots

>>73681530
>Just make pop metal, be outrageous on the internet, make viral video, and spam catchy pop metal singles.
falling in reverse already have that market covered

>>73681530
>hair metal is like the only 80's thing that has never been revivied
For good reason

Wrong. It's just taking a backseat at the moment. Hip-hop is having it's moment, but it's all digital and made off of software.

There'll be an artist who incorporates the visceral feeling of rock music with today's production technology and that'll be rock's next chapter. The old heads will hate it, call it selling out, but it's exactly what rock NEEDS to do. Look AROUND instead of looking back. Revivalist movements are okay, but not when they try to sound like a band from 1980 in 2017. They need to embrace the technology.

So far the only artists I know who do this well are Sweet Trip and Death Grips, even though they do it radically different ways.

>>73681547
Yeah, even metal heads despise it.
But its actually perfect for this time, you need to dress up like an outrageous character, have meme's made about you, and everyone who says they hate you keeps clicking on your tmz articles about how you got into a fight at a club and threw up on someone

Another problem with rock is that it got too effete, it got too yuppie, it got too faggy, that indie shit, that shit needs to die, that sad boy shit needs to die.

We need like a guy with big hair wailing on the guitar, singing with autotune about how he likes to party every night, surrounded by instagram thots wearing yoga pants.

And you need to piss everyone off.

It's over rocktards, let it go. It's had its day, just like jazz.

The future is electronic.

>>73681601
Battles is another group that incorporates modern tech pretty well.

>>73681613
THIS

you all sound like retards protesting to bring quill and parchment back to the school classroom by using parrot feathers for novelty lls

>>73681609
Gross.
I'd only be happy to see that happen to see the musical reaction it would inspire.

>>73681613
The first synthesizer was invented in 1900 and electronic music is older than rock.
You can find electronic music from the 30's and 50's.

Finally and electric guitar is electronic

>>73681530
>hair metal is like the only 80's thing that has never been revivied
It never really died it's just sort of faded off to it's fanbase, Ratt, Dokken, et.al. are still touring Bonjovi does commercials. I go to Daytona bike week hair/rock/country bands flood in from all over and the venues are full.

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Like seriously, guys, electronic music is the future, skrillex invented it for us all to enjoy

>>73681672
lmao thank you. all these edm pill poppers have shorted their brains that they repeat that "the future is electronic" meme without realizing Terry Riley was making Trance music in the 60s

>>73681688
This is why it will work hair metal was basically pop metal, and the pop metal guys still get big play, it works. It just needs to be update for the internet/streaming age. You could bring it back, piss people off, push cute metal boys that girls will go crazy about.

>>73681613
>>73681627
Keep listening to your trap wiggers

>>73681695
The problem with electronic music is that it used to be the music of the future. They would use it as background instrumentals in movies and tv set in the future.
But electronic music is now music of the present. So it is no longer the music of the future. Maybe thats why it got so bland.

This song was made in 1969 and it influenced the who to make baba o riley but it sounds like some 2deep4u electronic music p4k shit made in 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PNbEfLIEDs

>>73682042
it's still the music of the future
all new music technology is classed as 'electronic' (be it analog or digital), anything which has yet to be invented will also be classed as 'electronic' by rockists

it's rockists who made this happen, by always using 'electronic' as a descriptor for 'that new fangled music that's not real music because it's not guitars'