An enlightening conversation

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>With rock journalism, you’re either in the club or you’re not in the club. That’s it. And the club is what a small number of people in New York and LA decided what the club was. This goes way back, as far as we can remember. A lot of it had to do with what came from the east, which was England. Bands like STYX, Foreigner and Journey, we’re not in the club. We’ve never been in the club. I don’t know that we’re ever going to be in the club. But whose music is still on the radio? You may like Iggy Pop. I don’t care. Go ahead and like him. But his music’s not being played anywhere. You can go right down the list of people who are elevated to the stature of icons in the rock press’ mind, and it’s in direct opposition with what’s been the public’s taste for 40 years. Now, don’t get me wrong, popular taste can be silly and stupid in a microcosm. But when it’s a macrocosm, I think a trend is developing.

https://michaelcavacini.com/2016/09/18/a-conversation-with-dennis-deyoung-former-styx-vocalist/