Rock And Roll Will Never Die

All depends how you define Rock and Roll I guess…

If you define it in the narrow 50′s style where it originated, then yes it is dead, but like everything else, it has evolved past that narrow definition to encompass a wide range of music that exists today.

@Sasho The Beatles was never a rock and roll band. They were a commercial pop group that turned into a psychedelic experimental band. Rock and roll is more than an overdrive guitar, banging drums and sloppy vocals, it’s a mentality and a message.

The “rock n roll” of today is not rock n roll at all. Calling it rock n roll is like pissing all over rock n roll. It’s even worse than referring to those angry screaming teens as “metal” or those old white guys in funny hats as “blues” or those ridiculous fags with cowoy hats as “country,” when all of this shit is really just commercial mass produced shitty replicas that are nothing like the real thing. It’s a fucking disgrace to real music.

And if anyone’s an idiot, it’s you. My post about rock and roll being dead was a joke, and that’s obvious. No music style is dead, there are always people who listen to it even if it’s completely forgotten by the mainstream. Yes, even ragtime still has fans.

punk killed rock

Punk is a form of rock, and it only gave rock new life.

@Bird A true rockstar doesn’t cling to any of those notions, he just wants to rock the fuck out. Look at a rockstar, do they care about being famous or rich? No, it just happened. Has it changed them? Nope. All they do is rock out, and everything else is just a byproduct. They just do their thing.

And what the hell do sexist ideals have to do with anything? This is about rock n roll, nothing else.

a lot of rockstars use rock as an expression of purely male libido… it becomes about getting lots and lots of girls

I have nothing against the male libido I just don’t think it invented rock

HAHAHA the bro-step bastardization! I’m so using that. :)

@Bird

It’s still an expression, nothing else, and that’s what rock is all about. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the masculine libido is what invented rock. It makes a lot of sense.

Dubstep hasn’t become anything that it wasn’t. Dubstep is still dubstep, and all this shit that the kids call dubstep is something else. It’s edm with some influences from dubstep. It’s still just edm though. Just like beatles wasn’t a raga band just because they were influenced by Ravi Shankar and used a sitar.

I think it’s different with rock because it’s an ethos along with being a style of music. It’s almost a philosophy… it’s focusing on what makes you feel good, taking what’s yours (because you want it), partying hard, live fast, etc etc

I could argue that drugs created rock just as much as the male libido. Both were fuelling forces, but to be the sole progenitor? No way. Whoever invented flipping the bird invented rock.

@Bird “Whoever invented flipping the bird invented rock.”
Fuck yes.
Also, I’m not sure what’s “rock” and what’s “punk,” “metal,” or any other genre anymore, because there’s too many labels, genres, and subgenres for me to make sense of.
My rule is, if it makes me feel FUCKING ALIVE then I’m going to listen to it.
Everything else I don’t really worry about.

There has been such a blending of genres and influences from all over the spectrum that tacking a label of “rock” or “punk” onto something is rarely accurate any more. The internet has opened the world of music up to everyone to the point where anyone can listen to anything and simply attaching a single label to a band is not giving them the credit they are due.

While I agree that labels can be useful because it would be very hard to communicate without them, labelling bands seems silly because that simple label does not convey what the band is all about and limits their exposure due to people who refuse to listen to certain genres.

Like Caitlin says, If it makes you feel FUCKING ALIVE, listen to it!

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Indeed. Genres are never invented, or even really considered by artists, they just do whatever feels right. Magazines, blogs, critics, and scenesters are the ones obsessed with naming it all. Artists couldn’t give a shit.