Can Rock ever again be (truly) culturally relevant?

I'm a diehard rocker, obviously, and I guess my question to you is a simple one - do you think rock music can have the popularity/cultural relevance it had in the 1970s or the alt rock movement had in the 1990s? What would it take?

 

It never lost it's popularity or cultural relevance.

 

It just seems like rock hasn't really been say, as relevant with the youth for example as hip hop has been, since around the early '00s barring maybe one or two exceptions.

 

If you can figure out what it would take to make Big Band music relevant again, the Rock thing should be a piece of cake.

 

Its where the grown up people live.
Aint going anywhere.
If it does, stop the planet...Im getting off.

 

Rock and Roll is here to stay. But it will never again have the cultural relevance or dominate the popular arts as it did in the 60's or '70's.

 

It's "culturally relevant" at my house.

 

Or the popularity/ cultural relevance of the 60's.

I sincerely hope so.........but I doubt it.

 

Maybe...

Rock hasn't shined through since the 1990's/early 2000's, but you can't count it out.

Afterall, it's the genre that survived the blows of discomania.

 

No. Maybe it will be revived by subgroups now and then. But it's generational thing and its generations are dying.

I remember in the 70s there'd be news stories from time to time. "Big bands and swing dancing are comin' back! And the kids love it!" (Cut to nerdy young couples jitterbugging)

 

no

 

What he said

 

No ('nuff said.)

 

No

 

To be relevant you have to do stuff that pisses off your parents.
Since so many current parents and grandparents were rock n rollers back in the day you need to find new ground .......

 

I don't think that rock will ever be the dominant style of pop music again, as it was in the 60s-90s.

But, I don't think rock will ever fade completely away like the other niche musical genres because it's still the dominant style for people playing instruments. Guitar players tend to play rock and plenty of kids still pick up the guitar every year.

 

I'll say no with sincere hopes that time proves me wrong.

Hopefully not too much time...

 

I suspect Big Band music would rattle some nowadays just as much as rock.

 

Somewhat along those lines...
The only way we may possibly see a cultural comeback
is if there is a widespread backlash against electronic/digital.
So it's an outside maybe.. but highly unlikely.

 

In other words... whatever pisses off the majority of SHF members is whatever replaced "Rock".

 

What kind of kid chooses to be lame just to piss of their parents? Surely there is some other way than that.

 

Ever since the late 60's, my personal definition of "rock" music has become increasingly elastic, so for me at least, it is possible. So many of the ever-increasing sub-genres assigned to subtle shades of musical difference ultimately are classified as "rock" in my metadata....

 

not to the counter culture. because it is relevant to the current culture.

 

And nothing blew quite like disco.

 

This ^

However, it seems to me that rock is doing just fine if you go to any of the big music festivals across the country. I'm happy I have so many great artists across all genres to choose from nowadays. It's a great time to be alive as a music fan.