Is Rock music dead ?

Oooo....someone touch a nerve? Do actually read what I said though and reply to what I said rather than reply to an imaginary conversation in your head. Othrwise communication is impossible

 

oh look. He’s mad.

 

I do think there is definitely a difference between now and say, 2005 though.

Sure the Hoffman boomers might not have been into the Killers or My Chemical Romance, but like you said, they made obvious rock music and were mainstream.

Such a thing doesn't exist anymore, the youth aren't propelling any acts that aren't rap, rap adjacent, or electro pop for the most part (and in Latin America, reggaeton).

The closest mainstream thing to rock right now would probably be the Jonas Brothers, but that is pushing it.

 

might as well revive this thread with some actual data metrics: Favorite music genres among consumers by age group in the U.S. 2018 | Statista

 

Is Soundtrack music dead
Is Show Music/Musical music dead

 

I wonder if you consolidated Rock, Indie/Alternative, Rock and Roll, Singer/Songwriter, and Country (which is mostly rock performances with twang accents and token steel or fiddle) into one listening block, how popular would it be?

 

Is the Dead rock music?

 

What a joke! Some of these aren’t even genres at all or, at least, genres defined by the status quo.

 

Rock's decline in popularity is even more of a liability to it as an art form because Rock pretty much has to exist as a dominant mass-marketed phenomenon. There's really not much to it, otherwise.

 

As a dominant genre? Yes. As a genre? No. But in serious decline.

I say, who cares? It's had a nearly 70-year run ... nobody expected that!

Rock is dead ... long live rock!!

 

Maybe, but it will benefit from the massive roots music revival underway and explosion in guitar sales. Maybe even some of the kids can wield their genre scalpels and create new genres of the same thing but call it new and different.

 

Who cares if we’ve been usurped? Why should today’s kids like what we did? I’m handing them the keys to the kingdom.

Let’s just enjoy our era whilst there’s breath left in our bodies...Rock On!

 

Still huge in much of the world.

 

That's ok, but just ok. Harold Lloyd though, he's brilliant and will be remembered long after this tune is forgotten.

 

I'm not sure why rock music would benefit from a "roots music" revival unless people have embraced an extremely nominal and shallow form of "roots," haha.

I think it's fine that rock is in decline, the form was denied a natural death at the end of the 60s and everything since has been the musical equivalent of balkanization with a personal-branding tinge for naïve teenagers.

 

It lists “Rock Music ” and “Rock and Roll” as two separate genres.
No credibility.
Next...

 

Nope- It's just taking a much needed breather.

 

I had the Dirty Thrills blasting in the car today. Sounded alive to me.

 

Rock is dead... Long Live Rock!

 

It will never die as long as you keep it alive in your heart.

Heh, that's my incredibly cheesy non-answer.

 

As long as I am listening to rock music, it's not dead to me. As for what everyone else is listening to, who cares. They can listen to what they like and if I happen to hear some of it and like it, more power to me.

 

Well, when the biggest arena rock acts to emerge from the last 20 years have been Nickelback and and Coldplay you at least have to be a little concerned.

 

Five Finger Death Punch sells out large sized venues in interior (flyover) America.

 

I rarely hear new rock music in public, for what it's worth. As a continuing art form, it seems dead to me.

 

At the beginning of the 1960s folks thought rock and roll was dead.

It may well be that rock just has to die to be reborn.

My guess is when the classic rock stranglehold monopoly releases its death grip there will be more waves of great new rock.