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Rock Music
As someone who grew up in the 2000s, I listened to bands including 3 Doors Down, Breaking Benjamin, Linkin Park, and Nickelback ~and everyone clicked out~. A lot of these bands used to get a lot more mainstream attention than they do today, particularly because the "in thing" now is more electronic or alternative styles.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you like it? Dislike it? Why do you think it's changed? Is this record label control or a shift in the average listener's wishes? Personally, I still listen to a lot of hard rock music and music that fits those styles, and I've even gotten into some of the 90s grunge quite a bit more. As for the industry change, I don't really care for it, but I'm very slowly starting to come to terms with it. |
personally, I think a lot of that music is really bad. I'm pretty glad the spotlight has shifted onto poppier stuff, or at least eradicated all of the post-grunge stuff that I can't get into. there's a lot of grunge that's pretty neat, though -- Nirvana is still amazing, of course. and I think this is just a shift in the mainstream's opinion PLUS I think all the ground rock could ever possibly cover has been covered a million times over. perhaps. that's not to say I don't listen to a lot of rock music, because I do.
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Even with all the urban/electronic-pop/Blue-eyed soul in the charts nowadays I don't believe for a second that this is what's killing popular rock music. I just don't think we have many with that mainstream appeal right now. The likes of RHCP, Greenday, Linkin Park, Foo Fighters and loads of others were far more prolific in previous decades. Then of course the big hitters in rock are older still.
I'm hopeful though that we'll get some fresh blood in there eventually, there's still a huge market for it. The likes of Royal Blood and Drenge have a bit of potential, although pretty obviously neither will go on to be the new rolling stones. One day. |
Personally, the early-mid 2000s rock isn't for me. I see it as the turn that took rock out of popular music. Too dark, too hard, too angry, too loud. I mean, that's fine, but I like more variety and it feels like a lot of hard rock is, if you'll excuse the phrase, angry white boy music.
I like when my rock music brushes up against other genres like how Alabama Shakes is a kind of rock/blues band. Or when a band includes some electronic elements. Really though, I just think that there aren't too many standout rock groups and ones that sort of stand out are more fusions of rock with other sounds. |
I grew up in the early-mid 2000's as well, but rather than hard rock, I was really into the pop-punk of that era. Stuff like Sum 41, Yellowcard, Blink-182, Simple Plan, etc.
Although I did really enjoy Linkin Park around that time, and even these days I still dig their first two albums quite a lot. I miss that era, but I don't completely dislike what things have shifted towards. I don't particularily listen to rock these days, but I do listen to similar genres such as hardcore/metalcore/pop-punk/etc. In terms of "in" music, I certainly like what's popular currently, compared to what was popular say, 6-7 years ago. |
I think you guys have all hit on great points about that music and I have to agree with all of them. One thing I'm getting back into is reading into lyrics of a song more than just music (I am a lyricist first after all!) and that's helping me to get in tune with these newer songs a bit. At the same time, those post-grunge/nu-metal bands that were popular in the 2000s had a tendency to write songs that I identified with (and even now, still identify with to a degree), so they will have a place in my heart always.
And even despite all of these reasons, I'm still kind of hoping for another rock revolution in the next decade. Whatever that means :P |
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I admit I haven't paid attention to what's in nowadays. I pretty much been discovering songs I haven't heard before on Spotify and listen to them on repeat, even if the songs were a few years already, haha. Overall, though, I guess I don't mind the change as tastes can change from generation to generation. |
I like a lot of different genres of music, but rock and metal bands probably make up the majority of my favourites. Honestly, I think the fact of the matter is that this sort of music isn't really that marketable anymore though which is why it's slipped from the mainstream.
The public don't want complex, poetic, brooding, angry, gritty and loud for the most part anymore. They want simple and catchy with the occasional cliche sad love song. There's obviously more too it than that, but that's a big aspect as to why rock and metal genres are less popular now. |
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