Yea Forums can you explain to me why rock is unpopular nowadays ?

Rock music ran out of steam. You trace the history from early, very blues influenced rock. Through the poppish more happy early 60s, the folk and psychedelia of the mid to late 60s. The hard rock and heavy metal of the early 70s. The prog of the late 70s, the AOR synthy pop rock of the 80s. Grungey downbeat alternative scene of the early 90s. Indie rock throwing everything to see what'd stick in the late 90s. Garage and post-punk revival of the early 2000s. Which, in my opinion, was the last time rock really mattered in the zeitgeist. As the 2000s came to a close, rock became so squeaky clean and sanitised. A key component of rock was always the attitude, or at least the feeling, of not giving a fuck and doing what you want. Even the meek and mild indie stars of the late 90s swore, looked unkept and gave a big middle finger to the pre-conceived notions of what rock should and shouldn't be. Besides that, most things that can be done with rock have been done. Though there's a lot more potential for more niche and experimental directions for rock. People are very stuck in the past. Car Seat Headrest is probably the best and most refreshing rock band of this decade and even that's just a rehash of the late 90s. Rock's place in pop culture was taken by hip-hop. That's the new dangerous music that's on the cutting edge of cultural and musical relevance. When we look back on the 2010s, people will remember Drake, Death Grips, XXXtentacleporn, Migos etc. Even as a big fan of rock music, the only band I really care about now is Car Seat Headrest because a lot of the other rock bands are just painfully boring. Look at Greta Van Fleet, Rock needs to stop looking to the past, but it can't. Funnily enough, the genre as a whole has gone the same way a lot of the big dinosaur rock bands of the 70s and 80s went. Kept trying to do what made them big in the first place, leaving them stuck in time and completely irrelevant musically and culturally.

it isn't unpopular and people apparently don't want to stop listening to it or talking about it, judging by all music discussion forums. rock shows also continue to outsell rap shows in tickets. the only difference is the media chooses not to promote rock anymore

Because rock became more intelligent, and popular things are usually more unintelligent (hip hop, pop, electronic dance music, etc)

>rock shows also continue to outsell rap shows in tickets. the only difference is the media chooses not to promote rock anymore
This is pretty true, rock became too independent and the fans too loyal, it lasts in spite of the people who tried to bury it because those values are important to rock fans.

The opposite is true of pop and rap fans, who do not value being part of a subculture or dedicating time to music, they only care about what came out today until tomorrow when they forget about it. That's what the labels and the media wants to promote, because it justifies their existence.

Why do you care? You haven't even heard 5% of all the rock music that has been released, you don't need new rock records. Eventually every genre will decay but it will never "die" because 7,5 billion people can't just stop listening to it, stop making pointless threads

>tfw to intelligent to be popular

It's not unpopular. It's just that rap is more at the forefront of the cultural zeitgeist.

>Rock needs to stop looking to the past
>only I say how a genre should sound!
stop

Because rock is cringe and for basedboys. Lyrics suck ass and the music is inferior.

it isn't

In my opinion rap/hip hop has lived too long. Why don't people want melody aka the nerve of actual music back. It's mind boggling.

Kill yourself

Not an argument
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>You haven't even heard 5% of all the rock music that has been released
true
>you don't need new rock records.
false

Name a single popular rock artist in 2019

>Why don't people want melody aka the nerve of actual music back. It's mind boggling.
They do and that's the problem with modern rap, it's all melody and catchiness with no lyrics.....rap is supposed to be about lyrics first and foremost. Rock is the opposite, but people do want rock, they're just not spoonfed it anymoroe so they listen to complete garbage like XXX and Lil Peep that's an insult to both rock and rap because it's the only thing algorithms send them because it's all they know and don't care to know more. If you're my age, which is relatively young still, we all knew about shit from the past because we all saw something on TV about it and maybe got interested or not, this is not the case anymore.

>meme

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Get shot ape

High cost of production, and doesn't survive loudness war mastering as well as hip-hop.

Rammstein

Enjoy your dead genre

If I'm enjoying it, then it's not dead

hip hop is way more accessible to make so it overfloods the market and with it incorporating rock and other elements they are overstepping its boundaries

slipknot

physical rock albums also outsells rap albums