re: Does rock music exist anymore?

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Methinks OP considers Poison the pinnacle of rock music.

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Methinks you're full of shite. Iron Maiden has played to a quarter mil. Metallica has sold 30+ million of one album. These aren't Poison. The last round of the popular rock scene was filled with whining, flannel clad moaners and they were huge. What has rock been since? A scattered bunch of copycats on soundcloud few will ever hear? The glut of cover and tribute bands playing bowling alleys on Friday nights? That underground band that's houseband at some dump in a bad part of a metro?

If it's all "you've really got to look for it", you get what you've had for three decades... rock being a collection of 60-70 year olds playing festivals and the rest being shitty corporate pop.

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The last round of the popular rock scene was filled with whining, flannel clad moaners and they were huge. What has rock been since?

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You completely skipped over numetal and pop punk. Linkin Park and Green Day are both currently headlining stadiums and LP has the best selling album of this century. You also missed the more mainstream stuff like 21 Pilots and Imagine Dragons, plus Creed, Nickelback, Shinedown, and the other radio friendly rock bands that are still huge. Also newer bands like Ghost, Sleep Token, and Bad Omens who are all massively popular. I could keep going but you get the point.

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Rock exists but it is ignored by the record companies and the charts. If you're in rock today you have to self-produce. Record companies and the charts are only interested in rap. They even want to turn country into rap. Been that way for close to 20 years now.

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Bro you have it backwards, the current trend is to turn everything into country. An insane amount of large and upcoming acts in the last 5 years have either done a full country pivot or dropped a very unsubtle country album to ride the wave of the explosion of country’s popularity in that time frame

Nope

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Go to your local strip club and find out.... You won't hear a rock song in a complete 8 hours.

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Spotify is now the old person's way of finding music. All the kids are using tiktok. Its the main place any new band breaks out and gives some older bands new audiences.

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I’ve definitely found a few decent bands or songs through that type of marketing/virality, but I think my broader point is that if people like the OP expect good music or music that you relate to just land in your lap and be directly targeted and marketed to you- once you’re over the age of 16, it’s not going to happen like that anymore. But there’s a ton of incredible avenues for easily discovering and finding new bands and music via streaming, but they don’t work autonomously.

I get what you’re saying, but that’s a pretty awful way to actually try to find new music consistently imo. Some of the most viral songs are popular in the way that like Hey there Delilah was popular on 102.5 top 20 hits for like a decade after it was actually popular which also leads this weird middle ground where bands who have barely played a live show are all of a sudden packing out amphitheaters full of preteens who know their song from Tik Tok

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that’s been happening for a long long time (but not tiktok). The Band released two acclaimed studio albums before they ever played a live show as the Band…

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Sure to an extent, but I think it’s a little different when it’s so accessible and marketed directly to them like Tik Tok is and the main driver of interest is a 10 second clip of the chorus of 1 song


Back then you probably would need to be pretty dialed in to that scene to be aware of something like that dropping and hope it was accessible at your local record store or that they would end up doing a show in your state at some point. And the people showing up probably really did find and listen to those albums, so they were sold out but probably just way less volume of shows and venues to compare to today. And when Compared to bands not even having an EP ready to show yet and already have management, a multiple state tour, and VIP meet and greets bc their 1 single popped off a little

Sweet setup.

Yours?

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