re: What's up with white boys nowadays

I love french pop music, i'm a white boy.

Hate, hate country music and most rap.

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I can't stand being around millennials anymore.

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The feeling is probably mutual.

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The feeling is probably mutual.

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Well you and Jason Aldean can geaux to hell

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I love french pop music

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Have you heard of Stereosnap?

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I can't stand being around millennials anymore.

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I love how some of you use this term for anyone young. The youngest millennials are in their mid-20s now. The oldest are well into their 30s.

10 years ago, this board had a lot of college students and folks in their late 20’s/early 30’s. Now, that cadre of posters is in their 30’s and 40’s, and this site hasn’t attracted as many college students in recent years.

In 2015, the Trump phenomenon and increased partisan censorship on traditional message boards and social media drove a lot of boomers to TD as a sort of island of misfit toys for older internet conservatives. A lot of these boomer Trump supporters started on the poliboard and eventually overtook the rant. The more the OT “aged” in opinions by its most active users, the less attractive the space became to younger posters, and the more attractive it became to middle aged white collar and blue collar baws, creating a self-feeding boomer and late gen-xer loop.

WSMFP baw

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I can't stand being around millennials anymore.

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How young do you think millennials are? Millennials grew up in the 80s, 90s, and very early 2000s.

A few more notes for OP:
1. A lot of new, very good, rock music is being made today.
2. Rock sounding music isn’t on terrestrial radio except on classic rock stations
3. Classic rock stations don’t play anything less than 20 years old
4. Rock isn’t played to get hot young white women drunk and horny as they want country, rap, edm, and hiphop.
5. Check out the following bands and tell me if they don’t f$&king slap:
True Villains
Greta Van Fleet
The Struts
South of Eden
Dirty Honey
Jade Bird
Gary Clark Jr.
Reignwolf

Good rock is out there, but it requires some digging to find.

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the Smiths-style shoegaze route

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What bands are combining The Smiths post-punk driving sensibilities with shoegaze? There are remarkably few shoegaze influenced bands anymore.

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the punky early weezer-ish emo route

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What bands are doing this?

I'm questioning you because the neat categorization system critics developed doesn't really work anymore. You can hear some Phil Collins pop sensibilities in Ariel Pink's "Put Your Number in my Phone," which is wonderfully arranged with elements from lots of different genres, and then Ariel Pink can turn around and write something that is as straight from the early days of post-punk, with overtones of Joy Division and Bauhaus, but even still you hear the weird hollowed out gated reverb driving drum sound that I'm pretty sure is directly from XTC, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins. The ability of musicians in the studio to take small elements from multiple genres, as though from a buffet, means that finding direct origins now is extremely difficult. The few bands that reach commercial success that feature elements of hardcore, like Idles, borrow heavily from the Motorik drums style, which gives them a fairly unique sound in terms of bands that were influenced by punk simplicity.

I have a lot of theories about why you don't see traditional 12-bar blues-based rock music anymore, but that is for a different thread.