It will become like Classical Music. People will still listen to it, but nobody will be interested in new stuff.
All the good rock music has already been made.
Who needs rock and roll when your audience listens to ghetto chanting?
I’d say classic rock is in danger largely because corporate radio stations hammering the same 20-40 songs and nothing else.from coast to coast.
Very few independent stations left to play the immense catalog of material. And bring interest.
Even the XM stations with niche audiences play far too little a selection.
The whole mega-corporation that was “Stoking the star-maker machinery / Behind the popular song” as Joni Mitchell put it, has likely reached its senescent form for exactly the reasons Van Zandt mentioned. But rock ‘n’ roll will never die, at least in the sense that we still have Tibetan nose-flute music after all these centuries. Springsteen would suck at that, too.
Disco lives forever.
It that is true for rock, it should be for any type of music.
It’s lasted pretty long as is
The Who already wrote a song for this
“Long live rock, be it dead or alive”
Glad I grew up in the era of “garage bands” and the musicians they created.
Well, he should have stuck with the Sopranos.
There are no new groups. I think Dire Straits is the last Brit rock band. I don’t think any bands or groups here are doing new stuff. As someone pointed out even the classic stations play limited song lists. I have 104.3 on here in nyc at dinner and I swear I’ll hear the same songs at the same time every other day.
Country has new stuff though I’m not fond of it. The choices now seem to be, as was said, Taylor Swift or Beyonce, and Black or Mex hip hop.
Well, your crap ‘rock and roll’ work hasn’t helped, Steven.
it’s gonna die, because the classic rockers are dying...
AI will produce soulless muzak that can serve as a soundtrack for people’s lives. Almost no one sits and listens anymore, so the consumers aren’t expecting much. But people are uncomfortable with silence — so some automated system of “music” which is almost white noise will replace what we’ve had for 60+ years.
African Wakanda Western Two-Step is the biggest new thing. Original African and Western Horsesh*t and Gunsmoke Music.
Oy vey!
I remember 1986 as being the last good year for rock. Starting with 1987, things started a slow decline. There was still some good stuff, but less and less of it each year. Have not heard a good “new” rock song in maybe 15 years.
These days, when the car next to me is blasting out Rap music at full volume, the occupants are just as likely to be white as black.
Ask a 20 year old who The Yardbirds were and you get a blank stare. Pretty soon you’ll get the same stare from a 20 year old when you mention The Beatles.
Music made these days for the major labels is all autotuned and ROI calculated using AI algorithms.
Rich men north of Richmond was a total anomaly.
I read where Frank Zappa said he had more respect for older record industry executives. As long as they were making money, they didn’t care what it was their bands played. Younger execs, in their 20’s and 30’s who thought they had heard and knew it all, he hated. Because they all had groupthink and latched onto bands that all sounded the same as one another, ossifying popular music.