Why Is Rock Still Dead?

I think for some of the younger generation, in California in particular, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) has been the genre (s) that have really cut into some of the rock crowd. As where EDM mostly used to be dance music which appealed to a euphoric and softer type sound, it's become increasingly more 'in-your-face' with the popularization of Electrohouse, Drum n Bass and dubstep.

EDM has more closely captures the ethos of rock n roll as well, with the drug experimentation and expression of sexuality. Although I have seen my dad gravitate towards country within the past decade and I think EDM is really only popular near areas surrounding fairly large cities.



As theprou mentioned in regards to paying DJs, some I think find true when looking to 'play' music as well. It's much easier to work with yourself or maybe like one other person on a Digital program on the computer with maybe just a keyboard controller, than it is with a full band each with perhaps a different direction they want to take the music in. There is some EDM which 'rocks' in the sense of an outlet to release angst or music to experiment to in various manners and some of the stuff labelled as EDM is even fusing live instrumentation into their work.

http://youtu.be/wMATj6ca9gU

http://youtu.be/i4lMO4vM5Cc

 

About country music of today real quick..its not LIKE pop and rock , of yesteryear..it IS pop and rock. One of the bands I play for does top 40 country..the structures and dynamics are the same as top 40 in the 80s . Theyve changed the words ..but its the same stuff.
Another guy I play for does traditional..totaly different.but I posted about this in the country super thread.

 

EDM track which even includes country aspects

http://youtu.be/5y_KJAg8bHI

 

I couldn't agree more, I was forced to give a wincing approval to some of southern rock, (Skynyrd) country rock ( eagles) and Redneck rock, (Waylon and Willy) but I think the worst came with the Garth Brooks phenomena where he didn't just co-opt rock elements, he flat out stole the whole formula! Riff based progressions, high flying guitar solos, bombastic outros complete with cascading toms and double bass drum rolls, fog machines and strobe lights... lol all magically made country with just the right drawl and yodel in the vocal. Of course there were also the whiny traditional C&W ballads tossed in just to keep it real I guess, and not lose too many of the fence riders, lol
Then came bands like Big and Rich, Brooks and Dunn...And what about the whole kid rock thing, oysh!

I've even heard some that struck me as bubble-gum country lol they had such sing-songy melody. Hip-hop and even EDM are becoming conspicuously present in some 'todays country' as well.

 

I call it bro country.lol

 

LOL

 

That kills it for me, but seems to make it better for most people.

Also, I can't live with the right wing political slant. Even within country, I only like who the Nashville establishment hates - Dixie Chicks, John Denver, Shania Twain - because they refused to conform, politically or in any other way.

 

I got my first "like" on song I posted on youtube.My top tune has had around 80 hits.I feel like a star.Pop and rock will never die as long as the world exists.The impulse to make new music is to great.

 

I say if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck. Does something bother you about the rock of country? By the precedent we have set in this thread on what it takes to rock, I would say that despite any lyrics or any drawl, a lot of these people being mislabeled as "country" actually are rock.

 

Country to me is Johnny Cash,Emmylou Harris,Townes Van Zandt,Merle Haggard and Guy Clarke.All old artists uncontaminated with rock influences.I'm not against cross pollination but I haven't heard any to be honest.

 

Everything new just sucks. It's ALL rock/country. All of it. Nothing stands against it. You have allowed this to happen, now drink of your poisoned cup.

 

Shania too? I didn't know she was a big lefty, lol

I Love her voice, not to mention she's an extreme babe...

 

Hahaha when EDM infiltrates a country bar!!! This is the dumbest thing ever. I don't mean in a bad way, it's just ridiculous.


http://youtu.be/2y-zNMtN-ZU

 

Hey Neon, what can you say, peeps are diggin it. I will tell you, I laughed..and still do, in a disbelieving way,when I hear a new bro country song come out that is essentially old Def Lep or AcDc riffs..But strangely enough, audiences love the stuff.And many of the bro country players were rockers to begin with.

 

LOL, I think country ended up becoming a refuge for a lot of 70's rock session cats and touring sidemen.

 

Yes! Im with you on that one Theprodu.Without a doubt, that what has happened. Its one of the few venues left where you make good bank.

 

The DJ sums it up well...Dumb and Dumber!

 

"Everything new just sucks. It's ALL rock/country. All of it. "

Kindof Ironic, because almost every generation expresses the same sentiment when new generations bring in new sounds and style etc.

Thankfully though, its not all countrified rock.There certainly is an overwhelming amount of it these days, but on the otherhand, the other stuff is out there too. Hopefully, youll run across something you like one of these days

 

I'm just being dramatic, I guess. That's the horror and despair I feel sometimes, though.

 

LOL, yep and a lot less work to play...hell, a lead guitarist might get a solo once in a while, seein' as how country seems to be one of the only current genres currently featuring instrumentalist solos in songs these days. Unfortunately for you, country bass for the most part remains fairly subdued. They haven't quite reached the level of acceptance for hot bass riffage beyond the normal ostenato.

LOL Let's hear Victor Wooten playing with a country band, now that would be a hoot!

Here's one...starts off kinda country but ends up in a whole other place...It's not country, it's not pop, rock or jazz, but they all live here...I love these guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaqNmyKEkfE