R.I.P Rock N' Roll

By Jack Poe
Oi mates, it’s Johnny Jack again. Today you’re gonna get educated in today’s music, if that’s what you wanna call it, cause I don’t. We all have different music tastes. Some of you like pop, others prefer techno, a few of you like rock, and no one likes reggaeton (yeah right). Well I love music, but my favorite type is rock, and when I say rock I mean all types of rock, cause some people think that being “rockero” is just listening to heavy metal and hard rock. I like mostly every type of rock, but the way that today’s “rock” music is coming out, I’m getting disappointed more and more every year. I gotta point this issue because, as a rock fan, I seriously think rock music is dying because every single band that’s coming out has this emo-wanna-be-poppy-sound. Yeah I said it. Before I dig in deeper into the roots of rock n roll, if you are a fan of today’s music, you might wana stop reading..no? okay, let’s play some music.

Rock n’ roll music goes way back to the 40s and 50s, it came out of styles like blues, country, and jazz. Since its beginnings, it has revolutionized the world in different ways. Bands like Jimmy Hendrix Experience, The Beatles, Elvis Presely, Johnny Cash were the fathers of a movement that would continue to change.

Each decade is different in rock music. You have the 60s with psychedelic (Pink Floyd), you have the 70s with the beginnings of hard rock and punk (Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, The Clash), the 80s with their glam (Bon Jovi, Poison, Whitesnake) and the 90s with grunge (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden). For the 2000 decade, rock has been murdered slowly every year of it.

You guys have to admit; today’s rock is gayer than Elton John (no offense to gay people or Elton, who is a great artist by the way). All the bands are sounding the same, dressing the same, talking about the same, and even the lead singer’s voices of some are the same. Perfect example of this is Panic at the Disco and Fallout Boy. If they wouldn’t have different names, I would think “Thanks for the Memories” was from Panic, and to be clearer, I think they suck. Yeaah I said it! Now I’m gonna point out their styles, the emo-poppy shit every band has these days, so if you are a fan of that, I suggest you stop before you want to kill me for insulting your favorite band…no?, sure? Ok.

Nowadays, everyone’s wearing black and covering part of their faces with their hair, a thing that the cult would call “emo style”. With that said, I have to say something that everyone wants to say: You DON’T look cool dressing that way! Being emo doesn’t mean you have to wear tight black pants, pointy chains and bracelets, and put dark make-up on all the time.

Little bands like Metro Station are coming out thinking they’re the hottest shit in rock, and I guess they are considering everyone listens to them, but let’s be honest, they all look like My Chemical Romance wanna-be’s. But, to people that know rock and appreciate good music, we ask ourselves, WHERE IS THE MUSIC?, Where are the long guitar solos?, Where are the unique beating of drums? Where are the loud basses? Where are the different voices that lead singers are supposed to have? Like I said, it’s gone.

Not only this is happening, the worst is that bands that used to be the shit are now changing their styles in a bad way. For instance, as a Linkin Park fan, I was expecting “Minutes to Midnight” impatiently, and when it came out, I wanted to shoot myself. They need to go back to their Hybrid Theory days. Then, one of the world’s greatest bands, Korn, is losing their senses since See You On the Other Side. Even freaking Green Day is going gay with their new 21st Century Breakdown.

Thankfully, we still have bands like Metallica, Oasis, and Slipknot that are staying true to their styles and roots, but the rest are changing in bad ways. Some people would call me an old soul for this, but when older people like our parents tell us that the good music was that from their time, they are truly right. There is never gona be an Elvis Presley again, or an Eric Clapton, or a Led Zeppelin, or a Pink Floyd, or a Kurt Cobin, or a Michael Jackson. Like I said before, every decade in rock music is different, and the 2000 decade is about to end, and maybe, just MAYBE, the 2010 decade can see the dawn of a new rock generation that brings back it’s true meaning.

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