Death of Rock

Restating my contention here that the importance of popular music as it has been known (Beethoven to Beatles) will diminish in the future. The reason being that when an art form gets to be something that pretty much everyone or anyone can do, when the skills and qualities associated have been so resolutely identified, analyzed and perfected, it no longer retains one of its essential qualities which is: that the people who create it are doing something only a few can. It was their exceptionalness that gave them legitimacy and authority, their passport to importance. For this reason I can see the end of popular music as a cultural reference within a generation or two perhaps to be reinvented in another context at a later point.

This is not to say that music won't have its place, just that it will be defined by posterity rather than currency. The preoccupation with what's hot that presides today will become so devoid of meaning that currency in music will have little value outside of the truly outstanding which is the way it should be anyway. People will be more likely to look back decades and centuries for their appreciation cues. And even then that appreciation might be as much for historical interest as anything else as the benefits of emotional intelligence start to erode the demand for music as therapy.


Vehement enough by satanic predilection of roots de rock, I feel Rock is dying and so do I.