The last great new Rock and Roll was Bruce Springstein maybe Guns and Roses. Huge emphasis on maybe. The Rolling Stone officially died for me today when they put Lady Gaga on the cover. To be fair it has been in a brain dead comatose , heart barely beating, with the family arguing whether or not to pull the plug. They are completely irrelevant. Why? Maybe because there is nothing left for them to comment on. There is no more Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Band, The Beatles, or Jannis Joplin for them to talk about. Rolling Stone outlived what it was there to comment on.
Pop Music is corporate and silly i.e. Lady Gaga. The last touches of Rock and Roll I feel spilled in to "indie" music. Metal and Emo and Screamo are spun out and ridiculous, a pissing contest of who can be more heavy/loud/angry/sad. Who is there then to left provide intelligent comentary on music? The Rolling Stone has outgrown its use. There is Pitchfork, but their reviews are pretentious and terrible. Spin flat out sucks. Vice reviews are just an add-on and a forum for jokes. Maybe there can be no more intellligent commentary. I mean "indie" is a sub-sect of a sub-sect maybe not worth even discussing despite being the last quater relative of Rock and Roll. Pop music isn't David Bowie anymore. It's T-pain and Lady Gaga. What can you say about " Just Dance" or " Buy you a drank".
I am not sad about music or a "classic" rock enthusiast. I wish there was a new forum for Music journalism, I don't feel that blogs are adequate. So Big Daddy Corprate America, make better pop music for Rolling Stone to talk about, or send me a new Music Magazine because !!!
"Rolling Stone outlived what it was there to comment on." it's like when the wife or husband of a couple dies after fifty years of marriage so the last one left has to amuse him/herself with a substitution that cannot compare. how sad.
ReplyDelete"Pop music isn't David Bowie anymore." can you imagine what it must have been like to live in an era where pop music is defined by David Bowie? I bet it was beautiful.