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The problem is mainstream is mostly R&B, even pop rock and indie rock. Not knocking pop rock, the early Beatles stuff was GREAT pop rock and I am not knocking indie either you have Imagine Dragons and Black Keys. The problem is the lack of harder rock. The hardest you get is Daughtry and Nickleback, maybe Shinedown and that's it. I personally like them but they are not Bon Jovi's, Motley Crue's or Aerosmith's even Lenny Kravitz that are credible hard rock.
In the '90s, I think that's when rap started to take the place of hard rock, although nu metal was still in so no one really noticed. By the early 2000s, the record companies started pushing the whole indie rock thing and it's been here ever since. I'm still not sure why hard rock just disappeared. Some of that may have also fused into country.
In the '90s, I think that's when rap started to take the place of hard rock, although nu metal was still in so no one really noticed. By the early 2000s, the record companies started pushing the whole indie rock thing and it's been here ever since. I'm still not sure why hard rock just disappeared. Some of that may have also fused into country.
Country had various periods of breaking in and then it would fade out of the mainstream though the current mainstream country which happened about 1998 or so hasn't (maybe a bobble in. As for rock, you'd have some non-indie alt rock and post-grunge break into the mainstream (Creed, Nickelback, Jet, Shinedown, Daughtry, etc.) or Evanescence, as well as pop punk or emo and snyth pop rock like The Killers. The problem is right now, it seems like rock has peaked besides indie stuff and won't be something important until it knocks us on our asses like say in the 1980's with Quiet Riot and Ratt and then like nu-metal we'll see a bunch come in and unless you are really special like Korn or change with the times like Linkin Park, you'll be small in a few years besides the scene you started in.
In the '90s, I think that's when rap started to take the place of hard rock, although nu metal was still in so no one really noticed. By the early 2000s, the record companies started pushing the whole indie rock thing and it's been here ever since. I'm still not sure why hard rock just disappeared. Some of that may have also fused into country.
Hard Rock was replaced by Rap.
Rap is the only thing out there with the swagger that the older hard rock had.
Just out of curiosity, are there any under 50 rock-n-roll acts today that can sell out a stadium or even a 20,000 seat arena?
Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, Imagine Dragons, maybe blink-182 and The Black Keys. Daughtry and Three Doors Down were able to for a while there. Maybe Halestorm can have off they have a big hit or two.
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