Have you heard about the new fight for a new year? Drummer for the Black Keys, Patrick Carney, seems to be opening up a can of worms with Nickleback fans saying that the Canadian band is the cause for the decline of rock and roll music. ""Rock and roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world." True, the genre has been in a decline for the past little while, but there's no recreating bands like the Beatles, or the Who. I, for one, don't think that rock is in a downward sprial at all, but is definitely taking giant leaps in a different direction than before.
Take a read through the article from an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine. Carney does seem to go on and on bashing Nickleback, but I think he makes some good points. The world has seem to just accept this quartet that just recreates the same song, but with different words. Settling just doesn't seem acceptable when it comes to music, or art, for that matter. If there is no motivation to keep progressing, then where would we ever be with music now?
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I think that the new direction of music isn't to make mega rock groups like 20 years ago, but to allow for growth of many smaller groups that appeal to subsets of the population.
ReplyDeleteInteresting article, I think Carney has a point, in that rock shouldn't be overly manufactured and watered down, and the artist need to be committed to their music.
The only thing that concerns me is Carney being a first class dick to Canadian musicians. I heard an interview a few months ago where he was mocking Geddy Lee from Rush, and now this? I think he's on a bit of an ego trip, and needs to tone it down. Otherwise, he'll likely be seeing the "Northern Lights" from some angry Rush or Nickleback fan.
The link in this didn't work, but I found it here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cover-story-excerpt-the-black-keys-20120104