@n80,
"And therein lies the real issue. Its the kids. They have lots of money and tiny attention spans and are mindless consumers all of which has been cultivated by the culture since the 1990s. If all they want is the millenial whoop and three repeated bass notes there will be an industry ready and willing to sell it to them over and over again."
You don’t have to be a raging conspiracy theorist to question just how this came to be.
Once upon a time, ok in the post war US boom, some kids (Elvis, Buddy, Chuck, Roy, Richard, etc) starting picking up guitars and a whole new genre of music was born.
Back then the industry responded to the fashions and trends that were created on the streets and in the back rooms of mainly young men soon to be dubbed teen-agers.
Unfortunately as the science of marketing has advanced, no doubt alongside advances in psychology, it has unfortunately become far easier to condition human beings than ever previously.
It is, in short, it’s nothing less than an attempt at a form of global psychological and economic slavery, that we see at work today.
However, Rock and Roll (alongside film - Brando, Dean, Newman, Pacino etc) has never previously failed to throw up the occasional rebel, the maverick, the iconoclast.
The truly subversive that can touch something deep within all of us.
We can smile now, but back in the 50s some TV stations would only shoot Elvis from the waist up. Even long hair was a big thing back then, just look at the flak the Beatles got for their hairstyles back in 63/4.
Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and the Doors also caused quite a stir in their time didn’t they? In the UK there’s been nothing like the Sex Pistols for introducing cultural change in my lifetime.
I guess we now need someone who could also show us that this is not all that there is. It will probably mean the dividing of generations but so what?
The big question is, who’s going to lead the resistance and rekindle the apparently flagging human spirit?
Or id if you prefer a Freudian term.
