https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/14/its-just-not-worth-it-is-this-the-end-of-sex-drugs-and-rocknroll
No. Rock has just been inundated with yuppie cute twinks. Hip-hop and rap seem to have taken up the mantle of the rock n roll lifestyle.
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Isn't the lead singer of Rammstein in hot water for giving booze to groupies?
You can't even have a hot girl in a music video, without someone clutching their pearls
Add in the fact that it pretty much costs money to tour; You really can't party... It just isn't worth it.
If you look at rock videos from the 80s and 90s, they look like hip hop videos. Hot girls, cool cars, throwing cash around... The busybodies tried to call hiphop sexists but they themselves got called racist, so they changed targets.
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Ozzy singing about doing coke and weed was cool.
Lil Homo singing about doing the same thing is lame.
Simple as
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Not a single person that article interviews has lived any kind of life and they'll look back on their twenties when they're older and realise that they were no more interesting or exciting than if they'd worked in McDonald's.
Here's Keith Moon's last ever performance on stage in New York with some band I've never heard of:
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Rock and roll lifestyle by CAKE
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EXCESS AIN'T REBELLION
YOU'RE DRINKING WHAT THEY'RE SELLING
YOUR SELF DESTRUCTION DOESNT HURT THEM
YOUR CHAOS WON'T CONVERT THEM
THEY'RE SO HAPPY TO REBUILD IT
YOU NEVER REALLY KILLED IT
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Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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