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Who Killed Rock and Roll?

submitted 3 months ago by Entropick from (brianniemeier.com)

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[–]Hematomato 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 months ago (1 child)

The downward trend affected every medium from live action movies to anime to music. And it hit right around 1997.

I really don't agree with this.

First of all, I don't think 1998-2000 were downward-trending years at all. Not only were sales still strong, exciting and creative stuff was coming out every month. The author sort of waves his hands and calls 1998-2000 a "dead cat bounce," but dead cat bounces really only exist in markets.

If anything, I think the end of rock was 9/11. The rock scenes were already starting to crumble due to all the factors listed in the article, but in the post-9/11 years it seemed inappropriate to sing anything either celebratory or rebellious and those scenes just fell apart permanently.

Second, minor quibble, but video games definitely didn't start declining at that same time. AAA Video games only got better and better until about 2015, and then the industry shit the bed.

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