The Death Of Rock N Roll
The Death Of Rock N Roll
Here we are on the brink on the new millennium, ready to step into the New World and adapt to the new environment of time. We shall be embracing new lifestyles, all of us; but we shall be leaving a big chunk of our past and present buried in the wastes of time. Rock n roll is dead?
What started out as a revolution of the youth in the 50’s is right now an endangered species. Rock n roll had lived through its glory days and now stands at the threshold of its extinction. Throughout the latter years of this millennium, rock n roll had been gaining momentum, rising above all music forms and mutating into a religion of sorts, it had risen above its intended stature
And subsequently it collapsed in on itself. An event that was perhaps as magnanimous as the overnight extinction of the dinosaurs, but an event that has gone unnoticed by millions worldwide.
It is no fallacy that rock n roll was the one of the biggest institutions worldwide. Reaching its apex in the 1980s, rock n roll had permeated every facet of our lives. Rock n roll was everywhere, whether we liked it or not. Opponents claimed that rock n roll was the devil’s advocate. They used the imagery of devil worshipping and chanting to defame rock. The church openly waged a war on rock components. Nevertheless the rock regime never let go of the Billboard chart ratings for over a decade, filling in the charts with scores of rock acts. Television had filled our lives with entertainment, and entertainment was dominated by rock n roll; be it commercials, TV series, Movie soundtracks, Music Channels, even the News! The media was forcing rock n roll down the American throat and America loved every minute of it. Excessive lifestyles, Political meanderings, Stuffed toys and Action figures, Rock n roll was everywhere.
MTV was another invention of the eighties which was a direct result of the Rock boom. Perhaps both MTV and Rock n roll shared a symbiotic link, Rock n roll fuels MTV and MTV in result spoon-fed loads of it to a Mass audience previously totally inaccessible. Teenagers were the ones to be hit the worst. Until now, Rock couldn’t invade their young minds because of the somewhat scrutinized upbringing by reserved parents, but when MTV hit the screen, Rock was...