The Decline of Rock Music; The real reason and the technicality behind it.

If I were to ask you a question that what is your favourite genre of music, most of the answers would probably be pop and hip-hop. Well as a connoisseur of rock music, I would be deeply disheartened by this response, not because I hate the other genres but because of the simple fact that most of you have not been exposed to the other genres of music.

Nowadays, pop music dominates the world, only because of its watered-down approach, cheesy lyrics, and looping tracks.

People have forgotten that music was created as a means of expression of freedom and individuality. Back in the ’60s till the ’90s, a musician was famous if he or she was standing apart from the rest of the crowd even of the same genre and the music was so dynamic and chromatic. On the contrary, modern musicians of the same genre or even sometimes of the different genres have such similar sounding elements as if they are all trying to sound the same to be a part of the ongoing trend. Today, if you sound too distinct, you won’t survive in the industry.

The decline of rock music is the perfect example of this, rock has always been about variations, creativity, and containing a significant amount of human error which gives it an edge over the other genres. If you are an enthusiastic listener of music, you must know that the quantization of beats is also one of the factors contributing to the decline of rock.

What quantization means is that the music we hear in hip-hop and pop is electronically generated and due to this it can be broken down to the finest level and it is perfect just like a robot, following a set of instructions, well this may sound cool but it takes out the expression factor of it all.

Music in the past was recorded by musicians who practised for hours and even after that, as a part of human nature, committed some errors and that’s what ironically gave them their uniqueness.

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