Why are there no rock stars anymore?

badabing106

Who is to bame? Liberterrorism? Feminism? The establishment?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

badabing106 wrote: »

Who is to bame? Liberterrorism? Feminism? The establishment?

None of the above. There are just no true rock stars about at the moment.

Noveight

Liam Gallagher explains all in 30ish seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckUKrUqEesc

JJJJNR

There is no sub culture, so there cannot be rock stars etc. I blame smart phones.

AnneFrank

badabing106 wrote: »

Who is to bame? Liberterrorism? Feminism? The establishment?

Political correctness

FizzleSticks

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FizzleSticks

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endacl

Being a rock star is expensive. Everybody wants music to be free.

Add a dollop of tv talent show to taste.

EndaHonesty

The blame is...

Mobile phones.


Rockstars can't behave like rockstars with cameras in every pocket...

LordSutch

badabing106 wrote: »

Why are there no rock stars anymore?

Because mostly they're all dead, bar a few like Macca, Mick n'Keith, Roger n'Pete + Ozzy

OldMrBrennan83

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Rumpy Pumpy

Noveight wrote: »

Liam Gallagher explains all in 30ish seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckUKrUqEesc

That’s a great video. He answers the OP’s question, makes what looks like a lovely cup of tea, and has a good rant

...And Justice

AnneFrank wrote: »

Political correctness

Exactly why James hetfield of Metallica moved to out of San Francisco. He hates liberals.

Agricola

Liam Gallagher pretty much explained the lack of hedonistic rock stars these days. No money in the industry like the old days. But the bigger thing is rock is no longer counter culture, it's old news, Dad music. Plus, the masses now seem to like their stadium fillers to be pasty, unassuming ginger student types.

It's all very strange and makes me feel twice as old as I am!

Patww79 wrote: »

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Oh yeah, good point. Rock stars are controversial, don't tow the party line and are possibly dangerous to sales figures .. (See the aforementioned Liam Gallagher / Oasis and their attempt to break America in the '90s.) Wouldn't be tolerated these days.

Pac1Man

The allure of interesting characters is no longer present. People now have instant access to their favourite music and celebrities. There is no intrigue or wonder because you know everything about them already.

EPAndlee

They are either dead or the rock and roll lifestyle has taking too much of a toll on them

...And Justice

EPAndlee wrote: »

They are either dead or the rock and roll lifestyle has taking too much of a toll on them

Lemmy was a true rock star until the end.

Donal55

Simon Cowell's fault.
And Louis.

Arsemageddon

...And Justice wrote: »

Exactly why James hetfield of Metallica moved to out of San Francisco. He hates liberals.

Where will himself and the boys go for their manly group therapy sessions?

Bunch of pansies.

P. S. Spot on about Lemmy.

EPAndlee

...And Justice wrote: »

Lemmy was a true rock star until the end.

We have lost so many greats of rock! Rock isn't what it used to be as much as I love Nirvana, Guns and Roses,Motorhead etc I do like a lot of the new bands and some are pretty good

Pac1Man

The lads should be touring again soon anyway.

Ipso

What's a rock star? Junkie, some one who sleeps with women of questionable age

Hans Bricks

Probably because the generation after them have all went into the Indie and alternative rock scene since and it's been watered down by these sub genres. That's what I think anyway. Extreme, Slit your wrist death metal wasn't going to fill that void either.

Kings Of Leon
The Killers
The Kooks
The Strokes
Arctic Monkeys
Two Door Cinema club

......... not a character or band member of note with any charisma to name there. Can you imagine another Keith Moon blowing up toilets on their tour bus ?

I don't think rock really recovered after the the grunge scene ended.

smilerf

I like an American rock band called Goodbye June. The lead singer has real presence

...And Justice

Johnny rotton was a rock star and told it how it was and was banned for calling saville a dirty paedo back in the 80's. To be fair to him, he's still Johnny rotton today. Not like all the reformed characters around today.

Insect Overlord

Is everyone forgetting about the Foo Fighters and Queens Of the Stone Age?

kwestfan08

Hip Hop has taken over from rock as the soundtrack to most young people these days. As such it's were the artists make the most money and where you'll find some of the displays of hedonism that you'd typically define as "rockstar" behaviour.

Most rock bands are meeting in university or whatever rather than just 4 guys in a garage with a dream.

Hammer89

Pac1Man wrote: »

The lads should be touring again soon anyway.

Well some of them.

Grayson

Noveight wrote: »

Liam Gallagher explains all in 30ish seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckUKrUqEesc

That would mean that being a rockstar means having 4 people to make you tea.

Archeron

It's really hard to throw a TV out a hotel room window now, a 58" flat screen caught on a strong wind could travel a good mile and a half.

Probably the changing attitudes towards statutory rape and sexual assault.

Mrcaramelchoc

Bono is still around................your right there all gone.

andekwarhola

Noveight wrote: »

Liam Gallagher explains all in 30ish seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckUKrUqEesc

What an imbecilic fcukwit that man is.

737max

answer: The film "Spinal Tap"

It made the musical artistes more self-aware.
the T.V. show Silicon Valley and the like will do the same for IT entrepreneurs

Birneybau

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Is everyone forgetting about the Foo Fighters and Queens Of the Stone Age?

:pac: The Foo Fighters :pac:

Liam Gallagher is nothing but a moron.

Iggy is still going, Nick Cave has still got it going on.

sydthebeat

...And Justice wrote: »

Johnny rotton was a rock star and told it how it was and was banned for calling saville a dirty paedo back in the 80's. To be fair to him, he's still Johnny rotton today. Not like all the reformed characters around today.

Would that be the same jonny rotten that's the 'country life' Butter advertiser?

andekwarhola

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Is everyone forgetting about the Foo Fighters and Queens Of the Stone Age?

With any luck, yes.

bucketybuck

Let's face it, all that rock star ****e was just arsehole behaviour.

It's like your dad telling stories about all the old local characters and how you don't have their type around any more, and you start to realise that those "characters" were in reality just a bunch of smelly, seedy old drunks wasting their lives in pubs.

Same with those old crock stars. I mean, who wants to be some druggy twat wrecking hotel rooms? That's something to aspire to? Nah, you can keep it.

Birneybau

andekwarhola wrote: »

With any luck, yes.

The Foo Fighters are as rock as Bon Jovi.

kev1.3s

I reckon the closest we get to a rock star these days is Russel brand, shame he's not in a band.

...And Justice

bucketybuck wrote: »

Let's face it, all that rock star ****e was just arsehole behaviour.

It's like your dad telling stories about all the old local characters and how you don't have their type around any more, and you start to realise that those "characters" were in reality just a bunch of smelly, seedy old drunks wasting their lives in pubs.

Same with those old crock stars. I mean, who wants to be some druggy twat wrecking hotel rooms? That's something to aspire to? Nah, you can keep it.

I agree, sure Metallica are sober......but the machine is worth a billion dollars. Good luck to them.

Johngoose

Shows like X-Factor are killing off young talent. An example being X-Factor having a monopoly with Christmas number 1 singles.

fatknacker

Rock got old. The world moved on. Long hair, drug & child abuse, the odd catchy riff and leather pants just don't cut it anymore.

It's all BEEP BEEEEP this and BWAW BWAAAAWW that now.

Gunslinger92

Josh Homme is still around

Irish Guitarist

'Rock stars' stopped seeming rebellious around the time gangsta rap became popular in the early nineties. Driving a limousine into a swimming pool can't really compete with popping a cap in a niggas ass. And then there was the likes of Kurt Cobain ridiculing Guns N' Roses and Metallica.

And a big part of the 'rock and roll lifestyle' was having sex with underage groupies. Jimmy Page had a fourteen year old girlfriend who supposedly slept with David Bowie too when she was thirteen. I think Gary Glitter finally killed off the idea that that kind of thing was acceptable.

Summer wind

Rock on Billy:)

Anesthetize

The whole rock star bullshit pretty much killed itself in a cloud of cocaine and crap music. I like my rock music to be less about ego and more about music.

lazybones32

Organ failure is why there are no interesting rock stars around these days but i think pu$$ification is why the rock n roll lifestyle isn't being lived by the bands out there. Too into clean living etc.

I imagine twitter would crash if some musician bit the head off a bat nowadays.

awec

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Is everyone forgetting about the Foo Fighters and Queens Of the Stone Age?

Soft, sanitised rock.

Some good hits among a sea of bland muck.

Anesthetize

You can thank Foo Fighters for making mainstream rock boring. But thankfully rock music has always been better away from the mainstream.

Outlaw Pete

https://twitter.com/liamgallagher/status/920897205824905216