>>19995343Eventually, all music has to die. That's what I've realized being somewhat in the music game my entire life. It's a very organic process. The straight up rock did it's thing after elvis and the solid gold oldies for a solid 15-20 years, then it got a bit more flamboyant and shred with heavier tone (que hair metal) while simultaneously it got heavier, more radical, and faster (thrash metal) which eventually went over the top (death metal) while the original rock sound had to have a mutation, becoming more mellow while grittier at the same time (grunge). Rock eventually was tamed, and became corporate (90s corporate rock sound, 3rd eye blind, fuel, Nickle-back). The kids spiced it up with punk, which became hardcore, which became post-hardcore. Punk became spunky, made pop-punk through the 90s, which would eventually meet up with post-hardcore/original emo to make the mall early 00's "emo" that normies all know and love(d) or hate(d). Rap was looming in the background throughout the 90s, and eventually just full on replaced rock/punk/hardcore/grunge all together (which nu-metal was somewhat of a primer for) as rap continued to fuse and mate with pop music. What we have now is pop music that is fully influenced by rap, and rap music that is somewhat more melodic (auto-tune, sad boi, Drake) making it a clean sweep take over for all rap infused music. People who liked instruments are depressed. The punk/emo/hardcore/corporate rock people mainly got filtered into metalcore/technical metal/djent, or they took the indie folk hipster route. Metal has stayed alive pretty decently through the 2010s tell now, but the djent music is very pretentious, the fans are pretentious as fuck, and hardly even support the music, while as impressive and technical as the modern music is.....something about it just isn't as alive as the 60s/70s/80s/90s. Some people say it died with hair metal, some say grunge, others (me) say nu-metal (though I like deftones).
