by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I recently saw someone posit a hypothesis that the reason why rock is no longer pop music is all the punks who would otherwise pick up a guitar and write a rock standard are now Incels on Reddit. This idea has given me pause for thought because it makes a lot of sense.
The fact that “good” music (relative to me) evaporated just about the time the iPhone came out does seem to lend a little bit of credence to this idea. We’re over due for a third wave of punk, if nothing else, which makes you wonder if something like all the punks being keyboard warriors rather than guitar heros has merit to it.
If nothing else, the idea that maybe the nature of adolescence has changed might be to blame for the lack of pop rock. I will note that there’s something else that’s really changed in pop music — women pretty much dominate all the good mainstream pop music these days.
While I’m all for sisters doing it for themselves, it would be nice for there to be some sort of balance. But, whatever. What do I know. No one listens to me and maybe they shouldn’t.
