If you think Rock is unremarkable today you’re listening to the wrong Rock.
Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable) today?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by subarctictundra@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
whaleross@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because of normalisation. The more you experience anything, the less spectacular it becomes.
Teenage kicks in particular needs something that is amped up from what was before. Hence evolution of music and culture has always been driven by youth.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You need to put yourself in the frame of mind of a kid who up until they heard rock and roll, Laurence Fucking Welk was the grooviest thing they’d heard.
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My mom talked about staying up late to hear the black radio station because everything on the radio was so boring. She ran away from home to see Elvis!
You live in a different world, with streaming, you can listen to so much music. I can remember before that - we at least had community radio with volunteer DJs who played different stuff but top 40 radio literally played about 40 songs on repeat.
I suppose your grandkids will also consider whatever you think shocking music to be boring too
tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
nothing compares to 60s rock, dude##~___~ except maybe mongolian throat singing
s@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
What is your metric for grooviness?
Delphia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ive always wondered something similar about ancient artwork.
Like, sure I can tell its a horse, but thats a shitty horse. Thats a horse from the finest artistic minds of the day that looks like a 7yo did it these days. Like someone didnt look at that misshapen lump and think "I can make that look more like a horse.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Same reason as why wheels aren’t very impressive today, but they probably were the shit for quite a while in Sumer back then. Things don’t seem as impressive, or as [any other adjective], when they have been around for a long time and people have gotten used to them.
froh42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What did the inventor of the wheel say, after they turned it for the first time?
“Friends, that’s a revolution!”
EvilTankieSupreme@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Everyone is wrong here.
“Groovy” was a term that black people used to describe their music, so when white people claimed Rock And Roll they decided to steal the verbiage too.
dumbass@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
because our tolerance for groovie got higher and higher.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
chuck berry, buddy holly, elvis, jerry lee lewis, johnny cash, richie valens. It was not all unremarkable and doubly so for the time. If you include the ones coming out of the end of the 50’s you got smokey robinson and aretha franklin which have some stuff I just love. Im not a big elvis or cash fan but there are a few songs. One thing funny about elvis for me is I like a lot of remakes of his songs with a bit of modern flare from modern artists.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
why is an oasis seen as the quenchiest shit in the desert when it’s just averagely refreshing elsewhere?
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Throwing some shade at Blur
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Liam deserves it. The boggity bastard.