The Death of Rock and Roll with Mozz
Mozz has come clean on his fears about the future
of rock music “rock audiences are a very niche and marginalised group in
today’s music industry” he continues saying that “people always say the
sentence that the world needs rock stars again, but it doesn’t need rock stars
in the sense of people who act like stereotypical rock stars it needs real
personalities which are charismatic and interesting to large audiences” he
stressed how “the world does have a few of these people but the industry is so saturated
and there are so many people copying each other that it’s hard for theses
personalities to emerge and get noticed”. He then compared rock to other genres
“the reason hip hop and rap are so successful is because they’re not just music
there’s much more behind them, there’s art and culture attached to the genre
and although I don’t particularly listen to hip hop I can see that it’s a world
built on the ideas of community, culture, art, fashion and money to name a few
things and I’m quite envious of the position it’s in when compared to Rock
because when Rock music gains these things it can be popular again”.
Mozz also addressed another problem within the genre that
hasn’t received much attention in the past “another problem within Rock music
is that the entire touring community is based off of old bands with most
members being in their sixties and touring every year or so; although this
doesn’t seem like a bad thing at first in a few years bands like KISS won’t be
touring anymore because they’ll simply be too old and with them goes their
audience which are the large scale community, so what happens after that? Well…
it’ll either be the death of Rock and Roll or people will finally start paying
attention and Rock will gain some recognition and perhaps a new audience”.
However he believes that there is still hope for the genre
as social media has become a day to day part of many people’s lives, it may
allow new rock bands and artists to become popular with a large audience much
easier allowing Rock music to become widespread again and in his words
“possibly have a rebirth of rock music” he said how his career is “very much
predicated on social media" and how he’s hopeful other bands can become popular in the same way and keep
Rock alive.
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