Tuesday 23 February 2016

My Article for my double page spread



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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