Rock music is based upon the next big things, from the birth of rock in the 1950s, to grunge in the 1990s. It is faddy, cool, fashionable. And not always musical.
Does anybody deny the importance of the recording to the 1920s? Or videos to the 1980s?
Or file swapping to the 00s?
File swapping, let's call it music distribution, is still in flux but the basics are there and now it is more of a question of cassette or 8 track, the cloud or music rentals. The CD is dead… everything is digital.
So next?
Next, I think it will be similar to new wave. I think dance, which has already become a part of hip hop, will mate with rock and roll. Drop The Lime will become the paradigm and it will give depth to dance and movement to rock.
We have seen the sparks already, Lady Gaga missed (she was too obsessed with her 80s icons to hear it thru) but someone else will meld it precisely right and it will explode.
The death of the middle in popular music is just a metaphor, albums sell, songs sell, music is cool and will be cool. Things take off, ideas float. And the next idea will be the Drop The Lime, two bass players and two turntables, and two drummers, and a guitarist and a PC/synth and a soul singer. And it will be live.
Luca Venezia is too busy with trouble And Bass to give Drop the Lime what it is, Holy Ghost! are a disco rock band but too new wave… What is needed is Drop The Lime plus Fucked Up with a better vocalist.