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GENE SIMMONS Once Again Claims 'Rock Is Dead', Praises 'Fantastic' BILLIE EILISH And LADY GAGA



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KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons has doubled down on his previous remarks that rock is dead, saying that "new bands haven't taken the time to create glamor, excitement and epic stuff."

While rock 'n' roll has been king of the music world for decades, in the past few years, it's been unseated by the growing popularity of hip-hop. This has caused many pundits to proclaim the genre "dead" from an industry perspective, noting that it has been eclipsed in all measures by pop, hip-hop, and EDM.

Simmons spoke about rock's supposed diminishing status during a recent interview with Gulf News. Addressing the whole "rock is dead" debate, Gene said: "Rock is dead. And that's because new bands haven't taken the time to create glamor, excitement and epic stuff. I mean, FOO FIGHTERS is a terrific band, but that's a 20-year-old band. So you can go back to 1958 until 1988. That's 30 years. During that time, we had Elvis [Presley], THE BEATLES, Jimi Hendrix, ROLLING STONES, on and on. In disco, you had Madonna, and then you had your hard rock, you had AC/DC, maybe us, a few others. Motown, all that great music. From 1988, until today, that's more than 30 years. Tell me who the new BEATLES is. You can't. There are popular bands. BTS is very popular. All kinds of bands are very popular. That doesn't mean iconic and legacy and for all time. It's different."

Asked if he thinks time will tell if some acts are going to be iconic in another 30 years, Simmons replied: "I doubt it. Because the singularity that was THE BEATLES is a band that wrote their own songs, arranged it themselves, produced it themselves, mostly played all their own instruments. No backing tracks. No digital enhancement. No vocal correctness. Yeah, not gonna happen again. You know, the modern artists rely so much on technology. You may not be able to recognize the artist if they record themselves singing in the shower. You'd be shocked. And none of the rappers play instruments. Don't write songs. They write words. But chords, melodies, harmonies and stuff. It doesn't mean that rap isn't important. It's very important. But it ain't THE BEATLES."

Simmons went on to say that he loves all the contemporary pop artists. "I think Billie Eilish is fantastic," he said. "She's interesting because she and her brother actually write the material and are unique to themselves. Lady Gaga is fantastic in the female category. She writes her own material, she can sing like nobody's business. But she actually is a musician, writes her own songs, plays piano, she can actually do that. The rest of the world reacts to a lot of the pop divas, although mostly they don't write their own songs and can't play an instrument. And by the way, that's okay, too. It doesn't matter what you like. But it ain't THE BEATLES."

The "rock is dead" argument has popped up again and again throughout the years, including in 2018 after MAROON 5 lead singer Adam Levine told Variety magazine that "rock music is nowhere, really. I don't know where it is," he said. "If it's around, no one's invited me to the party. All of the innovation and the incredible things happening in music are in hip-hop. It's better than everything else. Hip-hop is weird and avant-garde and flawed and real, and that's why people love it."

A few years ago, Simmons told Esquire magazine that "rock did not die of old age. It was murdered. Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed and now it won't because it's that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs. No one will pay you to do it."

A number of hard rock and heavy metal musicians have weighed in on the topic in a variety of interviews over the last several years, with some digging a little deeper into Simmons's full remarks and others just glossing over the headl

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4 янв 2021
В конце статьи только каминг-аута не хватает.
4 янв 2021
bodomofeel, да это вопрос времени, когда он скажет что любит блэк митол и всегда был фанатом mayhem
4 янв 2021
Согласен с Джином, хоть он и носит парик, а единственный реальный хит у Кисс - авторства Десмонда Чайлда. И это нормально. Но это не The BEATLES
4 янв 2021
>единственный реальный хит у Кисс - авторства Десмонда Чайлда

Один только альбом "Destroyer" уделывает весь каталог Queen или Deep Purple.
4 янв 2021
Жирно очень жирно давай еще про queen
4 янв 2021
не ну так то Кисс крутые до сольников, а дальше уже не то.
4 янв 2021
>Один только альбом "Destroyer" уделывает весь каталог Queen или Deep Purple.


А ты смешной. Опять галоперидол в унитаз спустил, пока санитар не видел?
4 янв 2021
Языкатый балабол
4 янв 2021
Старческая деменция, а он опять таблетки посеял
4 янв 2021
один только альбом "колхозный панк" уделывает половину той хуйни, что позаписывала эта четверка блэкарей
4 янв 2021
>Один только альбом "Destroyer" уделывает весь каталог Queen или Deep Purple.
Вот без шуток, тебя хоть сколько-нибудь цепляет этот мертвый и сухой поп звук?
5 янв 2021
Одна только песня "Что такое осень" уделывает всю зарубежную рок-музыку (c) фанат Шевчука
5 янв 2021
Один альбом "Восставший из Ада" от Сектора Газа уделыват все альт метал группы нулевых и девяностых
5 янв 2021
>Один только альбом "Destroyer" уделывает весь каталог Queen или Deep Purple.
Да Пол Стенли просто не умеет петь.
5 янв 2021
>THE BEATLES... Это группа, которая сочиняла свои собственные песни, сама делала к ним аранжировки, занималась продюсирование

Во шизоид. Хотя если считать Мартина участником группы, то все верно
5 янв 2021
Один только ,,белые розы’’ Лаского Мая уделывает все рок баллады в истории
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