The day rock n'roll died.

You want to be depressed?  Try listening to a rock station nowadays.

All the music is basically whining about lost loves or something equally as pathetic such as nostalgia about lost loves.  There's a time and place for everything, but when did rock lose its balls?  Did it happen when some right-wing pundits started using the hardcore stuff, leaving everybody else with the pussified droppings that is now Top 40 rock?  Seriously, if I hear Kid Rock whining again to another '70s hit, I'm going to scream.

Seriously, rock is falling down that precipice of Bigotry Rock, the type of music that enforces a lifestyle instead of representing one.  A good case for this is modern-day country:  if you listen to enough of it (please do not do this without some heavy medication), you see that it enforces the nuclear family lifestyle and the idea of the unintelligent man.  Every single song is about fidelity and overly tight Rustler jeans trying to deal with disappointment.  But it doesn't reflect reality, it enforces it:  how many gay country songs do you know that are played on normal radio?  It repeats the same thing over and over again.  It's symbolic of a fable:  if you cheat, you get punished.  If you disrespect the 'American culture' of fidelity, repressed emotions, and accept the constant disappointments of life, you will be part of the American Mass, a sort of gestalt entity of disappointment and dread eased by the understanding that you're better off dead.  It's a rigid lifestyle that the music helps enforce.  I feel like I'm repeating myself here.

And Rock is going the same way.  It's not all about sex, but it assumes the relationships formed to deal with the 'taboo' of sex are sacrosact.  It's not even fun to listen to anymore.  It seems geared towards either empathizing with the pathetic or creating a gateway to the pathetic.  I would be more exact but I think I need to think about this more. 

In any case, it just irritates me that music stations are pushing this shit that depresses us.  Pop music has always been seen as the Other, but that Other seems to be more upbeat and passionate compared to the flaccidity of rock.