When it comes to rock music, it appears that rock artists themselves cannot agree whether it is still thriving, or already dead. They cannot even agree if rock music going mainstream is good or not. Some said rock music is supposed to be NOT that alive...not that mainstream, anyway. One of them is Alice Cooper.
Kiss' Gene Simmons declared in 2014 that rock music's era has come to an end, and since then, musicians and fans have debated whether or not this is accurate. Some argued Gene Simmons simply has not realized that rock music already transformed, and he's just living in the past.
Alice Cooper is among the several individuals who have weighed in on the subject. Cooper says in a new interview with LA Weekly that he agrees with Simmons that the genre has entered a new period, but not in the same sense.
In fact, he believes that rock music's lack of mainstream success is making the genre more rebellious, as it was when he was younger. This is good - rock stars need to be outlaws.
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"Well, you've got your certain bands- you know, Foo Fighters still going. Green Day, things like that. I kind of look at this a little bit differently. There was a time when we first started playing, that rock bands were outlaws" he explains. "We were on the outside looking into the party and we weren't invited to the party. It was more pop music and dance music and disco. I think we're back to that point. I think it's kind of healthy that rock bands now are not number one, number two or number three. We're back to the point of being rebels again," he added.
Cooper responds to Simmons' "rock is dead" remark by stating that he partially agrees, but only in a commercial sense. He said Gene Simmons must be pertaining to the fact rock is no longer selling, but rock is still thriving, especially at kids' garages.
"I think there are kids in garages right now learning Guns N' Roses, learning Aerosmith, learning Alice, learning Ozzy... Young 16 year old kids rocking, just rocking." For him, this is really healthy and a sign that even if rock music is no longer commanding the cash in, it will never die. He added that those in a hard rock band, "can go as long as" they want to go.
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