In the 70s lynard skynard was southern rock. The Beatles were British invasion. The byrds were psychedelic. Pink Floyd was prog. By the 80s-90s they were all classic rock. What makes you think the same thing won’t happen to prodigy and Linkin park?
This post is giving strong “old man yells at cloud” vibes.
Correct: all those rock subgenres from a certain era got lumped together as ‘rock circa this era.’ Things not resembling rock from that era do not qualify. Including things from that era, not resembling rock.
The label having a synonym for old is not carte blanche to slap it on whatever is old, now. By the 80s-90s, classic rock still did not include disco. Or country. Or spacey electronic nonsense. And it never should. Time paved over the fuzzy distinction between early heavy metal and rock & roll, but even that enlumpening didn’t just shove both under an existing label. At some point, the term “classic rock” was new.
Calling Linkin Park classic rock is like insisting Imagine Dragons is nu-metal… because it’s new, and metal. It’s wrong on three counts.
In the 70s lynard skynard was southern rock. The Beatles were British invasion. The byrds were psychedelic. Pink Floyd was prog. By the 80s-90s they were all classic rock. What makes you think the same thing won’t happen to prodigy and Linkin park?
This post is giving strong “old man yells at cloud” vibes.
Correct: all those rock subgenres from a certain era got lumped together as ‘rock circa this era.’ Things not resembling rock from that era do not qualify. Including things from that era, not resembling rock.
The label having a synonym for old is not carte blanche to slap it on whatever is old, now. By the 80s-90s, classic rock still did not include disco. Or country. Or spacey electronic nonsense. And it never should. Time paved over the fuzzy distinction between early heavy metal and rock & roll, but even that enlumpening didn’t just shove both under an existing label. At some point, the term “classic rock” was new.
Calling Linkin Park classic rock is like insisting Imagine Dragons is nu-metal… because it’s new, and metal. It’s wrong on three counts.