Why is it impossible to create a great Rock and Roll song

According to statistics, the song "Stairway to Heaven" gets played on a radio station somewhere in the world every two minutes.

It is apparent that it is becoming increasingly difficult to compose a rock and roll composition that will remain popular in the next decades. Why is it so?

Some argue that everything was invented a long time ago and that what is being done now is basically just a recycling concept that was mostly created in the second part of the twentieth century.

Others argue that in recent decades, music has been diluted into strong directions and sub-directions that, on the one hand, serve to highlight a specific musical genre, but in practice, everything is mixed with everything like never before, and even that which does not go together at all, all with the goal of some kind of originality and uniqueness, which is essentially an end in itself.

Perhaps one of the most pivotal instances that rendered the concept of music useless in terms of past valuation was the appearance of global MTV television, which mandated "viewing" music to a large extent so that what we see suddenly became more important than what we listen to.

Many rock tunes made half a century ago are still liked today, whether because of all of this or something else. And that's not all.

In the absence of originality, so-called "cover versions" appear everywhere. The repurposing of other people's ideas and ideas has become more obvious in recent decades than ever before.

According to statistics, the composition "Stairway to Heaven" is broadcast on several radio stations around the world every two minutes.

This is not surprising, because Led Zeppelin demonstrated how humanity attempted to immediately "purchase the stairway to heaven," not by delving into the alchemy of knowledge, but by simply employing acquired facts.

" Yesterday " is one of the most depressing, romantic, and well-known songs in history. It is unquestionably one of the most "processed" pieces. This song has approximately 2500 different versions.

" Satisfaction " is a tune that depicts sexual estrangement in a way that has not previously been heard in popular music. The Stones were already on an American tour at the time it was televised for the first time, and that composition catapulted them to an entirely new level.

"Satisfaction" will undoubtedly leave an indelible impact on them, and its message is even more poignant now.

Why is it almost impossible to create such a great song today?

The absence of a group, at least in the sense that the group functioned during the period when the above-described compositions were formed, appears to me to be the key factor (in addition to those already indicated).

Bands worked in a very different way back then. All members worked hard to ensure that their common name would be successful and endure.

Often, the entire group retired from public view and rented residences in the countryside, where they lived as a family.

All of this resulted in an almost dreamlike creative chemistry between the musicians, which, interestingly, frequently occurred on the line between guitarist and singer.

It's worth noting that even the so-called "house composers," or those in charge of writing songs for certain publishing companies' exclusives, typically worked in pairs. Today, such a community is becoming increasingly rare, if not non-existent.

And there are none because anybody who rises over the average quickly believes he is a big boss. A boss who will hire and pay the most respected artists to perform on his records and performances while keeping the lion's share of the profits for himself.

And the "greatest" musicians simply sit and practice, ready to respond like loaded guns to any summons, even if the cost is frequently humiliating. As a result, the creative chemistry of connection has almost vanished. And the new things we hear are sometimes clichéd, if not uninteresting. As much production as was washed was killed.

We can only hope that, after all of this, a new quality in music will emerge, a value that will bring many things to a halt and then shake the world in the same way that the invention of the electric guitar once did.

Post by Bryan C.