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It immediately stirred up feelings of ambivalence.
Prior to deep-diving into this decades-old trend, lets establish parameters.
(This most certainly will happen.)
First up is the patronizing disrespect it thrusts upon its audience.
Do you live in one of these towns?
Guess what: Now youre better than people who dont live in one of these towns.
Next up is the self-aggrandizement that imbues a good number of RnRSaRnR.
Which makes shouting your virtues from the rooftop wholly unnecessary.
And a little awkward.
Theres also an inherent bias to this form of musical self-evaluation.
Rock n roll has not only paid your bills, its made you famous.
Another fatal RnRSaRnR flaw is is thefauxnostalgia in which it often peddles.
Elton John begins Crocodile Rock with the wistful proclamation, I remember when rock was young.
Quality rock music was in no short supply circa 1971, whenLed Zeppelin IVhit record stores.
list, having been penned 20 years after rocks halcyon days.
Built around a precarious and ramshackle foundation, the RnRSaRnR cant help but collapse under its own weight.
As the old screenwriting adage goes, Show, dont tell.
Rock n roll excites and inspires us when it walks the walk, not when it talks the talk.
