Reasons Rock is Better Than Pop and Rap

The Top Ten
1 Pop and rap don't have guitar solos, but rock does

My favorite guitar solos are from "Bad Company" by Five Finger Death Punch, "Bitter Taste" by Three Days Grace, and "Mr. Crowley" by Ozzy Osborne. Everything about pop and rap is trash.

These days pop and rap doesn't even have guitars at all.

Because Guitar Solos are good.

2 Rock is unique
3 Rock musicians work hard to learn instruments

To reiterate on my last point, I just think rock inspires more musicians outside of vocalists. There's a two sided debate as to whether programming music can count as musicianship, or just programming. You're definitely making music at the end of the day. I know there's nothing wrong with it, I use Logic and Cubase all the time to create random compositions. Drum triggers and whatnot are used all the time in metal. I know it is a challenge to make music either way you choose.

Use autotune if you want, I don't care. If it'll encourage you to improve then go for it.

While most of this list is untrue garbage, I agree with this item. Because rock (where instruments are concerned) is more technical, it makes people want to replicate it. I've never heard anyone state that they want to be the guitarist for Britney Spears.

Indeed they do, Rock Stars practice a lot to play their instruments and get better at them when they perform live or if their making a new album. Pop stars just sing with auto tune to a stolen drum beat that's it.

Pop musicians work pretty hard as well. It takes a while to get a melody, enhance vocals, make a beat, put it all together, nail performances through choreography. It's some hard stuff.

4 Rock actually has good lyrics, while pop and rap have trash lyrics

"Animal I have Become" by Three Days Grace is a perfect example of awesome lyrics. "I will not Bow" by Breaking Benjamin is also an example. "All About that Bass" and "Old Town Road" is examples of trashy songs.

Pop and Rap lyrics are just "I got to big butt my big (x3) I poopy doopy woo (x4) I butt the big butt now (x4) I got my butt on my poo". Rock lyrics are more meaningful.

Stairway to Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody have better lyrics than Anaconda and Baby.

This is mostly true even if pop and rap sometimes can have better lyrics of course.

5 Rock singers don't use auto tune

And auto tune doesn't make you talented. The only reason pop songs use auto tune is because they can't sing so they use this to hide their real voice making them sound fake. With rock singers they actually sing and don't need to hide how they actually sing.

I am a fan of rock but I beg to differ on this one

Very rarely they do.

6 You can head bang to rock
7 Some of the best selling artists of all time played rock music

The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd have are all in the top 10 for most records sold.

And rap and pop. Eminem and Taylor Swift are better and sell more than Led Zeppelin and Linkin Park

Didn't Eminem and Taylor Swift sell more than every rock artist ever?

This applys to both rock and pop. I don't see how it is an augrement

8 Rock songs don't get old

Straight Outta Compton is still nice to hear and it's an 80s rap song

Ozzy Osborne is still good after the 80s.

9 Pop and rap fans are more immature than rock fans

Oh right, because the pop and rap fans are the ones that comment on every song ever and talk about how their music taste is superior to that of everyone else's based on the genre of music they listen to. CLEARLY.

I love rock music, but I'm starting to disagree with this, because I've come across a lot of rock/metal fans bashing on other people who don't like what they like.

I can agree and kind of disagree. Every fan is good and bad, but most the time pop and rap is either about partying, sex, or weed.

This isn't a good reason cause immaturity has nothing to do with what music you listen to or prefer

10 Rock music has better, more creative beats than pop and rap

Listen to Surfin Bird by The Beach Boys and you get crap beats. Listen to Stylo by Gorillaz and you'll actually get something good. See? I can cherry pick too!

Listen to Nicki Minaj's stupid hoe and you will see a bunch of crap beats. Listen to AC/DC's Back in Black and you actually get something pretty good.

Surfing bird is a song recorded by " The Trashmen ", not by " The Beach boys ".

The Contenders
11 Pop and rap musicians have no talent, rock musicians have a lot of it

This is just a plain lie. If you actually crawl out from under your rock hole and lisen to some of the cream under the crap, there is a lot of good pop/rap music

I love rock and rap and I like pop but there are talented people in every genre of music.

Right, because Kelly Clarkson has no talent and Creed has talent. *Rolls Eyes*

12 Rock has lots of sub-genres

I think this reason sucks.
Rock: Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Country Rock, Progressive Rock, Heavy Metal, Grunge, Doom Metal, Power Metal, Blues Rock, Alternative Metal, Southern Rock, Grindcore, Punk, Rap Metal, Thrash Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Metalcore, Glam Metal.
Pop/ Rap: Electropop, Alternative Hip Hop, K-pop, J-pop, Trap, Disco, Rap Metal, Pop Rap, Electronic Rap, Southern Hip Hop, Dubstep, Trap Metal, Mumble Rap, Crunkcore, Chopper Rap, East Coast Hip-Hop, West Coast Hip-Hop, Dirty Rap, G-Funk.

Um, so does pop/rap.

13 Rock songs don't have rapping

Well Red Hot Chili Peppers rap as well as Rage Against The Machine and others.

There's an entire genre of rock infused with rap, and ill add its pretty good.

This makes it better so you can understand what they're saying.

Really? I thought that they did! Wow, what great reasoning!

14 The best rock songs are still around today after 40 years while pop and rap are 2-3 years at most

Lose yourself still gets loads of views a day on YouTube and it came out 18 years ago as of writing this comment. - Unnamed Google User Remade

@ProPanda, (I am not saying that rock is better than pop and rap), Goo Goo dolls and Coldplay are rock bands too.both of them are alternative pop, which is a combination of alternative rock and pop, so they are a part of rock music.

"Uptown Funk", "Billie Jean", "Rolling in the Deep", "Happy", "On the Floor", and other pop songs are still around ya know...

Jackson, Goo Goo Dolls, Coldplay I still hear on my radio.

15 Rock is inspirational

Eminem is inspirational

16 Rock can be both loud and soft

Isn't the common assumption the other way around? That rock is loud and that pop is both loud and soft?

So you're saying that "Irvine" by Kelly Clarkson and "Hello" by Adele are extremely loud songs?

So as Rap. Eminem is loud and Drake is soft. We even?

Every genre can.

17 Rock has better band/stage names than pop and rap

You telling me names like Eminem, Gorillaz, Gnarls Barkley, Outkast, and De La Soul aren't cool enough for ya?

So Gorillaz, Twenty One Pilots, Eminem, Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, 2Pac, etc. don't have good names?

Nicki Minaj sounds stupid.
The Beatles sound much better.

Explain your reasoning

18 Rock singers are better than pop and rap singers

Adam Gontier, Matt Walst, David Draiman, Ivan L. Moody, Corey Taylor, Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, and Ozzy Osborne are perfect examples of good rock singers.

Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant, Axl Rose, Bon Scott, and that also includes metal singers like Ronnie James Dio.

Agreed I'd rather hear Steve Perry then The Weeknd or Drake.

I heard this one pop song once and I wanted to tear off my ears.

19 Pop and rap have more annoying fans

Rap fans? White kids pretending to be poets with a " black ghetto " attitude.

People can be annoying no matter what genre they listen to.

Rock fans are pretentious, snobby, and condescending.

All genre have bad fans. All genres have good fans, okay?

20 Rock singers have a large vocal range

Mike Patton, Corey Taylor, Ville valo and many others

21 Rock lyrics contain less profanity

Most the time it's true. Sometimes they cuss by accident.

22 Rock has drum solos
23 Rock has good guitar riffs

"No Sudden Movement" by Five Finger Death Punch, "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osborne, "Pain", "Riot", "Break", "Chalk Outline", and "Infa-Red" by Three Days Grace are perfect examples of good guitar riffing.

24 Rock is innovative
25 Rock has improved while pop music has declined
BAdd New Item