Top 10 Reasons Why Rock Music is Better Than Pop
Yep, this is true. In rock, playing a guitar hurts your fingers, and playing many notes is not easy. The same goes for the bass, and drumming takes a lot more than just hitting some sticks on a drum. Rock singers also write their own songs and don't have millions of producers writing for them. Also, rock singers have more raw singing voices, and most of them can sing live without backup singers.
Yeah, that's right. Not hating on pop music here, they use instruments too. But how often do you see a pop group with four dudes rocking the stage out while focusing on the instruments, which is really hard?
Rock is already hard to record with all the complex guitar riffs and heavy drumming, let alone doing that stuff live in front of a crowd.
Not all pop today sucks, but many pop songs do. I am sick of hearing that house noise in many mainstream songs. It sounds awful. The vocals are so autotuned, and the songs are boring. There is little to no emotion in pop songs. The top charts suck. They don't know what music is actually good. Some pop just takes an attractive singer, produces songs for them, and they sing with autotune. Then they cash in much more money than rock singers. But some pop actually requires musical talent and vocals.
One day, I decided to wear my Led Zeppelin shirt to school because it was new, and I love the band. I wanted to test if anyone knew Zeppelin, because by today's standards, it's "old" music. No one knew except one person. Even my friend asked, "Who's that?"
The point is, some people can't tell quality music. Chainsmokers haven't made a good song ever, but Zeppelin were legends. So were Queen, The Beatles, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Killers, and so on.
Rock singers sing with their actual voices on stage. What's the point of going to a pop concert where singers lip-sync most of the time?
Those who listen to pop have a hard time coping with reality, as almost everything they listen to is fake.
Agree when it comes to male singers.
Not recently, but some of the greatest female singers ever are in pop music. One thing for sure, rock is more demanding. After all, with the exception of Steven Tyler, whose voice is intact, rock singers lose their pipes sooner.
Pop artists can sing for much longer.
Some pop singers do write their own songs. However, rock bands write better lyrics most of the time.
Listen to Blink-182's I Miss You - that song has amazing lyrics, as well as American Idiot by Green Day.
Max Martin and Lukas Gottwald wrote most modern pop for the last few years. They've written for Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Jessie J, P!nk, Justin Timberlake, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding, Robin Thicke, etc.
Whereas Nirvana's In Utero album was written entirely by Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic.
At least rock singers can sing, and at least rock music isn't just a few lazily sung lines repeated over and over again with some crappy electronic music added in the background. That's basically what pop music is.
I have to point out, though, that not all pop music is talentless and meaningless. There are still a few great pop singers out there today.
These days they are mostly lip-syncing and using autotune to make music. But Rock/Metal takes real skills. You can see it by how the vocals change.
Some pop songs have good lyrics, but most of them are about sex and partying. Rock has more variety when it comes to lyrics.
Some bands actually make songs that relate to you.
Rock tells you that everything is not okay, but you have to move on, while pop tells you everything is fine when it's not.
Rock always includes something motivational, while pop often includes superficial content.
I 100% agree with you. I'm always practicing fighting with rock music on, and it just gets me pumped up every time, whether I'm practicing fighting or not.
Yes, like Chester Bennington's suffering, for example. He endured a lot, including abuse as a child, bullying, and the loss of his close friend.
The lyrics in rock music are based on real feelings the vocalist might have experienced. Pop music focuses on how a person looks and that they're perfect and people should worship them. The lyrics in pop mean nothing but teach people that partying, drugs, and alcohol are the right morals to follow.
The fact that rock is better is because pop is commercial. That doesn't mean that if a band plays pop, it has to have horrible lyrics with no meaning (like cliché love songs, parties, etc.). A pop band can tell deep stories, but it's very rare. This is because those who decide to play pop just want to make money.
So, money equals songs about what common people want to hear about. Therefore, stupid songs.
Hard rock, soft rock, alternative rock, heavy metal, pop rock, experimental rock, emo, new wave, punk rock, hardcore punk, shoegaze, post-rock, thrash metal, power metal, groove metal, doom metal, crust punk, pop-punk, skate punk, ska punk, grunge, Britpop (don't let the "pop" in the name mislead you), folk rock, nu-metal, industrial rock, rap rock, post-punk, post-grunge, post-Britpop, black metal, death metal, Madchester, blues rock, jazz rock, progressive rock, progressive metal, psychedelic rock, gothic rock, etc.
This is the closest to "it's more diverse" I found on this list. But it's true. Not to say anything about the quality (although my opinion on that is also clear), but the fact stands that rock music has a lot more to offer in terms of lyrics, song structures, and the atmosphere of the songs than pop does. That's why I personally find rock music astonishing.
I am a girl, and I am not letting pop brainwash me. The mainstream tries to impress girls by hiring so-called "hot" guys to sing in autotune like One Direction and Justin Bieber, and produce annoying songs. I don't even find the guys attractive, and honestly, those boy pop bands that try to impress girls suck. So many girls in my school are obsessed with Justin Bieber.
I love pop and rock, but this is correct. Girls are getting brainwashed by pop. It is so ridiculous how many girls are getting brainwashed by pop.
I'm a girl, but I like rock and roll better.
Kanye West is not a god! Kanye "not the best" West mistakenly thought he himself was Jimi Hendrix, who is the real god of all music!
Rock and roll is the new rap!
To be honest, I enjoy pop! I really do. But this is an item I can agree with. I love these two bands.
They have fantastic lyrics and are certainly better than most modern pop lyrics today.
Not just Queen and Zeppelin. There are thousands of rock bands that will make Justin Bieber and Kanye West give up with just one listen.
Rock and metal actually have a community. People who like it are generally part of the "rock and metal community."
Pop doesn't really have a community. There are just people who listen to it.
Especially Beliebers and Directioners.
All I know about rock music is you don't need to soften your voice. Instead, you must deepen your voice to sing, while pop music requires you to have a soft voice.
No wonder pop music needs auto-tune. It is actually hard to follow the notes of a song using a soft voice.
I think auto-tune would be a good idea for some metal bands who could use it to make their growls and screams louder. And louder means better!
Auto-tune is essentially what keeps pop alive, along with the people who think it is actually good music.
I don't see a lot of rock commercials nowadays, but I see plenty of pop advertisements. But I do have to admit, rock was advertised at some point.
This is so true. We went from bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Rolling Stones to BTS, Doja Cat, and Justin Bieber. Like what?
Okay, it is mostly corporate (Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus are big examples), but not all of it is. Rock was the same thing at one point.
Most pop is simple-minded. Drake's new hit "Hotline Bling" doesn't even have a meaning. Drake only added that in the lyrics because it's catchy, which I think is stupid.
Fifty years on, people still listen to The Beatles. Do you honestly think that people will be listening to Justin Bieber's songs a decade from now? Probably not.
Back in Black: released 39 years ago, still as good as the day it came out, if not better.
Shape of You: released 2 years ago, died after 2 months.
This is true. I even talked to one of my classmates about this, and he admitted that the only reason he listens to rap is that everyone else in the school likes it.
People only like the music because it's popular. I like music whether it's popular or not.
I agree with this reason. This is basically the same thing with hip-hop's popularity.
Nobody can escape it. It's everywhere you go. In my school, people say that I am listening to unpopular music. They say listen to pop music because it's popular.
Metal/rock music is underground music. The term underground means uncommercial or non-mainstream.
Pop music is mainstream, and mainstream means popular or commercial.
It is. All people care about now is rubbish like Ed Sheeran. He's really bad.
I'm a big fan of rock (hard rock and punk rock mostly), and all I can say is that this is 99.9% true. Metal has darker parts that some of you shouldn't explore, like satanic and brutal themes.
But pop music has more bad lessons to offer.
Considering the themes of these pop songs today, and as a die-hard rock fan, I can agree with this. I have done nothing bad related to my taste in music.
Metal artists aren't actually Satanists. They just want to be edgy. Tom Araya from Slayer is actually Catholic. In pop, however, they actually do lots of drugs and have lots of sex.
Here is an example: Blink-182 isn't known for being the most handsome-looking, but for their music. Even though some rock artists can be attractive, rock is really about music, not looks. One Direction and Justin Bieber are only famous for their looks.
YES! One of my friends keeps saying that all these pop people she listens to are hot or something, but when I show her the members of the bands I listen to, she always has something to say like, "Ew, he looks so old, how could you listen to an old guy like that?" (That was about Beau Bokan of Blessthefall.)
Or she compares them to her own. "Okay, fine, you might think Chris Roe-whatever is good or whatever, but Harry Styles is a lot hotter." It's so dumb.
Yes, it's true that rock music generally has more feeling than pop music. I'm an 18-year-old teenage girl, but I listen to artists and bands like My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne, Paramore, Panic! at the Disco, Nirvana, Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, and many more. Most teenagers nowadays are more interested in pop. I always get annoyed by the sound of it.
Look, I understand that some of the songs sung by Taylor Swift or Adele are emotional, but rock is much more emotional than their songs. I like emo, punk, metal, grunge, and alternative rock. I like listening to depressive music. Most people say that rock music is satanic, but I don't believe that at all. Just listen to My Chemical Romance, and you will know how emotional their songs are.
St. Anger isn't too bad. (Look up Nickelback's Too Bad, and you'll get the pun.) However, Justin Timberlake's music is not good, and you shouldn't like it.
St. Anger is still a crappy album, and there are many rock and pop albums that are actually better than that garbage.
Michael Jackson was called disco when I was young (I'm 55 years old) and disco was considered anti-rock. His title as "King of Pop" came later, and in my opinion, he didn't deserve it.
About singers like Beyoncé and Madonna, I don't even want to talk. LONG LIVE ROCK!
And Michael is the only one of them that isn't boring!
That's right. In pop, it just sounds like robots singing kind of slow. A good song with heavy riffs and guitar solos is the way to go.
Exactly why I always play Eruption turned up way beyond 11 to ruin pop lovers' experiences listening to pop out loud!
Nothing compares to a good guitar solo.
Music is music. A lot of people, like me, listen to music to enjoy it for the music rather than the lyrics. Marilyn Manson's songs are great, but I dislike the lyrics.
There are many bands I like but dislike the lyrical content because I'm Christian.
I am Christian, and Marilyn Manson is one of my favorite bands.
Even Bohemian Rhapsody has repetitiveness. Come on.