thats my point they dont care what people call them they just want to make pepole happy through their music: even if it is pop [which it isn't].
not all music has to be about challanging the governmnet and systems of aurthority; it be there just to make people fell good and make people not think about all the crap that goes on in the world, especially at the moment.
like rob thomas, the singer in matchbox twenty [another soft rock band] said, 'we are nothing special at all, but we write songs and you people come and listen to our songs, and thats all that matters. i swear to god i would do it for free'.
that brings up another point. musicians my just make music because that is what they like to do. if they decide to make music that isn't heavy metal, what is wrong with that, it is jsut different. and if they decide to make soft rock music and are successful they won't care, because that is what they like to do with their lives.
But you said before they only cared about selling records; which, like I said, is about as opposite from rock as you can get. I never said that all music had to be about challenging the government and systems of authority. As much as I like political music, even I need to get away from society occasionally and just sorta tune out if you know what I mean. I listen to music that isn't metal. But Maroon 5 is just another fish in a growing sea of pop rock bands. You said before that they only care about selling records, no matter what they're labelled as, which is just the same as Britney and Beyonce and other pop crap like that. Either you were mistaken in your statement, or you admit that they aren't rock.
i didn't say that all music had to be about "**** the system' or teenage rebellion, or whatever--but that's what rock music was born in the 50s and continued to until the 80s where mediocre song writing and power ballads infected the landscape. Then some bands decided to go straight to the power ballads and not even make their attempts at rock music. These are the Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20s of the world. Maroon 5 is just another step in the pop rock phenomenon.
No, it doesn't, but I don't like their music. EB was correct in saying that "pop" has become too much of a swear word. Not all pop is bad, especially older stuff. There are a couple pop rock bands that are good, and some lesser known pop singers that are good as well. Annie Lennox, for example--she's got an incredible voice, is a pop singer, but hasn't given in to the crap going on in the music world. Same with Enya.
I have nothing against pop or pop rock, if the person is actually talented. I just don't like Maroon 5's music.
Question:
Soem of you said that pop and soft rock are the same thing, so then why are is there two instead of one, even like at sam goody they have a section for pop and a section for soft rock
the pop section is filled with, britney christina, bsb, justin etc
soft rock is filled with maroon 5, the strokes, carlos sntana, matchbox 20
i see difference.
Ok, here's the deal. To somebody who listens to true rock, the kind of stuff that they would never play on MTV or anything... soft rock is pop. Like I explained before, rock is about being anti-establishment... Soft rock isn't. To people who listen to pop, bands like Maroon 5 and Matchbox are rock. Soft rock is a pop sub-genre. As I have also said before, there's nothing wrong with pop in and of itself. There are some pop rock bands that I like, but I don't deny that they're pop.
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