What is rock and roll of the 21st century? – 26/07/2018

Rock is (or was) against parents. It was a fundamental precept from birth. Rock was the music that they would never listen to or dance to. And that represented a world in which parents – and their concept of order, predictability, progress and so on. – could never enter. The later ideals (peace, love, free love, the struggle against the established, the expansion of consciousness by legal or illegal methods) were only used in the past. to continue to make the difference, digging the crack

. of the preceding paragraph begins in the decade of the 50s and is the twentieth century. Because, by logic, rock has grown and its composers, performers and audience have grown with it. And those who fought with their parents in some cases are already great-grandparents.

Mick Jagger filled this Thursday 75 years. Clarín's note about him made a fabulous list: about 360 million dollars in his bank account, 26 studio albums at the head of the Rolling Stones, 4 solo albums and three others in collaboration with D & B. Other artists, four arrests, eight children of five different women, five grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Many, too, for a man who first wanted to retire at age 33 and after that age said that it would horrify to see himself at age 45 Satisfaction .

Well, it's as if his partner Keith Richards was saying: The Rolling Stones were still there. "And yes, there are very few who read this note (or listen to Stones) and surpbad them in age.The" they were always there "means so much that they are part of our life as a postcard of the state that took things: what was revolutionary and dangerous in the 60s today becomes a small stamp, in the best case, or simple muzak at worst [19659002] This rebirth effect is reinforced by Paul McCartney (Beatles, the clbadic rival Stone, yin and yang rock and roll) who also plays Thursday at The Caverne, Liverpool, where it all started. (Paul, at age 76, still promoting his albums personally!) Traversing again at the corner of Abbey Road, although I'm not barefoot but with sandals.Sign of the Times

Here in Argentina, we celebrate Charly Garcia and his sweets 66. The industry awards its latest album Random with the Golden Gardel and the public runs tickets in minutes in each theater that is presented. But, of course, Charly is not a rock against the parents either. Wise, ironic, self-critical, two of his own songs explain it: Vice ("I am a vice more, in your life I am a vice more") and I am your father a theme of the return of Sui generis (it's in the album Behind the walls 2001).

So, if rock is an older gentleman who accompanies us and does not fight us, where do we find them? today the edge, the generational confrontation?

If we look for the music side, it is likely that hip hop and its derivatives are a possible answer. Many of us think that the reggaetón and the trap sound horrible, that they are basic in their musicality and structure and that their lyrics are frightening, scatological, badist or discriminatory (or all the variants together). But is not it the same thing these fathers of the '50s used to say in front of the Rock 24 hours a day or the badually explicit songs of Chuck Berry?

Maybe we do not have to look for the music side and the differences are in the digital universe. And children choose not to watch the same series as their parents (never on TV, always on celu, of course). Or give uses to the phone that we could never. Maybe the digital divide is 21st century rock and roll. But yes, and please, avoid the "all the past was better". Even the old burglar Mick Jagger did not allow it.