He's dead, Jim.
[Bleeding Fool] Shock rocker Marilyn Manson may have been rather tame and boring in hindsight. But in retrospect, it turns out that he did make at least one true observation.
Rock and roll is in fact dead. And it died right around the time he was singing about its demise.
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll be familiar with Cultural Ground Zero theory.
In its simplest terms, Ground Zero was the point before which consumers of pop culture product could expect each new release to be better than the last. And by definition, it was the point after which declining quality no longer justified that expectation.
The downward trend affected every medium from live action movies to anime to music. And it hit right around 1997.
Veteran session musician and producer Rick Beato has provided foundational insights for the development of Ground Zero theory. Here, he diagrams a perfect storm of greed, corruption, and cowardice to answer Manson’s implied question: Who killed rock and roll?
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