Roger Daltrey says rock is DEAD while rap thrives and pop is ‘meaningless’
THE WHO’S Roger Daltrey has proclaimed that rock has hit a “dead end”, saying that the music genre has nothing new to say.
Roger Daltrey has spoken about the state of rock music
Singer Roger, 72, said that while rock appeared to have died a death, rap was the only music form that was still relevant.
On top of that the rocker said that pop music too had nothing
“The sadness for me is that rock has reached a dead end… the only people saying things that matter are there tappers and most pop is meaningless and forgettable,” he said in a recent interview.
“You watch these people and you can’t remember a b****y thing,” he went on to tell The Times Magazine.
He was speaking ahead of The Who’s performance at the festival Desert Trip in California as the band goes on tour five decades after they got together.
The bank is currently in the middle of the Back to the Who Tour 51! which is set to ending in April next year.
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Roger Daltrey says that pop music is now meaningless
You watch these people and you can’t remember a b****y thing,
Their latest tour is seen as continuation of their previous one last year.
Roger also spoke about his voice as he prepared to take a flight from the Coachella Festival to a concert in Mexico City.
“I’ve got three-and-a-half hours on a plane to get to a polluted city where everyone smokes and it’s a singer’s nightmare,” he explained.
The Who are again on tour five decades after first forming
His comments come only a week after he and fellow bandmate Pete Townshend shared a previously unreleased track from 1965 called The Girls I Could Have Had.
The Girls I Could Have Had is one of three unreleased tracks that will be included in a remastered super deluxe edition of The Who’s debut album, My Generation.
The song was made as a demo by Pete Townshend in his Chesham Place flat.