There are no rules in rock-and-roll, except for maybe these two: It is good for bands to be ambitious, and it is good for audiences to be skeptical of those ambitions. It’s been one of rock’s animating frictions across a 75-year transformation from ecstatic counterculture to corporatized mass culture to the slow-dying digital mystery culture that we struggle to make sense of today. There’s probably still plenty of meaning to be generated in that chasm between drive and doubt — but we barely feel it anymore because today’s bands aren’t very ambitious and today’s audiences aren’t very skeptical.
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