What the fuck is a rockist?

what the fuck is a rockist?

basically
his dude right
he likes rock music
and not other genres

A rock fanboy that, as fanboys do, loses sight of critical thinking with the topic since his love for it blinds him. Expect a rockist to do such things as trying to impose rock logic to other genres (why does this single-oriented genre doesn't produce triple conceptual albums?), for instance.
It's mostly harmless except for the times in which the mindset becomes a widespread phenomenon (example: the pathetic "Disco sucks" campaigns decades ago)

It was created as a way to describe people who enjoy rock music above all else. The people who created replaced it with something called "poptamism" which states that rap and pop music is equal to or better than rock. And so they replaced the idea of blind rockism with blind poptamism.
Poptamism itself is just consumer capitalism hidden under a thin veil of being socially progressive.
Poptamism is a very neoliberal idea, cheering on the winners, thinking that consuming a product is the same as political action

Rock music was killed by capitalism because it didnt make it enough profit

The hipsters and tastemakers created this warped world were corporate mediocrity is cheered on and if you dont like it youre a rockist!
And thats basically what happend to music in the 2010's

rock isn't any less corporate and mediocre

it is tho

rock autist

The battlecry of an autistic rapist

sort of like "rap fans".

rock music was based on authenticity and artistry.
Pop music is a disposable product meant to extract wealth from retards.

We live in a capitalist system. P4k starts promoting rap and pop to get clicks to make money. They get bought out by a giant corporation.

Capitalism is what kills art and turns it into a commodity

Are you hearing this shit?

Rock is literally pop music lmao

Most rock isn't, especially anymore. However, pretty much everything he said is 100% true. Not all rock is pop/poptimist, but all who call people "rockists" seriously are poptimists with no self-awareness on that front.

Dad rockers that still find the need to talk about Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd every chance they get.

Somebody argue this tho

Like any fanboyism. So yeah, that includes rap one

The correct term is “Hiphopheads”

Actually this is a perfect example of rockism and how idiotic it is.

Rock is capitalist too. There's nothing inherently authentic about rock music. It's a pose like anything else. Even punk revolved around fashion.

>”art music” for art
>pop music for monetary gain

You think Mozart and Beethoven did it for free?

punk was anti fashion. It just got commedfied like everything else in this hell system

The Sex Pistols were only notable because they showcased Vivienne Westwood's shit. Plastic Bertrand was purely manufactured and didn't write or perform his own music. Crust punk stuff is fashion more than anything else. If you want something "authentic" and "pure" you should listen exclusively to contemporary classical or something; everything else is a commodity. Pop isn't any worse than anything else.

Classical music largely wasn't motivated by sales, though. Pieces might be written for certain purposes (church music or whatever) but they're not pandering to an audience or competing for popularity.

Obviously they didn't but the primary goal of pop music is to sell, it's consumerist in nature. Art music... not so much.