I understand that pop and rap are more successful than rock these days, but why has rock declined so much in the western world and is rarely discussed on boards like this?

Is it because pop music consists of individual pop stars and image instead of a band of four or five, is it because rock artists don't do anything interesting, or is it because pop and rap stars are more likely to sell out to the mainstream?

Discuss.

Rock is too splintered nowadays, and there's no real universal rock community, like there are for other genres.

"Rock" is a very broad term. I also wouldn't say pop and rap are more successful, as some of the most critically acclaimed music of the past decade have been from indie bands. You're on a Top 40-centric board, so pop/electronic/dance music is the most ubiquitous among these users' tastes.

If you see a "decline," it's only because of where you're looking.

It's because rock is a huge genre. There won't be a rock community but an alt, indie, metal and so on. While pop while large too is still very tied together. And this is a pop forum.

This is a pop forum

But I think the reason to why rock has seemed to disappear because it has gone on to other subgenres like indie and alternative

1- You're on a top 40 forum
2- You're on a top 40 forum full of geighs. Geighs aren't the biggest fans of rock.

Modern rock bands and artists aren't that interesting imo

That's not a fair generalization. I love rock and most of the gay people I was raised with listened to PUNK so like......back to the BOX with you.

Cuz its a pop forum.? POP FORUM. POP FORUM. POP FORUM.

Because it's a pop forum, not a rock one.

Pop music is by far more popular than rock with gay people.

As atrlster said, the rock community is "splintered". Especially in the past decade or so, thanks to the Internet, there's been a lot of musical fragmentation. It means everybody can more easily discover their own music, and in the rock world, it's meant there's been fragmentation, and there's no longer one particular sub-genre or band that's popular enough to compete with the mainstream.

Also, what other posters have said, this is a pop forum, so pop music will primarily be discussed here. And rap, dance, hip hop, R&B, electronica, etc. have many ties to the pop world these days that rock music simply just doesn't have.

It is pretty much cause this is a pop forum. There are quite a few of us who love rock music, but there is far more people who enjoy pop music.

Well Indie rock is pretty popular on here but that's about it. Plus there really aren't any good real rock bands out anymore to even talk about. I believe that Rock finally died in around 2005-2007.

I'm gay and I love tons of rock/punk/alt/goth artists. Jack Off Jill, Within Temptation, The Birthday Massacre, September Mourning, AFI, Amanda Palmer, Breaking Benjamin, MCR the list goes on.