ROB ZOMBIE: "El grunge propició el ascenso del rap""Rob Zombie insiste en que sería imposible llevar a cabo un festival como el "Download" en los EE.UU. -, porque en los 90 la explosión del grunge dejo una herida profunda en la escena del rock al otro lado del Atlántico."
Y culpa al movimiento que salio de Seattle de abrir la puerta del mainstream a la música rap.
Zombie dijo a "TeamRock Radio": "Cuando el grunge golpeó con Nirvana y todo eso, todo el mundo pensaba que era genial ser un anti-rock-star. Ellos mismos como un tipo de estrellas del anti-rock se estrellaron en la misma puerta - porque los chicos del rap entraron y dijeron: "A la mierda. Seremos las estrellas del rock si vosotros vais a usar camisas de franela y agachar la cabeza mirando los pies".
La música rock en EE.UU. nunca se ha recuperado de eso. Toda una generación de niños pensó: "La música rock es aburrida. Vamos a escuchar música rap."
Por cierto la misma noticia en blabbermouth tiene una entradilla de risa hablando del grunje como: "en los 90's el movimiento grunje simbolizaba el espíritu de la clase obrera, poniendo el foco en la música y no en la imagen."
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Rob Zombie has told TeamRock Radio that it would be impossible to stage a festival like U.K.'s Download in the U.S. because the American rock scene has never regained its momentum after the rise of the early '90s grunge movement, which symbolized the working-class spirit and focused on music over image.
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Grunge caused rap takeover says Zombie
13/06/2014 ~ by Stef Lach
Download 2014: Rob insists 90s bands "anti-rock-starred themselves right out the door"
Rob Zombie insists it would be impossible to stage a festival like Download in the US – because the 90s grunge explosion has left a deep wound in the rock scene across the Atlantic.
And he blames the movement that come out of Seattle for opening the door to the mainstream for rap music.
Zombie tells TeamRock Radio: "When the grunge rock thing hit with Nirvana and all that, everybody thought it was cool to be anti-rock star. They sort of anti-rock starred themselves right out the door – because the rap guys came in and said, 'Fuck it. We'll be the rock stars if you guys are going to wear flannel shirts and stare at your feet.'
“US rock music has never recovered from that. A whole generation of kids thought, 'Rock music is boring. Let's go listen to rap music.'"
That's one of the reasons he loves coming back to Donington. "Here it's different," he states, adding that in the States, "you could never throw a rock festival like this and get this many people. Never – it wouldn't work."
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