[BC] On the FM Dial, Rock Is Sliding Away

[SteveOrdinetz]

At 09:18 AM 11/27/2005, Robert Meuser wrote:


>SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>   Rock
>>formats have been on the decline for a good 10 years now as the tastes of 
>>teen/20something males has changed.  Next time some kid in his riced-out 
>>Suburu drives by listen to what's blasting out of his stereo...chances 
>>are it's hip-hop, not rock.  Remember the days when Top 40 used to pull 
>>double-digit shares 'most everywhere?  All of the aforementioned cities 
>>have large non-white populations.
>
>What does race have to do with this???  Look who is driving that 
>Subaru.  Its is  little Johnny from the suburbs.


That's my point...even the white kids aren't listening to rock much anymore 
(whether it's on the radio or elsewhere).  I don't imagine rock was EVER 
that big in highly ethnic cities.