Bono and Jack White wonder: Just how immortal is rock music?

geez, I'm not a fanboy or anything but this is silly... it's not like he took out an ad in the New York Times that said DESTROY ITUNES or whatever, although that would be pretty funny... he was asked about his opinion about the state of rock music and gave his opinion

more popular than ever: knowing as many band names and album titles and the 'skinny' on each one.
Less popular than ever: paying attention, obsessing over a favorite band, knowing all the lyrics, wearing the t-shirts..

yeah Jack is perhaps being cynical / oversimplifying things a bit, but I think his statement is worth an actual debate. it seems stupid to immediately dismiss someone that suggests something in the past was better as if the convenience of new technology is constantly propelling toward the best of all possible worlds.

"Rock brought together rhythm, harmony and top-line melody: rhythm for the body, top-line melody for the mind, and harmony for the spirit. That's a very powerful concoction. Classical music has harmony and top-line melody, but it didn't have rhythm. That's why rock 'n' roll surpassed it."

Why hasn't anyone set up a debate between Bono and Roger Scruton yet? It'd be a blast.

Also:

http://g.sheetmusicplus.com/Look-Inside/large/4002407_01.jpg

(I hear that he has rhythms he hasn't even used yet.]

Eleven years behind on this, but I had no idea Jack White covered "Love Is Blindness" until he performed it tonight at Barclays Center. (He recorded it for a tribute album to Achtung Baby - the same recording was then used as a B-side then contributed to the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's ridiculous adaptation of The Great Gatsby.)

Show was amazing, the best guitar playing I've seen at a show in a very long time, and he really worked the crowd (which reciprocated in full). Very few masks though - I wore one but I'm really hoping I don't get COVID. And yes, Jack did look like a Batman villain as Josh mentioned in another thread - that white make-up impressively never came off no matter how many times he wiped the sweat off his face.