Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood thinks we’re losing the “essence” of making music due to technology: “We were throwing sh*t at the wall and some of it stuck”
Rolling Stones legend Ronnie Wood believes technology is taking away from the “heartbeat” of modern music.
Speaking at the launch event for the hardback edition of Buddy Holly: Words of Love, a book celebrating the life of the late rock and roll pioneer, Wood weighs in on the current music landscape as well as how music creation has changed over the years.
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“We were throwing shit at the wall and some of it stuck,” he says [via Music-News], recalling the raw experimentation of early rock and roll. “There’s something about the technology I feel personally, we’re losing the essence of the heartbeat.”
“Maybe it’s because I’m older, but there’s not much new music,” Wood adds.
That said, the 77-year-old isn’t all doom and gloom when it comes to rock’s future. He argues that the genre is going through a shift – one that he finds really “exciting”.
“I think rock music has been so convoluted because we got to be forced and twisted for a mainstream audience to turn the guitar down,” Wood explains. “Modern music’s been in a strange place, but it’s exciting because it’s really, I feel it’s very democratic again.”
The Stones guitarist, who joined the band in 1975, credits social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram for shaking up the industry and allowing artists to take control of their own narratives.
“For the past four years a lot of majors have been able to control what we’ve been placed in front of us, but we know apps like TikTok, Instagram and everything like that I really find that people can provide authenticity again directly,” he says.
“If you have a story to tell, you can tell it and tell it to the world. You don’t have to go through seven steps.”
“I think that’s what’s really cool about how rock music [is] at the minute, and modern rock and roll music, I really feel like it’s finding its bounce back,” Wood continues. “And it’s becoming hysterical again and it’s exciting. It’s becoming younger again. That’s really cool.”
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