Mandatory Fun (Album 14) Speculation :3

[TMBJon]

Rock is dead, guys. You need to accept it

Everything you say is incorrect.

[ludovica64]

Rock is dead, guys. You need to accept it. As for me, I'd like to see a lot more rap parodies on this album, like more than one. That's what the public wants nowadays, and that's what will get Al the big bucks.

More people like rock than rap.... by a VERY VERY VERY long margin. Rap may sell 3 minute throwaway singles to kids but rock has proved its staying power over a whole lifetime now that the teenagers who first heard Elvis (not you Dave) are now grandparents and great grandparents

[joseyklein]

I agree, rock is very much alive today, and definitely has way more staying power than rap/pop

[Yankomaniac]

I hope this teaches you some sort of lesson here JCM! Rap, you're crazy.

[weirdal27]

He should put Friday in his next polka. xD

[weirdojace]

Clearly, rap is no longer the "big thing" in music anymore. As you can see from Alpocalypse's tracklisting. It was in the 2000s, but we've moved on to pop. Most likely in a few years we'll be somewhere else, as popular music is constantly changing.

[Teh Dingo]

Yep. Rap was outselling rock in the 00s, and sometimes it still does, but it's nowhere near as big as it used to be.

Eminem, Jay-Z, Kanye, Lil Wayne are on a different level than the rest of the rap just like Metallica, Linkin Park, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Coldplay etc are on a different level for rock. They'll sell in any market and the rest just hope to be anywhere on a scale from moderately to consistently popular.

But rock isn't "dead". And since Al's style parodies almost always are rock and that's what he listens too, it certainly won't be "dead" to Al.

As for what's popular in a few years, I'm going for Industrial Electric Polka Bluegrass

[Way_Moby]

I would love a Bloodhound Gang style parody, but how would that work? Just lots of innuendos, albeit, milder. :p

[joseyklein]

Rock will make its comeback, it did in the 90's and it will again... Right as POP dies down, rock takes over

[TMBJon]

Rock also had a nice comeback in the early/mid 2000s. It never really goes away. There are still very popular rock acts out now, who aren't necessarily doing well in the charts but as I've often said there are other metrics by which music acts are judged nowadays.