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While the hedonistic aspect of both cock rock and rap rock makes them easy to compare, there are some real reasons one has rebooted and the other probably never will.
ReplyDelete1) Because there's little to no self-loathing in the cock rock, it's easier to get nostalgic at or laugh along with (or at), like a lot eighties music. It's like a yearbook you can listen to. Whereas the rap-rock is more like a really scary tattoo you got when your emotional development was stunted and (hopefully) grew out of.
2) It has become an article of rock lit faith that some albums, while they fit comfortably in the cock rock/pop metal rubric, some albums (Appetite For Destruction, Pyromania, even something like 1984 or Sonic Temple) have transcended it and can be acceptable as "real" rock albums, with some amount of timelessness to them. Hell, the case can be made that The Black Album made the hair farmers just as obsolete as Nevermind did, but because it was the Last Great Pop Metal Record. Whereas even the bands that get the most critical love from the mid-late nineties never fit into it THAT well because of such issues as lyrical content, lack of the more obvious rap/rock traits (misogyny, a turntable, etc.) or other sonic differences. It might be simplistic, but Tool didn't have scratches, the Deftones were/are WAY more lyrically/sonically obtuse that the average nu-metallers and any woman in a Rage Against The Machine song was going to throw a brick through a Starbucks window before she'd ever give you a lapdance.
But that's just my weird take one the subject.