The Diversity of Classic Rock

Since I was 14 years old I’ve been watching the YouTuber The Amazing Atheist, also known as TJ, now known as Into The Fray on YouTube. I consider him to be one of my influences politically and as a writer. I loved his rants on politics and I like that he’s a leftist who isn’t...

Classic rock fans are pretentious, and I’m saying this as a huge classic rock fan. In reality, I think music nerds/music fans are either the most chill people ever and are happy to be ambassadors of the music they love and are keen to get you to expand your tastes or they’re the most pretentious, stuck up people who act like hipsters but will claim they’re not one even though...

Classic rock fans are often stereotyped as being snobbish, pretentious, and elitist. Only listening to rock music and dismissing anything released after a certain year and they’ll call their favourites sellouts when they cross over into pop music (I saw this happen a lot with 80s Genesis and Yes).