Recently, vocalist Mick Jagger gave an interview in which he said that younger artists like Machine Gun Kelly and Yungblud make him think that "there's still a little life in rock 'n' roll".
Although it's a more optimistic comment, the thought directly engages with the controversial opinion of Gene Simmons , who has insisted for years that "rock is dead ," and, according to Damiano David , vocalist of the Italian hard rock band Måneskin , both perspectives are wrong.
In an interview with NME , he commented on Jagger's statement and disagreed with the artist. “Nobody is keeping rock 'n' roll alive. It's impossible to kill it. For me, what we do is different from what MGK does, which is very different from what Yungblud does, which is very different from what Willow Smith does, but many artists are bringing back that kind of sound and energy,” he reflected.
“Distorted guitars and real drums, playing with a band with real analog sounds, jumping off the stage – that’s what rock 'n' roll is all about. The music is just evolving. Everything is colliding and mixing in a good way.”
David also admitted that a "secret pleasure" of Måneskin is to irritate the so-called "rock dinosaurs," who are against any kind of novelty within the genre:
“For me, it doesn’t make sense to expect us to behave like the Stones or Queen . Those bands already happened and had their moment. They created a legacy and nobody can touch them. It’s very stupid and pointless to expect a band of young people to replicate what happened in the 70s and 80s. We are in 2022, so we are just trying to do something new that makes us happy and satisfied.”
“I love seeing people say, ‘Oh, they’re not Led Zeppelin .’ I know! We’ll never be. I’m not Robert Plant ; I’d love to be! I have to do my own thing,” he concluded.
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