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I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.
In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.