The rock icon said he 'didn't want to start complaining' about one genre before slamming the music style as 'rubbish.'
“I don’t really like to hear people yelling at me and telling me it’s music, AKA rap. I can get enough of that without leaving my house,” Richards said of one of the music genres.Richards – who has a music taste that includes the sounds of blues, jazz and classical music – said he didn’t “want to start complaining about pop music,” too, before offering his two cents on the music genre.
“It’s always been rubbish. I mean, that’s the point of it. They make it as cheap and as easy as possible and therefore it always sounds the same; there’s very little feel in it,” said Richards, whose manager reportedly once “instructed” him to drop the s in his surname because it “ “I like to hear music by people playing instruments. That is, I don’t like to hear plastic synthesised Muzak, as it used to be known, what you hear in elevators, which is now the par for the course.”
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones perform live on stage during a concert of The Rolling Stones at the Johan Cruijff Arena on July 7, 2022 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He continued: “All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they’re happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can’t tell one note from another.
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