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-->-- '''Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll'''

->''Dance music was rock's biggest threat. It was subversive, flirtatious, dangerous -- exactly what rock music had been. Rock was now politically correct, safe, inert.''
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-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Luna Loud]]''', ''Fanfic/PeekingThroughTheFourthWall'', "Episode 15"

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-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Luna Loud]]''', ''Fanfic/PeekingThroughTheFourthWall'', "Episode 15"15"

->''When [[Music/TheBeeGees three brothers]], strutted down a Miami street in 1977, they started the whole world dancing, and most of Australia with it. They were expatriate Australians, but this was not a source of pride to the local rock fraternity.''
-->-- '''Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll'''
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->''This writer seems to think that pop and rock are two separate spheres that can't ever touch each other. But they're not. They overlap, they intertwine, and the line between them has always been pretty blurry. I mean, once upon a time, "pop" was just short for "popular". It was a catch-all term for whatever was toppin' the charts - and for a lot of the 50's and 60's, that was rock 'n roll.\\
The Beatles are one of the greatest rock groups of all time. They're also one of the greatest pop groups. And no Beatlemaniac would take offense to either of those labels. Plus, if you really want to blow this writer's mind, you could tell him that Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo on "Beat It". You know, that song by Michael Jackson? The King of Pop?\\
The idea that rock is above pop, or that you have to be smart to appreciate it, is totally bogus, and it's not what rockers like me want people to think. Fact is, rock can be just as simple and rudimentary as pop. You know how many chords you need to know to play "Blitzkrieg Bop" by The Ramones? Three. A major, D major and E major. That's it. Even Bono said that all he needs to rock out are three chords and the truth.\\
Rock stars and pop starlets aren't enemies; we're brothers from another mother. At the end of the day, we're all just writin' simple songs with catchy hooks and melodies designed to make people want to get up and move.
-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Luna Loud]]''', ''Fanfic/PeekingThroughTheFourthWall'', "Episode 15"
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->'''Callie:''' Time for a battle of the genres! A musical melee! On one side, distortion, drum fills and guitar solos! ROCK!
->'''Marie:''' And on the other, catchy hooks, fashion and fun! POP!
->'''Callie:''' What a contest! Rock goddess or pop princess?
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}''

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