#Alternative Rock

Alternative rock is a school of music that plays distorted guitar riffs as if mocking the sales charts backstage from the commercial stage. While proclaiming a desire to stay apart from the mainstream, it ends up wearing an indie label’s merch—a philosophy of music self-contradiction. Audiences brandish rebellion only to be consumed as fashion icons before they know it. The staged antiestablishment hallways inevitably shift into licensing deals, and the DIY ethos is converted into social media fodder for light users at the price of freedom.