Rock Music

Emma Watson 12.4

Artists associated with rock

• Fall Out Boy• All Time Low• Paramore• Panic! At The Disco• Green Day• You me at six• Boys like Girls• All American Rejects• My Chemical Romance

CostumeStereotypically people who listen to rock music where a lot of dark colours but particularly black. They often where ripped or distressed clothes and a lot of red and black plaid. They also have more facial based piercings such as septum's and Monroe's. They also often more out there hairstyles to enforce the idea of rebellion

Make-upGirls who like rock music often wear quite heavy eye makeup. Often they wear a smokey eye with a lot of dark eye liner. They also often wear dark red or purple lipstick. They will avoid light colours such as pink and peach. Also, boys who listen to Rock music will sometimes wear black eye liner because it defies the rules of society and that is the idea of rock.

LightingLighting at a rock concert is often quite dark but will have bright strobe lights often in the colours of Red, Blue and White. They also normally come down from the ceiling to the audience and will be highlighted by a smoke machine.

Behaviour

People who listen to Rock music often have quite rebellious nature as rock is all about fighting against the system. Rock is aimed at the people who feel like they don’t fit in with society’s ideals. Even though rock is rebellious it is not violent it is just a stereotype as most people assume due to the lyrics and beats of the song

Fans

Fans of rock music tend to defy stereotypes such as wearing more masculine style clothes. They also defy stereotypes by having bold hair and multiple facial based piercings. They often don’t quite fit in with everyone else so they turn to rock as an escape from the outside world. People who listen to rock are stereotyped as being scary and violent but actually they are common advocates of peace and are calming they like to prove that someone's music taste and appearance does not represent their character