Måneskin have responded to Mick Jagger’s comments about the state of rock’n’roll, disputing the idea that young artists are keeping the genre alive.The Italian band were speaking to NME for the latest Big Read cover story ahead of a huge homecoming gig in Verona when they shared their thoughts on The Rolling Stones frontman’s views.Last month, Jagger praised the likes of Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly in an interview with a Swedish radio station, saying the artists made him “think there is still a bit of life in rock’n’roll”.Asked about their perspective on those remarks, Måneskin singer Damiano David assessed the rock icon’s views as “a very old-fashioned way to see it”. “Nobody is ‘keeping rock’n’roll alive’,” he continued. “It’s just impossible to kill.“In my head what we’re doing is very different to what MGK is doing, which is very far from what Yungblud is doing, which is very far from what Willow Smith is doing, but a lot of artists are bringing back that kind of sound and energy: distorted guitars and real drums, to fucking play with a band with real analogue sounds, stage-diving – all the rock’n’roll shit.
Music is just developing. Everything is colliding and mixing in a good way.”Elsewhere in the interview, the band also discussed taking pleasure in pissing off rock purists. “It’s my guilty pleasure,” David told NME. “For me, it just makes no sense to expect us to behave like the Stones or Queen.
It already happened and peaked. They fucking created a legacy and nobody can touch it.“It’s so stupid and pointless to expect a band of 20-year-olds to replicate what was happening in the ’70s and ’80s.
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