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>thread literally full of people namedropping stereotypes
"WhAt StErEoTyPeS eXaCtLy ArE yOu TaLkInG aBoUt."
Why do you want me to play games with you?
The stereotype that progressive rock was music made by tryhard pseudo-intellectual twats with their heads up their ass who thought they were better than everybody else. That's a progressive metal and neoprog stereotype that hot passed down to progressive rock through music journalists and people parroting eachother.
Every single relevant progressive rock band of the 1970s was composed of people having fun with what they're doing; These people by-in-lage listened to and enjoyed popular rock throughout the 1960s, contrary to the "pretentious twat who turns his nose up to anything on the radio" stereotype. The entire point behind progressive rock initially in the U.K. was that rock music was largely looked down upon as blue collar/pedestrian by music snobs (primarily jazzfags) in the 1960s and a bunch of British lads wanted to prove that rock could evolve to be "rich" and progressive, since progressive was already music terminology for a lot of genres before that point while rock was largely left in the dust.
A lot of the stereotypes projected onto 1970s progressive rock were stereotypes that only really took hold in the 80s and 90s, largely through progressive metal and neoprog. You look through 1970s progressive rock band members and you'll find people who used to play in legit choirs, people who grew up well acquainted with jazz, people who went to music conservatories. You look into the line-ups of prog bands from the 80s onwards and you genuinely just find "Guy who listened to prog rock, guy who listened to prog rock, dude who listened to prog rock", etc. who all have their heads up their asses.
