#3 - Critic: Rock music is musically bankrupt and socially

[dshen123]

The conclusion is about rock music...why A? because digital music is a part of rock music?

[Dana D]

Hey dshen,

The author concludes that rock music has nothing going for it because of the rise of digital music. Before, rock music had innovative visual art. Presumably, this feature is lost. There's a gap here, which answer choice (A) fills - if digital music doesn't include visual art, it would make sense that there is now a loss of visual art, aka the only thing rock music had going for it. So, the author's conclusion that rock music has nothing going for it makes sense.


Hope that helps!

[Morgan2cats]

Hi PowerScore,

I'm not sure why C is wrong but this is my thought:

Rock music had at least one good thing that rock LPs from the 1960s and 1970s featured innovative visual art. But digital music ended LPs. Thus rock music has no value.

Here is some implied assumptions I thinkup:
1. Digital rock music has no other value except innovative visual art.
2. Among digital rock music, only LPs have innovative visual art value.

C is very close to the second assumption, but C is wrong about time and scope. C could be right if C says "In digital music era, only rock LPs could feature innovative album cover art".

Please correct me if anything is wrong. Thanks!

[Jeff Wren]

Hi Morgan,

You asked if the following would be a correct assumption.

"In digital music era, only rock LPs could feature innovative album cover art".

Unfortunately, this still would not be an assumption of the argument. By stating that only rock LPs could feature innovative album art, that would imply that other (non-rock) LPs do not have innovative album art. This is not necessary for the argument. It is completely fine if other types of music LPs (jazz, country, etc.) also have innovative album art.

What matters for the argument is that physical LPs in the 1960s and 1970s had innovative album art (and that was their only redeeming feature according to the critic), and the digital rock music now does not have innovative album art, so it has "nothing going for it."