In the article the author mention a social issue involving “corporate rock”. Which is a pejorative term for AOR type bands that played commercially acceptable songs. Many people take this as an insult because it gave the 70s-80s music a bad name. Many people take this as a their music is the type of music that should be planned in the elevator, due to the fact that it lacks creativity and results in heavy marketing. In the article it states “What’s funny about the insult is how old-fashioned it seems. The term “corporate rock” is a relic of the nineteen-seventies, popularized by critics who felt that the big record companies had coöpted a rebellious, authentic genre for mass consumption.”
