Creativity Quote by Bjork

Rock at 50 isn’t just “old”; it’s being institutionalized, and Bjork clocks that shift with a kind of cool, sideways curiosity. Calling rock “classical in itself” isn’t a compliment so much as a diagnosis: a once-disruptive form has aged into repertoire. The music that sold itself on rebellion now gets curated, reissued, taught, ranked. The guitar riff becomes a museum object, protected by canon, fenced off by nostalgia, and marketed as heritage.

Bjork’s intent lands in the phrasing “it’s become,” which treats this as an almost natural process rather than a moral failure. She’s not scolding rock for mellowing out; she’s noting what happens when a genre stops being a risky present tense and becomes a stable reference point. “Classical” here signals more than “good.” It signals standards, gatekeepers, and the subtle narrowing of what counts as legitimate rock: certain albums, certain men, certain decades, endlessly recirculated.

The subtext is Bjork’s own position as an artist who’s always treated categories as temporary scaffolding. Rock “turning 50” implies a generational handoff, but also a power shift: when rock becomes classical, the avant-garde moves elsewhere, often into hybrid, electronic, global, and uncategorizable spaces Bjork has long inhabited. Her “interesting to see that development” reads like an anthropologist watching culture harden into tradition - a reminder that no revolution stays young, and that today’s shock becomes tomorrow’s syllabus.