Why Is There NO Rock & Roll in China?

I am not a huge fan of love songs, but if it has a good beat I can dig it. The problem with Chinese music is that every song is a love song. It’s all, I love you let’s be together, oh no why can’t we be together, oh god why are we together? I say that pretty much sums it up. My friend asked why they have no Rock music here. I guess they have their own version of it somewhere.
I go to KTV with my friends Chinese and foreign friends and while the foreigners are belting out Bon Jovi’s ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ and Elton John’s Rocketman the microphone gets passed to the Chinese singers and what a surprise, another 8 minute ballad about unrequited love. You do get a great video featuring a girly haired boy crying over his lost love and flashes of said lover trying not to cry while doing her homework. Now if this video was real life China they would be screaming at each other in the street, the boyfriend would throw whatever he was carrying and the girl would crumple into a sobbing heap on the side walk. Anyway, back to the music.
The truth of it is that love is the safest thing to sing about. Everyone knows music has a great influence on the masses and China won’t allow anything controversial or possibly rebellious-revolutionary to be sung about and therefore available to the public mind.
It makes sense when you think about it. China is the perfect example of peer pressure, with so many people in the country it’s too dangerous to the government’s stability to just let any ideas be floating around and promoting self thought. With independence comes the ability to want more for yourself but the Chinese government knows exactly what it wants, so having individuals running around trying to change things is too dangerously disruptive.

Maybe it sounds like I am downing China on this account, but actually I understand why they do it. I can’t say I agree and I won’t say that I disagree, but I see the sense in it. Such a huge country needs unity and if such a large group of people were given too much freedom things could go sour before you could say “mama huhu” (means horses and tigers for those who never heard it. The meaning is ‘just so-so’). So the main point to all of this is that Rock and Roll is just too damn dangerous for China.