Sérgio
Rodrigues de Souza
Philosopher. Post-Doctorate in Psychology. E-mail:
srgrodriguesdesouza@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This scientific essay
seeks to answer one of the biggest questions in the history of music: why
didn't Guns n' Roses release new material after the release of the double
albums Use Your Illusion I and II, in 1991? This is a complex answer that
cannot be exhausted in a short text, given the phenomenological dimension that
involves it; However, here we have tried to provide a guideline that clarifies
some key points in the band's musical trajectory and its relationship with
music, with fans and with their dream companions. Guns is a phenomenon in its
own right, difficult to explain from its composition to the success they
achieved with their sound, in which they mix exact doses of a wild and harmonic
style with a hoarse voice that exudes passion and pain throughout lyrics that
express the purest existentialism. Some people refer to Guns n' Roses as the
last of the giants; but this is a complex question, because the emergence of
the group is not; However, the launch of Illusion is situated in a context of
historical-sociological inflection, and can be analyzed and interpreted as a
generational behavioral transformation and, by accident, they end up being
caught up in it or, even, they may have represented the cataclysm that
completely determined the end of an era in music. The musical representations
performed by musicians and orchestras [ symphonic
and philharmonic ] that can be seen in myriads around the world seek to
give more life to the sound and not to change its sound composition, which
proves that they have managed to remain as musicians that others do not wish to
surpass in terms of sound and musical aesthetics. With this, Guns n' Roses has
become an indelible brand.
Keywords: Guns n' Roses. Don't cry. November rain. Axl, Slash and Duff. Phenomenology.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
julho 03, 2025
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