Metallica‘s drummer Lars Ulrich has been pondering the mixed response to their booking as Glastonbury headliners this week, telling BBC 6Music it may be emblematic of people looking at hard rock as a ‘lower form of music’.
“People have short attention spans in 2014… They like things broken down into easy, digestible sound-bites,” he said.
“It’s like, Metallica at Glastonbury, what’s the sound-bite? ‘Here comes the big bad heavy metal band to our precious little festival.’ I don’t think it’s genuinely like that… but there obviously are people who snub their nose a little bit at hard rock, and look at hard rock as inferior or lower-class, some sort of lower music form or something, and that the people who listen to hard rock are less educated.”
Metallica will be hoping to replicate the success of previous trail-blazing headliners Jay-Z and Beyonce when they top the Pyramid Stage this coming Saturday (June 28th).