Since the album didn't come out we can't say for sure what the genre or "style" would have been, but this song suggests that maybe the pastiche this time was of the '70s arena rocker.
While naming it an "arena rocker", Melissa Maerz from Entertainment Weekly also praised "moments like the gospel-choir chorus of the track", calling it "genuinely affecting."
Another track from the album, the arena rocker "Head Above Water", has been used in TV advertisements for the New York Aquarium on Coney Island.
Metallica, once an underground metal band, outsold Pearl Jam by simply embracing the venerable role of arena rocker.
No arena rocker under 60 acts his age like Peter Gabriel, 52, who is touring for the first time since 1993.
The prevailing stereotype of the arena rocker depicted a party animal, occupying the lowest rung on the ladder of American pop culture.
The song met mixed reviews, ranging from "unironic 80s arena rocker" to getting high marks.
Although she came on like an arena rocker with her power chords, tough sexuality, and powerful vocals, her music was stra...
After that, we're in an Orwellian 1984 that's presided over by a vaguely fascist president and by arena rockers who serve as propagandists for a repressively conformist state.