With 2020 halting the music industry, Alice Cooper reckons 2021 will be the year it makes a comeback, and it’ll hit us with “a tidal wave of music.”

2020 has not been the year we all anticipated. Many of us had already bought tickets for local and international acts that were slated to hit up Australia, as well as feeling keen for upcoming music festivals.

Well, with coronavirus smacking us about, this year has seen us spend more time in isolation. Since bands can’t tour during this period of life, they sure as heck are using their free time to work up some new tunes, and Alice Cooper thinks that 2021 will be a massive year for music because of it.

Chatting with Riki Rachtman on Rock For Relief, the iconic rocker Alice Cooper noted that he’s just one of the many artists who have had their shows cancelled due to coronavirus: “We had a show that was gonna be on Halloween in Mexico City — big outdoor show. And now that’s canceled, of course, ’cause that’s like ground zero right now for them.”

If the cards play themselves right, and January of 2021 sees us pushing past the virus, Alice Cooper reckons that he thinks that “everybody’s gonna go out in January,” with tours, music, and the works.

“I think that 2021 is gonna be like a tidal wave of music, ’cause everybody‘s gonna be touring. And do you think anybody is not writing songs right now? Everybody’s at home, everybody has a studio — there’s gonna be so many albums coming out in 2021. I’m telling you, it’s gonna be so much, you won’t even be able to digest it, I don’t think.”

With this year going on record as one of the most stressful, dull, and honestly sad periods of time many of us have lived through, we can only hope that the legendary rocker is right, and that 2021 may finally be our year.

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