That is why it is a good thing a band like Greta Van Fleet exists. They at least get nominated/mentioned.
They do have humor btw:
That's not humour tho, just appropriating the schtick of another classsic rock band (and not even one that is as much of an overt influence on their style - makes not sense to me).... unless you count how the 3 bottom dudes look like clones of each other - are they related? Incestuous scene joke? Naw that's too cerebral.
And I do not agree that they are saving rock at all. Their main fanbase is retired blues dads and some of the sons/wives/daughters thereof... and my wife, but she might be over them now - hasn't played one of their songs within my earshot since before the holidays. To 'save' rock (I don;t believe it needs saving - eveolution is not death) you need to bring in new blood (fans not just musicians) and they have failed at that (evidence: nominated but didn't win - that usually means critical acceptance, the cirtics here being old blues dads, but not enough young fandom in the largest current marketing demopgraphic: echo boomers aka gen Y aka millenials).
I was actually selling a vintage cymbal to some manager at LiveNation. My studio is next to a major local venue and we met there cuz he was running the show next door. He invited me in to check out this "awesome drummer" sound checking and I had to poker face and make excuses to leave when he told me it was the Greta Van Fleet guy. Like yeah, they're technically skilled musicians, but I just don't enjoy wankery for wankery's sake. Stylistically they're just Zep with a bit of Sabbath mixed in (mostly with the leads and vocals on about half the songs I've heard); not a breath of fresh air in there anywhere, and as I've said somewhere on the board before, Wolf Mother (more of you lot liked those guys IIRC) beat them to it by a decade.... though with the increasing speed of change these days maybe it was time for that to come around again. Whatever.