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Theory of this moment for me: The British invasion stuck the first knife in, and hippies twisted it long enough to rupture the jugular
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yea maybe the boomers had the beatles but we have charli xcx so like...
Oct 27, 2024
I think I am on board with your assessment @ACTUALLYASLEEP
Four reasons:
* stylistic diversity: punk was born and commercialized at one end, hip hop at the other. We take this for granted today but at the time the jaggedness of going from the Clash to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Treacherous Three, and ESG (all of whom they collaborated with at one point) was exhilarating. The sheer confluence of everything was unprecedented.
* MTV as a cultural force: I mean, it was called Music Television 😉 and this was its finest hour. The assumption was that music mattered more than everything else, otherwise why would you watch it?
* legacy icons: Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bruce, Bowie. I could go on. You may not like them all but you’ve gotta respect the bodies of work over decades.
* the roots of indie culture were born then: bands like R.E.M., Husker Du, Replacements, the Smiths and a million others were blazing a trail (radio, live DIY tours, etc) that created “College Rock” and ultimately indie and here we are today staring in awe at what they made from scratch.
The Reagan era sucked to live through but a lot of great music came out of the struggle.
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Mar 14, 2025
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not reccomending it so much as predicting it. i have no clue what's happening over there politically or economically but if it's even marginally better that the us we are about to get culturally walloped. i think they will breath new life into things that we've already done ala brit pop but i also feel like the stars may align and they might make another beatles. if gen x had sex and the city, millenials had girls, and gen z had euphoria (only claiming season 1), i feel like gen alpha's zeitgeist show will be set in london. white americans have been really into ireland recently so i think they'll also get a slice of the cake
Mar 9, 2025
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Social media can encourage us to constantly seek out the novel and makes us feel like we're missing out if we don't.
It's much better for peace of mind, in my opinion, if we let go of the immediate, and use impermanence as our filter for information.
We don't all need to watch the latest streaming show, or hear the latest album.
What needs to find us, and what we need to find, usually finds a way
Mar 13, 2024
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In a world where monopolization is allowed, sometimes you can only drop Trader Joe's for union busting, while keeping your Amazon account.
Real, wide change in this world might require a new 2020, but we can do a little bit better a little at a time
Mar 15, 2024
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Arcade Fire has to relinquish their publishing to the man
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