thank god an aging arena rock band composed of a bunch of graying 60 year old men in british schoolboy uniforms is releasing an album. boomers really refuse to go peacefully
Growing up, I always asummed that icons of the past would clear out for the creation of new icons, as is the way of things and the prevailing narrative in coming of age/heroes journey stories. Little did I know that all the same artists, all the same politicians (that architectured US interventions abroad), all the same video game characters, all the same movies, and all the same brands would stick around until the rigor mortis from the grip of the boomers gives way to the decay of flesh.
Dare I say all of it is late stage capitalism? The same artists get stage time because they're a safe bet. Good video games turn to garbage because of their release dates (and the fucking crunches are insane). The politicians, Disney, and Hollywood need no introduction.
Say what you will about youtbe and twtch - despite their intense and massive flaws which continue to propagate, the low barrier to entry for talent is a breath a fresh air compared to the shit Marvel cranks out. Nobody needs to decide what is good enough/appropriate for an audience to see and that's special. That's the kind of creative freedom that should be celebrated and developed in any society that values the individual.
jesus yeah this is exactly how i feel. we're all just watching the same stories, listening to the same music, ruled by the same people. I really hold no hate for AC/DC, but I just remember being in middle school (and they were fucking old then) and having all these old bands like AC/DC shoved down my throat by boomer suburban parents and my racist middle school friends as "real music." Like anything new was worse than music made 30 (or more) years ago, just on account of it being new. My dad asking me i know you like this [rap, electronic, even rock music that didn't sound like the old shit], but you don't really think it's better than a band like the GRATEFUL DEAD do you? I guess it makes sense though, Americans are still clutching to a 200 year old document and somehow believe that that makes them better than the rest of the world.
What gets me is, my dad too but not just him, when they say "they don't make it like this anymore." Yes they fucking do. People still make classical music. They make 80s sounding music. They make folk music. They make jazz, rock, metal, soul, blue grass, R&B, and everything else still. It's in crystal clear fidelity. You just don't look for new artists in even a single Google search because you don't actually give a fuck about the music. You just want stadiums to blast it during a time out at sportsball. You're upset about some other status symbol of music, because multi-millionaires have 8 songs they cycle through for high profile events and your favorite jingles only account for 2 of them now, 40-50 years later.
What I really don’t understand is people my own age having the same purist ideas of music as old white boomers. I like a lot of classic rock and shit, but the purist ideas that I’ve heard espoused by peers in middle school, high school, even college, about rock music from the 60s, 70s and 80s having some vague quality which makes it superior and more “real” is so surreal. Like, y’all didn’t even grow up with this shit, it was made at the least like 10 years before you were born. I know there’s definitely some racism and homophobia that goes into these opinions, especially for certain genres. But there’s definitely more to it. They wanna be suburban dads so bad.
I actually wish my dad still loved the dead. He has now decided that the Grateful Dead is “black music” and listens exclusively to medieval and Renaissance music and Gregorian chants. So fucking weird
thank god an aging arena rock band composed of a bunch of graying 60 year old men in british schoolboy uniforms is releasing an album. boomers really refuse to go peacefully
Growing up, I always asummed that icons of the past would clear out for the creation of new icons, as is the way of things and the prevailing narrative in coming of age/heroes journey stories. Little did I know that all the same artists, all the same politicians (that architectured US interventions abroad), all the same video game characters, all the same movies, and all the same brands would stick around until the rigor mortis from the grip of the boomers gives way to the decay of flesh.
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Dare I say all of it is late stage capitalism? The same artists get stage time because they're a safe bet. Good video games turn to garbage because of their release dates (and the fucking crunches are insane). The politicians, Disney, and Hollywood need no introduction.
Say what you will about youtbe and twtch - despite their intense and massive flaws which continue to propagate, the low barrier to entry for talent is a breath a fresh air compared to the shit Marvel cranks out. Nobody needs to decide what is good enough/appropriate for an audience to see and that's special. That's the kind of creative freedom that should be celebrated and developed in any society that values the individual.
jesus yeah this is exactly how i feel. we're all just watching the same stories, listening to the same music, ruled by the same people. I really hold no hate for AC/DC, but I just remember being in middle school (and they were fucking old then) and having all these old bands like AC/DC shoved down my throat by boomer suburban parents and my racist middle school friends as "real music." Like anything new was worse than music made 30 (or more) years ago, just on account of it being new. My dad asking me i know you like this [rap, electronic, even rock music that didn't sound like the old shit], but you don't really think it's better than a band like the GRATEFUL DEAD do you? I guess it makes sense though, Americans are still clutching to a 200 year old document and somehow believe that that makes them better than the rest of the world.
What gets me is, my dad too but not just him, when they say "they don't make it like this anymore." Yes they fucking do. People still make classical music. They make 80s sounding music. They make folk music. They make jazz, rock, metal, soul, blue grass, R&B, and everything else still. It's in crystal clear fidelity. You just don't look for new artists in even a single Google search because you don't actually give a fuck about the music. You just want stadiums to blast it during a time out at sportsball. You're upset about some other status symbol of music, because multi-millionaires have 8 songs they cycle through for high profile events and your favorite jingles only account for 2 of them now, 40-50 years later.
What I really don’t understand is people my own age having the same purist ideas of music as old white boomers. I like a lot of classic rock and shit, but the purist ideas that I’ve heard espoused by peers in middle school, high school, even college, about rock music from the 60s, 70s and 80s having some vague quality which makes it superior and more “real” is so surreal. Like, y’all didn’t even grow up with this shit, it was made at the least like 10 years before you were born. I know there’s definitely some racism and homophobia that goes into these opinions, especially for certain genres. But there’s definitely more to it. They wanna be suburban dads so bad.
Flaming Lips > Phish
I actually wish my dad still loved the dead. He has now decided that the Grateful Dead is “black music” and listens exclusively to medieval and Renaissance music and Gregorian chants. So fucking weird
AC/DC should've bowed out when Malcolm Young passed. He wrote all their songs back in their prime.
one day bon scott will arise from the dead and vaporize them all like that one hot chip video
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