quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
I don't think i really 'get' the whole new disco thing...
like 70s and 80s stuff i really like, but it kinda pisses me off all the stuff coming out lately which has the same production values, simply because these people are INTENTIONALLY making it sound bad so it sounds like its 30 years old...
disco shit was out of time because it was played live, and the technology wasn't good enough to fkn quantize everything, these days all you have to do is hit a button and your instruments will be in time, yet you get these guys who are no doubt mad producers zooming in and intentionally putting instruments out of time simply to mimic the sound...
pisses me off.
make something fucking new instead of ripping off a style... the 90s and 00s really have not created anything new whatsoever, its a fucking population of reinventors, wtf happened to the human drive to improve, and revolutionise!?!?!?
every style, and movement for the last 20 years has simply been a reimagination of old movements... wtf is wrong with everybody!? |
Conservativism in entertainment culture typically comes in progressive waves, often shattered by the advent of something relatively fresh and new. It's why some musical acts or movements are thought of as "revolutionary", even though that sounds like just a buzzword to sell t-shirts. It's not usually something you can recognize until far after the fact, but culture and politics obviously go hand-in-hand. Horror movies, for example, see repeated revivals depending on global events such as war or economy. Disco was a brief movement that had almost everything to do with the rising of large clubs, new drugs, and a recovering economy wrought with resource tensions and a United States thinking it was too mature for the Vietnam War - or just forgetting about it altogether. This transitioned into the 1980s and obviously 90s, but I think that nowadays we are experiencing a lull not dissimilar to the 1950s - it's an impossible thing to predict, of course, as the US, for one example, is still embroiled in heavy martial occupations, but once those soldiers come back in about 10 years, we're in for quite a shock! Of course by then, all of TA will be aging suburbanites who talk about trance as 'the good old days' and will refuse to even listen to anything new, if the past generation is much of an indicator. In fact, it's already kind of happening...
It's obviously a very flimsy theory, but Howard Bloom wrote a few chapters about it in his Lucifer Principle, and I think it's very possibly true on at least some levels.
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