I'm sure Spotify/Creating music for vibes has some kind of synthesis but I haven't had the caffeine for that yet.
Moreover, I think the shifts in music that we're seeing owe more to people not being able to afford guitars or the space necessary to practice
Oh I was listening to Alan Cross talk about this earlier in the week.
Basically material conditions for Zoomers (and likely everyone who comes after) are rapidly deteriorating and when that happens, music tends to get darker. Consider the Oil Crisis of the 70's, which gave us punk rock. When it all settled down around 77, we got disco. The recession of the early 90s, along with the Gulf War, spurred the rise of grunge. But when we believed that was over (say around '96?) the focus turns away from angry young white men with guitars and toward feel-good pop like the Spice Girls.
Spotify did a lot to disrupt these kinds of cycles, but they're not immune to them. During the mid 2010's, when we should have seen a return to big, loud, guitar-based music, we got a rise in folky indie stuff. But it was folky indie stuff that addressed those feelings. We want music that addresses our emotions but the ways we go about addressing our emotions require less volume these days. I suspect this has something to do with either men getting better at expressing themselves or fewer young people identifying as male?
Does this count as reading theory?
They're a bunch of dorks but they always have such cool gear
That's not Charlie Sheen that's Lee Ving from FEAR.
(Obligatory "Yeah, I wish he fuckin was..." for Lee Ving.)
Posting about it makes me think he wants to be the guy who coined "...on my father's sardines."
Like if he didn't think he'd recover, this ain't the way to go about recovering.
I guess the real difference is racist comic book fans didn't have an internationally accessible platform
Much of life was "apolitical" back then. Sure, she was a black woman in the title role of a comic book, but she wore the same skin-tight outfits as everyone else and posed in the same sexy ways.
Eventually people got smart to Marvel "inserting politics into everything" and we started the downward spiral
This is perfect for someone like me, who's licensed to fly a plane but not to drive a car
For all his shortcomings, Forrest Gump put a lot of the money he made from his Apple stocks back into his community.
Ever wonder if dinosaurs displayed the same weird behavioral traits birds do?
Okay but does this count as reading theory?