luka
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seems to me theres two really visible influences among the youth/pop culture of the 00s. one is vice magazine which is just the face for a more affectless generation the other, much more potent pervasive influence is this computer game.
it must be in more homes than any recent album or dvd or anything. and the amount of people who played it a fair bit would be even greater still. this game is presumably a foretaste of the future where games will routinely have greater cultural impact than any musician or filmaker or whatever.
i think a lot of otherwise inexplicable phenomena can be explained by this game. temps t's flat top, the huge resurgance in NWA love among people far too young to remember it from the first time around, even the fact that every forum on the internet has an 80s r&b thread that runs to hundreds of responses (80s/early 90s revival time too but part of GTAs success comes from capturing that era anyway. )
if i wrote this at a different time of day it would be more conherernt but i think you lot can fill in any gaps for me..... just wanted to make the point...
it must be in more homes than any recent album or dvd or anything. and the amount of people who played it a fair bit would be even greater still. this game is presumably a foretaste of the future where games will routinely have greater cultural impact than any musician or filmaker or whatever.
i think a lot of otherwise inexplicable phenomena can be explained by this game. temps t's flat top, the huge resurgance in NWA love among people far too young to remember it from the first time around, even the fact that every forum on the internet has an 80s r&b thread that runs to hundreds of responses (80s/early 90s revival time too but part of GTAs success comes from capturing that era anyway. )
if i wrote this at a different time of day it would be more conherernt but i think you lot can fill in any gaps for me..... just wanted to make the point...