linebaugh
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Im sure he's fine but I'm so jaded that if you look like this I just cant do it.
Albums of the year 2012
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mvuent
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i've been thinking for a while that being really intensely into music (as in, prioritizing it over all other media) seems kind of outmoded. the Kids' energy and excitement feels like it's a lot more centered around video games and the surrounding culture. (or, yeah, even around theory in some cases.) that's my intuitive reading of the pulse. obviously on some level it's ridiculous to say, since they're both an ingrained part of people's lives, like saying food is more popular than shelter. but i honestly think it's true.
when i really became convinced was with the travis scott fortnite concert. how people were losing their shit, utterly amazed, but it had everything to do with the visuals and nothing at all to do with the songs. i don't think they even modified the original audio in any way? so the music was very perfunctory. if i were a creative, adventurous little kid experiencing that, i'd start wanting to be a video game animator and wouldn't give a thought to music.
kind of like how teens used to be really into modifying their cars. (or so i hear from my dad lol.) it's still obviously a subculture that exists, around a topic that everyone engages with in some way or another. but obsessive interest in that is no longer a cultural force. you have to assume that there are forums around that hobby, full of boomers speculating as to why they're not getting many new recruits.
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pattycakes_
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linebaugh
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I was talking about that same effect recently with Travis Scott in mind. Its the artist in whole as a work of art, the surrounding culture as you said- the clothes, the videos, the carefully curated blogs, the self awareness of being a cultural agent. Working in schools I saw all the creative kids, who were into to Scott, Carti and Kanye, had multi faceted creative interests. When I was in highschool the most visible faction of creative kids were either in theater or did little more than obsessively play guitar and occasionally watch a Kubrick or Tarantino film. And if you were into the most popular rap artists you probably had little interests at all.
Leo
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there were always tons of options, but you had to spend hard-earned money to buy physical objects like vinyl and cassettes in order experience and enjoy those options. you had to weed through and be discerning, but that doesn't compare to having instant free access on youtube and spotify to nearly everything ever created.
Leo
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and then in the end, you say fuck all this new foodie culture bullshit, I have a dozen favorite dishes that I've eaten for years and love, I'm just going to indulge there and actually enjoy my meal. comfort food.
luka
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Having professional stylists assigned by the record company? Yeah I think it's different.
linebaugh
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Maybe Im not sure what you mean by stylists -theres a divergence between 'streetwear' and the high art/hip hop intermingling fashio,- but removed from context I think if I were to show a rando what the furious five were wearing in the 80's and what rappers are wearing now theyd say its a closer comparison than to what rappers were wearing just before this era in the aughts.