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yeah, I was also bemused, yet... morbidly fascinated when I first came across this Scene stuff too... Seems completely disposable, yet somehow I get the feeling this is just the beginning of the internet producing these weird social-networking-based scenes. I mean 4chan has it's own subculture...

is that kid in BrokenCYDE who just goes "braaAAAAAAHHHHhh!" like the Screamo version of Lil John or something?

Haha, yeah, it's actually a scene called "Scene". I've seen a few of them on the /mu/ board. Very Web 2.0. It seems to be what happened when the more popular, less depressed teenagers got a hold of the Emo image after it went mainstream and mixed with Mallgoth and Mallmetal into, um...

hahaha maybe I'm just feeling older, but so far I haven't been able to pick up one redeeming point to that whole 00s "Scene/Br00tal Kids" phenomenon. It's about being rich, white, suburban, popular, and bratty right? Teens will be teens I guess, but it's weird seeing the first internet-born...

That's interesting, Tea, and very true I'm sure. Although, there's something to be said for all the obstentation, it's almost Brechtian. I'm interested sometimes by the information that can be sent or discovered through simple gestures. All the showiness in music scenes, are kind of like...

yeah, and I guess I'm over-estimating people's intentions. I probably only need to recall some of the more shmoozing, preening assholes in L.A. to remember that there can be a bad "faking it" (google "cobrasnake"). I'd still say that this front put on still comes from their true self, is an...

who gets to decide which "image" or "self" a person has is the real one? psychologists? professors or intellectuals with prestige? assholes on the internet? Gotta agree with Zhao here, on letting people "become" and "fake it". Personally, I don't believe there is a 'faking it'. Even if...

Yeah, as far as that last point, I was speculating more along the lines of a yet undefinable shift in feeling across all styles, cultures, demographics. Like the cultural climate that shaped the Motown vibe (not that I'm by any means crossing my fingers for Motown 2: Electric Boogaloo). I've...

Josef, I suspect you and I may subscribe to veerrrry different cosmologies (or are at the very least prefer different imagery), but whatevs, it's all good. Have some more graph silliness. ;)

this is, like, just my opinion, but... yeah, I think this album is f'in brilliant. Besides being a landmark of aesthetic innovation though, it, more crucially I think, resonates on all the right spiritual notes... hmmm, how to clumsily illustrate this... k, here goes. Kick ur feat up...

Damn, well if it's already been redone, I guess I'll just have to catch it on it's third-wave post-ironic simularcra phase, I, I mean not catch it... like, just do it by accident and then quickly discard it in disdain before anyone even catches on. OMG, I've totally been wondering what...

WAU. I... I almost like those. I have an unsettling feeling those'll start looking pretty good soon, if the local retro-forecast holds up anyway...

haha totally. Yeah I know some hipster-ish guys who wear bandanas in their back pockets for some reason... "er, guys, you DO know what that means, right?" hell, maybe they do know and I've just been in the dark about a few things.

and here I thought that this thread was going to be about the profound influence of Madchester. I did read somewhere that sagged pants originally meant you were the prison bitch...? Similar to the origin of the word "punk". Surely it's only a matter of time before there's a super badass...

WTF 4chan memes making it all the way to Dissensus? How DID that cesspool end up having so much cultural influence? ¯\(°_o)/¯

Has anyone heard that Skynet Uk track "Back to 89", Calverton remix (that you can hear right here)? That actually sounds more like "Back to 92"? ...this thread kind of reminded me of it. With all the Acieeed rivivals going on for so long now, kinda nice to hear manic Ardcore sounds...

True but doesn't that beat (that's also the Northern Soul beat isn't it?) usually also have a kick going under the snares at the same time (at the very least one kick boom marking off the first beat)? Hm, regardless, good point... and the Northern Soul does have a very light on it's toes...

I think it's kinda both... There's always that balance in arts/music/dance/well everything, between the rules and laws that define the parameters of a self-contained world*, and the areas where there's room for infinite variation. That balance of form and chaos. If these definitive rules are...