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"Cultural Appropriation" is one of the most idiotic recent ideas - it's the absolute opposite of what pop-culture respectively the greatest pop music is about, namley cross-polination and resulting in something great and new.

A wild guess, could have something to do with accelerated technical and scientific innovation and socio-cultural change.

On the surface, yes.

Eurodance - from the UK:

The embodiment of Britishness.

Praising Timbaland is definitley closing the case.

Nothing, really. The "Futuristic" thing in the early to mid 90s was Wired Magazine (at least as how remember it from my teenage years) and the emerging internet. All the great things ahead - Virtual Reality! Video-On-Demand! The "Information Super-Highway!" well, that future is now here, and...

Music (as any other art) is always about the present- it's done in the present, with the means + instruments of the present. There is music that makes you curious about the future (of this particular genre or particular artist) - so you can't wait to hear the newest stuff due to the fact right...

It's somehow a fascinating thing to watch in all it's morbidity. That the "leading power" of the West has chosen a figure like Trump as its president makes it obvious: The West is on it's last legs. However, as I have written already elsewhere, despite the fact that some Westeners themselves...

Twitter - regarding politics at least - is great insofar as it shows how a lot of folks really are/what they really think. They post crap that they'd never say in let's say a debate due to all that "media-coaching" and such. It has great revealing-potential.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47442312

As much as I'd want this poison to go away, no signs of it. Quite on the contrary. Kids grow up with this, they are conditioned to it. They can't imagine a world without it.

Those Minimal-Techno heads are way worse. There are guys (especially Germany seems to be prone to that) who listen to that stuff for over 20 years now.

I am re-listening/re-watching and re-reading all the time. For me, I also sense a diference between re-listening to stuff I was actually closely following when it was current (like lots of 90s and 2000s electronical music) and stuff that I never experienced in it's time. I never listen to the...

Now that's interesting, given the context of the right wing BS regarding "Pizzagate" and the like...and since this is reaching back to the Dole times, the moral outrage regarding Clinton....

Western Democracies have been designed to be Plutocracies - from the very beginning. American Revolution, French Revolution - both under the umbrella of human rights, or rather - "the rights of man" as they were called, have always been "the rights of the property owning man".

As I understand it, that "Asian" hype was very much an early 90s thing. However, Cornershop had their most successful phase in the eraly 2000s if I remember correctly. Regarding Apache Indian, he actually had some minor success even "on the continent", I remember him touring Germany and Austria...

Monsoon scored a hit in the UK Charts with the above song (track) in may 1982. They had a singer of Indian descent named Sheila Chandra.

Was flipping thru my old music mags during the weekend.... Noticed there was a little hype going on regarding "Asians" in UK pop music of sorts. Pardon me though, I am neither British nor Asian, I know next to nothing about it, or even if it was a "thing" at all. There were Cornershop, Voodo...

"Cool" - ey? Another very 90s thing. Tarantino, Grand Royal, Beastie Boys, Shaft...