whats wrong with 2009
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- colin_s0
the problem with media criticism is disseminating feeling jaded to realizing how pioneers tend to control authorship. black flag wasn't the best hardcore band ever, but they did it first and best for when that style was starting out, and so "my war" and "damaged" become staples, because it was said in that manner first. innovation breeds attention, unless you're really fucking good at doing something that's been done (say what green day has done for pop / mainstream punk).
however, where you're right is that a lot of new music is simply appropriation of the old in the worst ways. that band brokencyde is neo-liberalism coming back to haunt us all; the "anything you want" mentality bleeding into "art" and so the suburban lack of direction / silver spoon gets fed to kids with lots of money and no talent but grew up on bad (read: not the innovative) MTV.
generation X was a definitive generation of innovation through apathy, generation Y took sort of the craft of X and molded it into some post-cultural, but still aware, hellhole of sound and visuals. a lot of that is real good, i mean movies like "half nelson" really reflect the absent, drug addled problems of a class war that a lot of us never asked or wanted to fight, or care about continuing.
however the new generation is killing off most of this and there is plenty of blame to go around. too much technology, not enough real emotion to go along with real interaction; just because we don't yet have autonomous artificial intelligence doesn't mean most intelligence has become artificial.
anyway, i guess i'm saying i agree with you on a lot of fronts, but being an asshole is easy. craft pointed messages with a described thesis and you'll get a more positive response to what you have to say or else you just sound like a grump. i should know, i am one.