sphincter wrote: This decade has been amazing musically.
...you guys care more about clothes and fashion and whatnot than these scene kids you make fun of.
yep, a lot of great music has come out, and technology has allowed us to immerse ourselves in masses of it for cheap. i think it's cool, i'm not complaining. i'm just responding to minotaur's notion that we're too sterile to be dated, and his quote of stanhope that this decade's fashion is so "normal" that it's fashionless and impossible to be emulated by future retro.
my point is: no decade is normal or fashionless, there's always a fashion, it seems normal because you're in the midst of it and you define it in hindsight.
and while it may seem horrifying, 20 years from now there will probably be bands named "top 8" or "top friends" or "friendster or myspace" just like there's "vhs or beta". there may be people deliberately going for the swishy cymbal sound of 128 kbps mp3s or low-res youtube files. there will be further transfigured imitations, imitations of imitations -- there'll be the 2025 version of the 2005 version of the 1985 fashion. there'll be books retelling the early "true underground" of the furvert scene, which seems on the verge of being as mainstream a clique as goths or ravers or hippies. "you had to be there!" actually, probably won't be in book format... probably just some long-ass blog post. there'll be people who first fell in love on the im. hell that's already happened. anyway i'm babbling now but my point is:
things that seem new and/or sterile will absolutely become imbued with nostalgia and get the full retro treatment.
