TomNook7 | Posted 7/16/2011 6:09:53 AM | message detail | quote
The 90's was a good decade for mainstream music, despite the boy bands. We had everything from Nirvana to Nas. I'd say once Nickelback rolled around is when mainstream music started to decline. And 80's pop was awesome, how could you hate New Wave.
Nickelback is so freakin' 90's, what are you even talking about. And I have no friggin' idea why Nirvana is so heavily romanticized but I really don't want to get into that.
I don't hate new wave. A lot of new wave is cool. A lot of it f***in' sucked. You probably just don't remember because it's not the 80's anymore.
Selective memory is a powerful thing. I'm making a mental note of the conversations we're having about modern music, because I want to re-evaluate what they look like thirty years from now. We'll probably only remember the good stuff and forget all the s*** - and some of the stuff we think is s*** now will reveal itself as revolutionary. But we'll all be old and crotchety and think it sucks anyway.
Also Lady Gaga is honestly pretty good, while not particularly groundbreaking. I'd rather listen to it than a lot of stuff the past decades have churned out. We'll remember her in 50 years.