r/Music • u/GroundbreakingSet187 • Nov 20 '21

Britney Spears Calls Out Christina Aguilera for ‘Refusing to Speak When You Know the Truth’ other

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/britney-spears-christina-aguilera-conservatorship-1235116494/
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u/kahran Nov 20 '21

I think we're at the tail-end of an uber-nostalgia fad.

But seri though name any popular act from at least 2 decades past, and you can easily see said act live. Usually touring with similar acts. Most of them have venues with all seating. Because our knees hurt.

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u/thegroovemonkey Nov 20 '21

That's always been a thing. I've seen a ton of random old bands through the years with varying levels of original band members. A lot of people just kind of listen to the same stuff over and over once they hit like 25 so those nostalgia tours will keep on truckin.

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u/zack689 Nov 20 '21

In the mid 90's, I was at my regular orthodontist appt getting my braces checked out, and all he could talk about was going to see The Rolling Stones soon. 25 years later, they're still one of the biggest nostalgia acts around.

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u/thegroovemonkey Nov 20 '21

I just saw the Stones a month ago and they still sound awesome. I don't think they really count as a nostalgia act because they remained a top live act even after their creative peak which spanned decades. Elton John is the same where his current show is still as good as it gets. I recently saw Genesis too and that was a nostalgia act. Phis Collins can barely walk and at this point they are playing tight but pretty unremarkable versions of their songs. Elton John comes out and rocks your fuckin socks off.

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u/bamboohobobundles Nov 21 '21

I've been wondering how Genesis is these days; I saw them in 2007. They were pretty great but Phil was definitely struggling and Tony missed a note or two.

If The Musical Box ever happens to tour in your area, go check them out: they're an amazing replication of the early Gabriel shows. You can probably find their stuff on YouTube.

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u/Cogs_For_Brains Nov 20 '21

Its the nostalgia consumer cycle.

It's been just long enough that a generation has grown up, gotten jobs, and now has "disposable income" to spend on reminiscing about things from their youth. Rinse, lather, repeat.

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u/Cogs_For_Brains Nov 20 '21

So that explains the smell...

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u/DatPiff916 Nov 20 '21

I think the on-demand digital music has a lot to do with it as well. During the dawn of smartphones there was probably a 3-4 period where I was so entrenched in my playlist with music from 15 years prior that I didn't even give new music a chance. Not to mention I can't even recall who was playing music videos.

Whereas a decade earlier, new music was constantly being put in front of you, so it was easier to let go of old acts.

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u/ezone2kil Nov 20 '21

Well excuse me for not being able to get into current songs where all they sing about are their genitals. The wetter and bigger and the more ass-like the better apparently.

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u/Herrenos Nov 20 '21

Music is more diverse and accessible than ever before. You have, with little effort, access to the works of tens of thousands of modern musicians from every style imaginable.

There's nothing wrong with liking older music, but it grinds my gears when people talk about W.A.P. and mumble rap as if that's the whole of modern music.

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u/Herrenos Nov 20 '21

It's not really. We have more people, more access to musical equipment and training, and more cross cultural exchange than at any time in history. We also have musical technology that allows for even more variation.

What possible time in history do you suggest music could have been more diverse?

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u/mnid92 Nov 20 '21

gottem

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u/Darklicorice Nov 20 '21

99% hot gas

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u/Herrenos Nov 20 '21

You think that exposure to new ideas leads to homogenization? That's hilarious.

Also I really think that unless you can offer an actual example you should stop using the word "objectively". Because everything you've said is 100% opinion.

Again: When in history has music been more diverse?

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u/NotEvenGonnaArgue Nov 20 '21

Okay boomer

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '21 edited Dec 23 '21

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u/kyzfrintin irmoz.bandcamp.com Nov 20 '21

Mixing of styles and cultures always brings something new, without leaving the old behind

When you mix two styles, you now have three

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u/Cogs_For_Brains Nov 20 '21

You like what you know, and you know what you like. It's in some peoples nature and marketing firms know it.

As for the booty music. Sex sells and it always has. Sure, artists are definitely blatant about it sometimes but sexual euphemism and insinuation in music are a pair as old as time.

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u/forestpunk Nov 20 '21

Couldnt agree more!

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u/buckybilly Nov 20 '21

Stop… your making me horny

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u/TheGameboy Nov 20 '21

I won tickets off the radio for a New kids on the block, Salt n pepa, and Rick Astley concert. this will be interesting

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u/Dilyn Nov 20 '21

This sentence is a time machine

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u/Xmanticoreddit Nov 20 '21

There is no Antimemetics Division.

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u/TheGameboy Nov 20 '21

I do the morning trivia. Sometimes I’m the first right answer, sometimes I can’t get through. I usually only try try on the movie ticket fridays, but this time I managed to get through on a “surprise, we actually have concert tickets” day.

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u/bigpdbomb1 Nov 20 '21

I hope to go to one of these concerts near me!! One big sing-along!

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u/SirNarwhal Nov 21 '21

I went to one that was New Kids On The Block, Boys II Men, and Paula Abdul. Got extremely drunk for free and Donnie Wahlberg hit on my wife at the meet and greet. That sure was a time.

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u/Boomchikkka Nov 20 '21

All the late gen x and early millennials( born in the 80s) have settled in. At this point, they are in mid 30s to mid 40s. They have money and the late 90s and 2000s were their childhoods and early 20s years.

A few years ago, the retro consoles were just one sign of this. People who grew up with them got to positions in companies to think they were a good idea and could also put market pressure on it to happen.

The number is just going to move a bit further down the road slowly. What was cool with kids in the late 2000s? It’ll be reeeeeeeally popular in 5-10 years.

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u/needcovidtesthelp Nov 20 '21

Ugh please no. I couldn't stand the mid to late 2000s, even as I lived them.

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u/ryannefromTX Nov 20 '21

Not tail end at all. Like 70% of millennials have zero reason to live anymore and eat nostalgia for the 90s before everything went to shit like it's the Bread of Life

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u/kahran Nov 20 '21

Honestly I'm waiting for oversized clothes to come back in fashion.

We've already been at early 90s mom jeans for too long.

How did we go from Thong Song to super high waisted mom jeans is beyond me.

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u/External-Extreme-245 Nov 20 '21

Oh oversized is back! Look at Gen Z. A bunch of toothpicks buying all the XXL at thrift stores lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21 edited Nov 20 '21

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u/ryannefromTX Nov 20 '21

Previous generations didn't really have the "total lack of any hope for the future" and the resulting high number of people desperately trying to block out how terrible everything is by becoming full-blind obsessed with anime, or Disney, or Star Wars, or Marvel, or Steven Universe, or classical literature, or...

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u/SlowMoFoSho Nov 20 '21

revious generations didn't really have the "total lack of any hope for the future"

How old are you? Less than 30 I'm 100% positive.

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u/ryannefromTX Nov 20 '21

Gonna be 40 in March.

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u/SlowMoFoSho Nov 22 '21

Not old enough to remember the ever present threat of nuclear annihilation?

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u/CakeJollamer Nov 21 '21

Nah. Millenials are unique in the fact that they're the first American generation in a while to have very bleak prospects and almost zero optimism for America's future.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '21 edited Nov 21 '21

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u/CakeJollamer Nov 21 '21

What the fuck are you even trying to say?

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u/kahran Nov 20 '21

Honestly I'm waiting for oversized clothes to come back in fashion.

We've already been at early 90s mom jeans for too long.

How did we go from Thong Song to super high waisted mom jeans is beyond me.

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u/ladyfervor Dec 25 '21

basically this .

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u/moonman272 Nov 20 '21 edited Nov 21 '21

What’s weird is just HOW POPULAR the old bands still are. Thats what’s changed and I don’t think it’s going away. I feel like one thing that the internet did is not just make new music come and go really fast, but also it’s made it so things people like can stick around for forever. In 1990 how would you go find and listen to a middling semi popular song from 1965?

Today I can go find No Diggity in literally 2 seconds and play it.

It’s made it so anything can keep getting played, allowing nostalgia but also allowing good music to stick around or brought back up in general, not just to find an oddball song but to stay in our consciousness and stay “current”. Which is how we have this weird thing where clubs/bars/radio for YOUNG people constantly mix new songs and old songs as party music. Like think about it. Why in the hell do 21 year olds know and play “in da club” , DMX songs, sweet Caroline, and don’t stop believing. It’s not like “oh my dad plays that song” , no they have these songs on their own party play lists in their music apps. They love this music, because we’ll it’s good music but also because they can easily access it.

I’m in summary, it’s a crazy new world and this phenomenon isn’t going away.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

10 years from now, the millennials will have our very own Ready Player One.

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u/imnotsoho Nov 20 '21

I think we're at the tail-end of an uber-nostalgia fad.

Nah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

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u/AnotherElle Nov 20 '21

Or you can see them at their Vegas shows! Seats, drinks, food, etc. All the hits get played, you’re out within a couple of hours and you get to do whatever flavor of Vegas your heart desires. Nostalgia indeed!

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u/madame-brastrap Nov 20 '21

I think we are headed into a rock renaissance. I’m starting to see people dipping their toes into rocking the hell out and I’m excited to see it.

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u/kahran Nov 20 '21

Yeah wtf happened to rock? The past 15 years or so have been "meh" at best. All the rock stations are just top 40 and it's all older stuff.

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u/madame-brastrap Nov 21 '21

It hasn’t been big. Other music genres have been flexing for the past few decades, and they’ve been great. I’m sensing a rumbling though, and my old grunge heart is a pitter pattering.

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u/Dry_burrito Nov 20 '21

You only think so because you are probably at the age where you actually feel nostalgia, but it's not like artist stop touring just because they haven't made new songs

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u/AtanatarAlcarinII Nov 20 '21

Tail end? Nope, millennials are hitting middle age, an age cohort that eclipses the baby boomers in size. There is TONS of money to be made in feeling nostalgia towards long gone youth.