I've definitely been struck by the fact that hip-hop has not been supplanted by another musical form, so that the music that my son listens to is essentially the same in kind to what I listened to at his age.
Good discussion of the limits of movies vs TV, musical horizons, and the avant-garde, but I was hoping for more discussion about whether video games as an art form have stagnated, especially with the recent release of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by a small French studio. Maybe that can be a sequel.
Could start with what happened during the 1980s with Atari and all that, go through the technological changes of new chips and hardware, the arcade scene, the CD game boom (discuss Ys I and II before Final Fantasy 7 please!), pre-rendered graphics boom, 3D boom, etc... and end with VR. 🧐
Agreed. American pop culture has been eating itself for a while. Thanks post-modernism and Disney. But, my favorite takeaway from this article was the reference to Chokeberry from Pony. Great share, Mr. Smith, and a great listen.
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