How far can we go?
After watching some car company rape yet another classic rock song, this time Heart's Barracuda, I was struck with the thought that this song is now tame by any measure compared to current music, but what will be current when the current music becomes tame?
Technology has allowed many things, though mostly just to augment mans inherently selfish ability to shit in his own bed, so to speak, but one of the things it has allowed is modern generations to distance themselves much further than ever before from the generation of their parents form which we all eventually rebel.
At one time, rock music like they play in middle aged targeted car commercials was what kids listened to to piss off their parents. Music is a significant generational divider. But before that, the mainstream music of the day was before that what their parents listened to to piss of their parents, and on down the line through modern history, probably until about the 20's or so. Before that everything was chamber music or vaudeville/carnival music.
So what technology has allowed in this instance is the rapid advancement of generational division. But by doing so it has also accelerated the devolution of popular culture as each subsequent generation strives to find something to set itself apart from the previous generations.
My question then, being, how far can we go? We've already mainstreamed so called gangsta rap, how far can you go from killin' cops and cappin' ho's and doing it all with a gold tooth smile? Where do you go from there?
Maybe we hit a wall, and experience a backlash, sort of devolve back a few generations, reset our clock so to speak?
Or do we just keep marching blindly into the unknown?
Technology has allowed many things, though mostly just to augment mans inherently selfish ability to shit in his own bed, so to speak, but one of the things it has allowed is modern generations to distance themselves much further than ever before from the generation of their parents form which we all eventually rebel.
At one time, rock music like they play in middle aged targeted car commercials was what kids listened to to piss off their parents. Music is a significant generational divider. But before that, the mainstream music of the day was before that what their parents listened to to piss of their parents, and on down the line through modern history, probably until about the 20's or so. Before that everything was chamber music or vaudeville/carnival music.
So what technology has allowed in this instance is the rapid advancement of generational division. But by doing so it has also accelerated the devolution of popular culture as each subsequent generation strives to find something to set itself apart from the previous generations.
My question then, being, how far can we go? We've already mainstreamed so called gangsta rap, how far can you go from killin' cops and cappin' ho's and doing it all with a gold tooth smile? Where do you go from there?
Maybe we hit a wall, and experience a backlash, sort of devolve back a few generations, reset our clock so to speak?
Or do we just keep marching blindly into the unknown?
posted by opus512 at 8:07 PM
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