re: Now That the Culture Seems to Be Shifting, Will We See Music Groups Like The Eagles.....

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Would you mind explaining your theory on how the centralized, famously corrupt, and notoriously gatekeeping music industry monolith of the 1930s to 1990s pumped out a long line of classic, genuine, and earnest hits by the likes of Strawberry Alarm Clock, REO Speedwagon, Jefferson Starship, and the Bay City Rollers; yet today's industry— after having lost half its market share to independent artists has somehow gained the power to crush creativity?

Alongside of, and almost entirely because of rampant payola, mob ties, and oligarchic control, timeless gems like "Wang Bang Sweet Poontang," "I Can't Drive 55," and "Dude Looks Like a Lady" ruled the limited airwaves back then. Now, with democratized access enabling billions in indie revenue and viral breakthroughs, this diluted influence equates to more suppression of creativity?

That's nostalgia bias, not logic.

The Billboard Top 100s of the 60s–80s are just as full of vapid, forgettable bullshite as modern charts are today. This forces you guys to listen to, make everyone else listen to, and constantly proclaim the same couple dozen corporate butt-rock bands as "the best music era of all time"—despite the fact that, like today, 95% of popular music at that time sucked copious amounts of shite, and on top of that, most of you had to be spoon-fed the little bit that sort of didn't suck shite by industry gatekeepers. Then you spend 30 years treating every kid that you browbeat into saying Boston was rad [ so you'd finally shut the frick up about it] as proof of how cool you are for liking the same radio ready shite that almost every kid your age liked.

Liking Kiss or Led Zeppelin as a kid in the 70's didn't bestow you with musical insight and the right to look down on all other music for eternity. You just liked the same shite everyone else at your high school did. You'd be the kid listening to 'trap' and Taylor Swift today.

I don't really engage in generational hate or "Boomer" bashing, but the absolute hubris of a generation that forced pop culture to bow to their "greatness" for 50 years—due to nothing but shared monoculture, strength in numbers, and a remarkable ability to throw dollars at anything or anyone that plays along with their own aggrandized delusions about themselves— and then proclaim their music as the GOAT is breathtaking to witness. Never has a generation been more in love with their own farts.

frick the Eagles.

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