Dear Hipster: I was listening to 91X the other day and I heard βEverything Now,β by Arcade Fire, and I thought for a second there was some previously unreleased Duran Duran tune. In a way thatβs high praise (because Duran Duran was legitimately awesome); but why does new music sound so much like β80s music? β Dennis
These days, the 1980s are so long ago that hipsters, musicians, and hipster musicians can nonironically evoke the classic sounds of Men at Work or Echo and the Bunnymen. The cool part of this whole phenomenon is that it just sort of happened. At some point, it was like somebody somewhere flipped a switch and the cheesy-yet-earnest sensibility of β80s pop music became cool again. Pinpointing the exact date when this occurred is impossible because it doesnβt work that way. Cool just becomes.
Dear Hipster: I was listening to 91X the other day and I heard βEverything Now,β by Arcade Fire, and I thought for a second there was some previously unreleased Duran Duran tune. In a way thatβs high praise (because Duran Duran was legitimately awesome); but why does new music sound so much like β80s music? β Dennis
These days, the 1980s are so long ago that hipsters, musicians, and hipster musicians can nonironically evoke the classic sounds of Men at Work or Echo and the Bunnymen. The cool part of this whole phenomenon is that it just sort of happened. At some point, it was like somebody somewhere flipped a switch and the cheesy-yet-earnest sensibility of β80s pop music became cool again. Pinpointing the exact date when this occurred is impossible because it doesnβt work that way. Cool just becomes.
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