What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years

  • nodiet@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I think two out of those believes stem from survivorship bias. You think of old music and consumer products as superior because the only ones that “survived” are the good ones. No one remembers bad music from 50 years ago, and for every old thermos flask/blender/knife that you see around there are dozens that broke years ago.

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      1 year ago

      There was song from the 60s (supposedly the best music everyone tells me) called “7 little girls”. The chorus went “7 little girls sitting the back seat kissing and hugging with Fred”

      Thankfully a mostly forgotten song now, but a clear example of how bloody awful pop music is not a new phenomenon.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I say yes for the music one, maybe not for the first. There are literally different materials being used and increasingly optimised-for-profit-to-effort-ratio processes. Many things are just straight up made more cheaply because we have the technology to do that.

      Although for the music one, a relevant lyric comes to mind:

      Hip hop? Buddy, don’t get me started

      So how do you get yourself charted?

      Kids love this stuff 'cause it’s so new

      Put in a sample from a pop song too

      You’ve got a hit, how come it sold?

      The melody and it’s 30 years old!

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        1 year ago

        Hip hop is pretty mainstream now but it started as counter culture. And I don’t think a sample in a song makes it similar to the sampled song. A lot of tracks that rely on samples completely create something new. Look at J Dilla who relied almost entirely on samples. His music isn’t a collection of old songs, it’s entirely new songs. I guess this thread is for boomer takes.

        • ccunix@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Or the Prodigy, who relied almost entirely on samples yet made some of the most exciting music we had ever heard.