#36

Historians believing history exists, quelle surprise.

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#37

Edit : I misunderstood the joke

#38

I’m never quite sure if it was ‘popular culture’ (more so music) that stalled 20 years ago or I did. It appears to me that there aren’t the very specific cultures/movements in the music charts like there were when I was growing up. I was born in 1967 and got into music at a fairly early age so had first-hand experience of glam, heavy metal, punk, new romantic, techno, house, rap, grunge, brit-pop etc. Just doesn’t seem to be the genre shifts these days that there were between 1970 and 2000. If anything, the advent of music being ‘on-demand’, the ability to instantly access pretty much any track from any era, has meant that the overriding ‘movement’ of the past 20 years has been nostalgia.
Or, I might just be old and out of touch.

#39

This lyric (well, almost) also available from The Magnetic Fields:

#40

As a historian, I concur

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#41

no fuck what

Twenty years ago Pink released “Get The Party Started” - Music - Drowned in Sound | Community

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#42

This one feels fine I’m afraid

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#43

Keep reading this title with “never for money, always for love, cover up and say goodniiiiiight”

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#44

yeah but you’re old

#45

Yes, and so is Pink’s “Get the Party Started”

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#46

so much of my life has been spent traumatised that years and years have just passed by without me being present

#47

like, time sped up to the point it was an indistinct/grey/unfelt blur through my twenties, then in summer 2017, it slowed right down

for spells, I was able to be present, feeling life not flinching from it

I wouldn’t be surprised if all the undiagnosed trauma in the world is behind a lot of time speeding by

#48

Six week long summer holidays felt like an era when you were a kid. I feel quite lucky I haven’t been a teenager during the pandemic.

I’m also confused as to whether the lack of subcultural differences are due to the technological change compared to the 90s and before. Whether the speed of communication from the Internet generally allows trends to spread quicker which stops these bubbles that led to punk etc (language and slang seem more homogenised to me through different English speaking nations) seems or I’m just old and don’t understand.

People are ‘settling down’ later and choosing to have fewer or no children. I’d like to understand whether this due to societal changes and religions waning influence in the west or whether gradual depreciating economy is causing this shift.

#49

I see a lot of tiktoks on Instagram and there are a shocking amount from kids who are nostalgic for 2000-2015 :sob: felt like an antique, but tbh half the stuff we used then is already retro like flip phones, portable cd players, ipods etc 🥲

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#50

Early 2000s i understand, like that was a whole different time but people specifically nostalgic for that period around 2013/2014 when there were moustaches on everything and people wore stuff like galaxy printed tights on tumblr disturbed me, it feels like yesterday :sob:

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#51

I can’t stop re-reading this in the voice of Stewart Lee

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#52

Now you point it out, I’ve probably subconsciously ripped it off from him. I think he said a similar line about Jason Manford (maybe?) in a routine once.

#53

the other day I saw it was D’Arcy from the smashing pumpkins birthday and she is 53, weird how those formative bands you get into as a kid start off being twice your age, then you overtake them and become older than they were when they were doing their best work and then you end up age 40 when 13 years difference doesnt seem like that big a gap and you are broadly in the same generation to them. obviously not actually weird but feels weird

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#54

pop stars from when I was young, who at the time seemed really old cos they were famous include Bradley from S Club 7 and Britney Spears who are both 39… which I consider to be pretty close to me in age (I’m 32)

#55

fucking hell Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud is 35

that’s basically the same age as me