The opening notes of Devo’s “That’s Good” begin to play. The synthesizer is instantly recognizable for anyone familiar with the new wave sounds of the 80s. A narrator tells us, “My mixtapes bend others to my will. It's a strange, almost cosmic talent.” She invites us to “go back to a time where summers lasted forever, when friendships were unbreakable, and any trouble was good trouble.”
A perfectly stated, warrantedly brutal takedown. Nostalgia has been my enemy since 1988; when the commodified "boom" of "Classic Rock" radio and culture pushed the music culture I worked to be part of to the margins, from which it has never fully returned.
Nostalgia has been too long condoned for forging the past into a weapon against the present.
A perfectly stated, warrantedly brutal takedown. Nostalgia has been my enemy since 1988; when the commodified "boom" of "Classic Rock" radio and culture pushed the music culture I worked to be part of to the margins, from which it has never fully returned.
Nostalgia has been too long condoned for forging the past into a weapon against the present.
thank you!