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by _cudgel
3830 days ago
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> it never had any deep emotional or cultural impact to those who saw it in the first place. How could you possibly know what had a deep emotional impact on anyone other than yourself or possibly the people you interact with most closely in life? Here's an alternate proposal for you: You've grown as a person, and all the deep emotional impacts that music might be able to make on you have been made. To those still growing, you aren't able to assess the impact, because you now view the world through the eyes of an adult. Give it 30 years, and watch as all these things come back again into pop-culture because those kids from today will be in your shoes, as decision makers at TV/Internet/Whatever companies that push pop-culture -- being guided by their own sense of nostalgia about the things that impacted them as kids. |
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By being a human, involved with culture, and plain being able to see and place cultural artifacts upon certain contexts.
How do we know that a war has left "deep emotional impact" to lots of people other than ourselves or "possibly the people we interact with most closely in life"? Because we do, we know what war is, we know what it does to people, etc.
In the same way, we know what novelty pop hits are. As opposed to regular pop hits that mostly capture some teens attention for a few years (e.g. Bieber or NKOTB back in the day) and more involved pop that goes deeper.
>Here's an alternate proposal for you: You've grown as a person, and all the deep emotional impacts that music might be able to make on you have been made. To those still growing, you aren't able to assess the impact, because you now view the world through the eyes of an adult.
I'm quite atypical in this regard, as despite being mid-late-30s, I follow lots of music and still have deep emotional impact from all kinds of stuff, from techno to regular chart pop to some obscure garage-psychedelic or jazz record (I really like from The Residents to Westbam, Deep Freeze Mice and Mingus, and can even hum something like Redfoo's songs).
But even as a teenager, I can tell you that there were lots of novelty hits I went for that meant really nothing for me (or anyone else that forgot about them after their peak) and stuff that had deeper impact, which was of a different kind (could still be pop: it just wasn't a novelty track like, say, Cotton Eye Joe or The Scatman).