So a big part of the story of 00s music was the 80s influence, which has reached some kind of a peak/avatar/godhead status with Lady GaGa I suppose
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i'm noticing a lot of people going mad when i play old rave and acid house music. maybe its what the kids were being made to listen to when they were babies by their parents...
Gaga is as much 90s as 80s - slamming eurodance beatz and there's even a Human Resource hoovernoise sample lurking under "Bad Romance"
All dance ex-genres exist in states of perpetual suspension in the rave bloodstream but some of the 90s revivalism is REALLY flagrant - "Where Were U In 92" by Zomby, post-dubstep that sounds more than a bit like Warp-era IDM...
Definitely alt.rock revivals happening - more so than strict 'grunge' I think, more Dinosaur Jr than Soundgarden. Or so my contacts inform me, I haven't listened to any of this stuff.
Britpop's clammy clutches have barely loosened or so it feels to me, I'd give it a few more years.
BTW that should be a semi-colon not a comma between Zomby and "post-dubstep": Zomby is post-dubstep (I think!) but I'm not trying to describe his record in that second clause.
I have a feeling that I'll be very bad at picking up the signifiers as what counts as '80s and '90s anyway, esp. since '90s British dance music was something I only got smatterings of here and there, not something the unfolding of which I lived through. Also, there's a difference between drawing on something and coming across as a revivalist. E.g., GaGa doesn't come across as a revivalist, even if some of her influences are clear. In '62, '63, '64 Britain a lot of performers were blatantly drawing on mid '50s America, while mixing it into early '60s America. These performers (Beatles, Stones, etc.) didn't come across as revivalists
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Good point on revivalist vs drawing on - even when Gaga is doing actual pastiche, like "Sleepless", she's not coming across as 'reviving' anything in the way that the Zomby album was. But there's a lot of 1990s in the pool of material she's drawing on.
I heard a couple of singles last year and the year before where I very strongly thought, "OK, they're trying for a turn-of-the-00s Destiny's Child sound" (production-wise not so much vocal-wise - something about the hi-hats and the thin harpsichord-y sound DC had on some Writing's On The Wall tracks). Frustratingly I can't remember what they were - one of the Keri Hilson tracks? A teenpop thing? Argh.
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All dance ex-genres exist in states of perpetual suspension in the rave bloodstream but some of the 90s revivalism is REALLY flagrant - "Where Were U In 92" by Zomby, post-dubstep that sounds more than a bit like Warp-era IDM...
Definitely alt.rock revivals happening - more so than strict 'grunge' I think, more Dinosaur Jr than Soundgarden. Or so my contacts inform me, I haven't listened to any of this stuff.
Britpop's clammy clutches have barely loosened or so it feels to me, I'd give it a few more years.
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I heard a couple of singles last year and the year before where I very strongly thought, "OK, they're trying for a turn-of-the-00s Destiny's Child sound" (production-wise not so much vocal-wise - something about the hi-hats and the thin harpsichord-y sound DC had on some Writing's On The Wall tracks). Frustratingly I can't remember what they were - one of the Keri Hilson tracks? A teenpop thing? Argh.
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