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You mean we didn't?the year in which we were supposed have an apocalypse
You mean we didn't?the year in which we were supposed have an apocalypse
You mean we didn't?
Which year/decade would you say is the peak year/decade for happiness?
I listened to 1980s music for a long time, then switched over to 90s music and something happened there. The tone has changed a lot. Went from super happy music to depressing music like Nirvana or angry music like hip-hop.
I switched back to listening to 80s.
I was going to say every decade. But, then I realized you weren't talking about one's own life, but pop music instead.Which year/decade would you say is the peak year/decade for happiness?
I listened to 1980s music for a long time, then switched over to 90s music and something happened there. The tone has changed a lot. Went from super happy music to depressing music like Nirvana or angry music like hip-hop.
I switched back to listening to 80s.
The song lyrics are negative but you cant help but feel good listening to this one
Which year/decade would you say is the peak year/decade for happiness?
I listened to 1980s music for a long time, then switched over to 90s music and something happened there. The tone has changed a lot. Went from super happy music to depressing music like Nirvana or angry music like hip-hop.
I switched back to listening to 80s.
New Jack Swing in the early 90s was kind of the last gasp of that 80s vibe...
80s rap was fun. I was reading an article about rapstars from the 80s and when the 90s rolled around with gangsta rap, these guys who were selling millions of records all of a sudden couldn't get producers to return their calls. They all said it was like a light switch had been flipped even though just last year, they were killing it. It was like the entire industry rather than the consumers decided that we are done with this stuff.
Yeah Hammer tried to go gangster and didn't sound that bad but just couldn't make the transition.
Most of the early big names like Kool Moe Dee and Run DMC and The Fat Boys and even Heavy D sounded pretty primitive once the new breed came along. Rapping twice as fast and also the talented ones like 2Pac were basically like stand up comedians with their lyrics as well.
It just sounded silly to look back and hear the Sugarhill Gang rapping about how their friend's Mom was bad at cooking or whatever. Some comedian had a bit about that...can't remember who but it was pretty good.
I like all that old stuff pre gangster but come the mid 90s they were like salmon and trout trying to swim with sharks. I guess the same thing kind of happened with techno / synth artists like Gary Numan or Kraftwerk once that genre shifted. Something like Gary Numan / Cars could probably never have been a hit other than exactly when it came out.
There is part of me that wonders if this was in response to producers getting burned by disco. I think the death of disco was intrinsically linked to the AIDS epidemic and the right wing getting stick in their ass about anything sexual or gay. There is a lot of bad disco music (Kiss is so bad and maybe had one good song their entire careers), which is like any other genre, but there is a lot of it that was fun and slapped pretty hard.
I dig disco. Claudja Barry, Donna Summer had some good stuff, Arabesque a good song or two.
I can probably name ten Kiss songs I would be happy to hear. Only disco one that comes to mind is I Was Made for Loving You though.