They Don't Make 'Em Like That Any More
It's a refrain that has been passed from generation to generation since, well, I don't know: They just don't make music like they used to. In response, youths have rightfully rolled their eyes at this closed outlook and proceeded to listen to, or perhaps make the antithesis of what their parents used to listen to. Elders' exasperation has been the fuel that fired the furnaces of youthful creativity. A couple of recent observations set me wondering if this cycle has been disrupted. Does it count as an observation if you listen to an article on the radio that asks if that asks that exact question? I suppose so, it's just that it's not my observation. There was a week at some point in the past couple of years (people just don't do the research to back up their half-baked ideas like they used to) where the list of acts in the the UK music chart's top 10 was uncannily similar to the top 10 exactly ten years earlier, specific