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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo
Please elaborate on your insufferably negative and short comment. Explain why you do not like it or the band.
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This silly nostalgia trend that's been going on in underground music since the mid-2000s is insipid at best. Even in the eighties there wasn't such an active regression in music. When the "mainstream" is doing a better job of pushing forward three-chord musicality (via exploration of new technologies, instrumentation styles, syntheses with dub music and moving beyond dubstep even, creating new trends even if they're short lived as long as they are vaguely original, etc.) there is a major problem. Tame Impala continue this weird rockist bent where underground rock "strips down" and goes back to archaic forms for a certain aesthetic. The aesthetic is insufferable in its lack of real ideals beyond venerating "masters" (read: bands that give boomers hard-ons quicker than six viagra and welfare cuts) and continuing this dumb feedback loop rock music has found itself in. It would be one thing if bands like this were rejected, but the supposed bastions of cutting-edge new music are treating these people as visionaries when they're just sycophants. It's not cute, it's not interesting, it's all been done before, and I'd like the 21st Century to start now, please. Hip hop, for all the co-opting and diffusion of its politics that's occurred in the last few years, at least continues to try to grow and expand. Obviously, this isn't to say all rock music is bad "these days" or that there aren't serious concerns to be had with other spheres of music, but enough is enough; let's get some meaningful, contemporary rock music.