I don't agree that "Retromania" should die off. I really don't have the grasp of what he means by Retromania and all what it entails. However in art there has always a blend of tradition and innovation. Even outside of art, most inventions are just improvements of past invention.
I don't agree with him when he says (~ 0:30) "...hence the biggest advancement in Rock n Roll are in electronic music." I don't know what sub-genres he is referring when he says "electronic music" in that statement, but nothing more is retro than Minimal Wave. It took about a good ten years of dub-step being underground before it reach mainstream attention. Not to mention that hip hop, breakbeat, drum and bass etc all delve into the past for samples like 40, 50 years into the past. Even bizarre genres like Vaporwave and Nightcore are in no means divorced from the past, just a twisted reinterpretation of it.
I don't know if there can be a clean break from and with no reference to the past. What fuels Retromania is the preservation of information, in this generation there is more information of the past that is preserved than other generation had privileged to have in the past. Retromania is just a by-product of the age of information.
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Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
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