Thanks!
Quote:
|
what is the meaning of being alternative tho
|
I think what I'm trying to say is that in the early 2000s there was a stronger link between one's cultural, esp musical, tastes and one's identity, esp if you were an outsider of some description. You would hang out at one of the pubs in your town where they played weird music and meet like-minded people based on your shared taste for underground cinema or hardcore punk, whether you were a crust punk or a goth or whoever.
The impression I get from being around very bright and highly critical people who are in their early 20s today is that they 1) listen to whatever came out last week 2) would deem it weird and high-key problematic if someone told them that there is more to music than the global superstar they're obsessed with.
I know there are multiple biases informing this impression and yet I can't help feeling that on some level it has some broader truth to it.