I'd say it was when the government created hippies in order to tame the formerly great genre of rock'n'roll by inverting it's values from "live dangerously" to a pathetic message of "peace and love". Well, that's pops greatest achievement anyways. Also when major labels realized they could repackage pop music, call it black metal, and sell satyricon records too all the underground kiddies who thought they were sticking to the man by buying it but were actually lining his pockets. Never thought they could do that to such an inherently anti-commercial seeming genre, but I guess pop mentallity can triumph over anything.
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