What are you listening to?
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And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
Re: What are you listening to?
Some of the comments are right; it's very evident when you listen to it just how strong of a connection there was between late 60s British rock/mod music and 90s Britpop. This could have been released 30 years later and not sounded out of place at all
And in saying that one has to admit something: that's probably why a good chunk of 60s music is still relevant today, when a lot of 50s music fell off decades ago. Some 60s songs sound like they could have been released at any point in the past 30 years
Like this one:
If I, and my grandmother, wasn't already familiar with it, I'd not be surprised if this was some modern R&B-ish neo-soul pop song trying to go for that old moody style, but nope, 1961.
There's still a lot of "period" era songs, especially once you get into doo-wop and psychedelia, but I'd say that's the decade when a larger chunk of it starts holding up to modern scrutiny than any prior decade. You couldn't play most 30s, 40s, or 50s pop songs without it sounding "old" even by the 80s.
And on a semi-related note, it also throws into total disarray the old sensibility that "average characters referencing contemporary pop culture in science fiction stories is unrealistic and instantly dated." At one point in time, the idea that people in a space ship would be listening to a vinyl record of the Beatles would have been seen as utterly kitsch and nonsensical or at least extremely quirky because why would people in the future be listening to some pop band from today? If in 1966 someone wrote a sci-fi short about a manned mission to the moon in the 2020s where one of the astronauts put on the Beatles, readers would either think "This writer is way too into the Beatles" or "there's no way anyone 60 years from now will even remember the Beatles, that's like some astronaut today putting on a Scott Joplin record. Maybe if it was some Strauss or Beethoven, but who in the space-faring future will care about disposable pop acts?"
Yet if the crew of Artemis II did this on an infinitely more advanced smartphone streaming service, literally no one would bat an eye. In fact, because recorded on-demand media essentially created an artificial long-short term memory exocortex for all human culture (which is a major reason why artists who would have been pure FOTM 20 years ago are somehow still relevant today), it's quite plausible that even the first humans who eventually go to Alpha Centauri will still be actively listening to the Beatles and probably most current-day music, alongside whatever they have then
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
Re: What are you listening to?
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
Re: What are you listening to?
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future