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Yeah I remember the good old days when music was sane and normal, like Lee Scratch Perry and painting was done by level headed folks like Van Gogh…
Artists have always been weirdos and I love it.
I think a lot of it is *partly* art historical myth making. But I think the focus of the comment is more about modern (Gen X -imspired) like I'm so fuuuucked up dude hear me rooooar grrr type stuff. Which lady gaga seems to be channeling
that ole trope about gen x was propagated by people who either were not there or who were too retarded to grasp the spiritual zeitgeist of the times. and the gayop media.
the whole musical spirit of the era can perhaps best be desribed as an LSD-fueled spiritual cosmic acupuncture kind of release of the piled-high bullshit and fakery of the times...
it gave the kids an understanding that they were not alone and that it was ok to be feeling the way that they were - which was in direct contrast to the fake smiley consumerist blindness and acting hypocrisy of the times...
but i guess you had to be smart or inspired by the Holy Spirit to arrive at that conclusion...
by the way, thats all gone and the other superficial shit came back with a vengeance and rules the mainsteam now.
you really had to be there... and MANY who were actually there didnt seem to get it either - including some of the actual artists btw.... such is the mystery of God's work and the Spirit going where it listeth...
“the whole musical spirit of the era can perhaps best be desribed as an LSD-fueled spiritual cosmic acupuncture kind of release of the piled-high bullshit and fakery of the times...”
Nice.
Billy Corgan and Trent Reznor never lost sight.
Reznor was/is a big fan of a label who’s logo says Disturbing the comfortable, comforting the disturbed…
yeah it really was a magical time. the sense of Providence was absolutely palpable...
psychic powers everywhere, synchronicities, openness, finding true purpose etc...
after Cobain blew his own head off, I didnt see the spirit manifest in the culture again until 2015 with the rise of the Alt-Right.