I wish jazz was still a popular form of music. And not just for "modern music sucks we should go back to the way things were decades ago baaaawww" reasons. And not that crappy modern jazz either. I'm not even going to bother making jokes about that, because I am reasonably certain that every possible joke that could be made about Kenny G has already been made. I'm talking about big band and swing, for the express purpose of THEY HAD THE MOST BADASS DANCES EVER. Seriously, check that mess out sometime. Hip-hop dancing, breakdancing in particular, can be cool in it's own way, but nothing beats a whole bunch of crazy bastards swing dancing to Benny Goodman. Those dances were awesome.
Furthermore, coolest outfits. Come on man, suits and fedoras and umbrellas and goddamn that is so much cooler than a pair of Vans. You could say a lot of things about the 30s. You could talk about the racism, and the Depression, and how pretty much all of their morals were horribly, horribly backward by our modern standards, but I think there is one thing you cannot deny: They had the classiest fashion sense in the world. I sort of like how the idea of really fancy-looking clothes being badass instead of lame is starting to make a comeback, because it's so much cooler.
But this sort of thing is sort of pointless to discuss. Popular music comes and goes, and twenty years from now, we'll have something new to complain about. The past few decades had some great popular music. This one and the previous one? Not a whole lot. So I'm going to wait it out. There'll probably be a grunge to modern hip-hop's hair metal some day soon.
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