What has gone - and what young people can't understand - is the idea of adversarial energy in pop culture. The idea that being into punk meant rejecting progressive rock and Steely Dan sophisto-rock - it doesn't compute for them, these kind of schisms and divides. Streaming culture and the internet culture has eroded this idea. You can be into anything, you don't have to take sides. People still have things by which identity formation takes place, but music is not really part of that process. You can be into punk and alternative type rock, but also into rap, but also into dance music - all at the same time. . It's all there for the feasting on.
did an interview with a Swiss journo, no idea if he used the quotes... here they are (waste not want not as me old mum likes to say... anot
