I had a Mayan-style realisation today that mainstream music is on a downward spiral - obvious enough - but that it's possible to calculate exactly when actual musical armageddon is going to occur.
It's based on the "Revival" phenomenon - it seems to me that the musical styles that are getting 'revived' are increasingly recent, that is they're catching up with NOW. The void of originality is increasing in size like a black hole sucking the past ever closer, and by studying past revivals we can work out the point, almost to the day, when the apocalypse will occur.
To roughly plot two points on the graph... (1) I seem to remember there was a 60s revival during britpop in the mid to late 90s ('revival' here meaning that everyone realised the current music wasn't actually original, but it was too depressing to admit it). (2) I was recently told that the 90s are coming back in any time now. So that's 30 years for the first revival and 20 years for the second... do you see how this works?
I hope someone else gets it because I really can't be bothered to work the rest out but I want to know when it's going to happen so I can be ready...
Of course there are red herrings like the new Daft Punk album which is a pure disco revival but we can ignore that. We just can.
What will happen when the past catches up with us? Either it will overtake us and we will hurtle forwards into unknown and totally new and beautiful worlds of music, or there'll be an enormous explosion, the sound of which will echo forward into eternity, drowning out all other sounds. I thought that was what was happening when I accidentally switched on Capital FM today in the car and heard Ke$ha's new single.
Please let me know when you've worked it out and let's be ready to fill in the gap when there is finally total silence and we can start again for all the right reasons.
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