A half-formed thought

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So a big part of the story of 00s music was the 80s influence, which has reached some kind of a peak/avatar/godhead status with Lady GaGa I suppose.

SO the logic transition for the 2010s, whatever we end up calling them, is 90s retro, right? Presumably there should already be 90s retro stuff happening now, bubbling under the mainstream but ready to explode out over the course of the next decade.

New Britpop? Another grunge revival? A eurodance/rave-culture revival? Riotgrrl 2?

My thoughts here were prompted by the Blcak Eyed Peas's video for Imma Be/Rocking That Body, which at 10 minutes long and repetition-riffic seems to represent something of a transitional form between 80s-tinged electronica pop songs and dance epics. The BEP seems like a good cultural barometer at the moment.

Anyway uh /braindump, I clear floor now for cleverer people than me to say words.