Brother, can you spare a DRM?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I remember around the time of Bush getting in and the dotcom bust a few articles (that great pop seer Jim DeRogatis may have written one!) saying, ah well at least this will be good for music as recessions mean a return to grassroots creativity and proper music not this manufactured etc etc.

But on the other hand you could just as easily argue that in bad economic times music can provide a bit of escapism and fantasy - Busby Berkeley dreams and all that.

Do you have a view on the effects of economic gloom on the 'mood' of pop - the type of things that are likely to get big?

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha, um, didn't marilyn manson write one of those articles?

"historically" economic gloom = DRESSING UP, viz teddy boys, glam, also new romantics, but i don't know if there are rly enough datapoints to "prove" this...

i think there's always so much music being made that you can use it to prove any half-arsed theory either way innit...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

ALSO ALTERN 8!! Point proved I think.

I wonder if there are different prevailing half-arsed theories in Britain and the US.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i guess so, given that all three of those were VERY uk-based scenes (or at least not "properly" big in america at the same time), but then economic badness hasn't always hit both countries at the same time...