I have a feeling that I'll be very bad at picking up the signifiers as what counts as '80s and '90s anyway, esp. since '90s British dance music was something I only got smatterings of here and there, not something the unfolding of which I lived through. Also, there's a difference between drawing on something and coming across as a revivalist. E.g., GaGa doesn't come across as a revivalist, even if some of her influences are clear. In '62, '63, '64 Britain a lot of performers were blatantly drawing on mid '50s America, while mixing it into early '60s America. These performers (Beatles, Stones, etc.) didn't come across as revivalists.
I didn't get a strong sense of sociomusical forward motion in the '00s, which means that hearing something now with a Destiny's Child or an Aaliyah sound (for instance) won't necessarily make me think, "Oh, that's from back then," since it won't necessarily sound as if it'd had been superseded or out of play. Or am I wrong? With dance pop in particular, very few people in the target audiences are going to give a damn one way or another what year and in what circumstances the beat and textures apparently originated. When Britney's "Womanizer" came out only a small subset of its audience made much of a thing about the blues-swing-boogie-glam-shuffle-schaffel rhythm it used. (Or am I wrong about that, too?)
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Date: 2010-03-07 03:12 am (UTC)I didn't get a strong sense of sociomusical forward motion in the '00s, which means that hearing something now with a Destiny's Child or an Aaliyah sound (for instance) won't necessarily make me think, "Oh, that's from back then," since it won't necessarily sound as if it'd had been superseded or out of play. Or am I wrong? With dance pop in particular, very few people in the target audiences are going to give a damn one way or another what year and in what circumstances the beat and textures apparently originated. When Britney's "Womanizer" came out only a small subset of its audience made much of a thing about the blues-swing-boogie-glam-shuffle-schaffel rhythm it used. (Or am I wrong about that, too?)