<p>Kind of. She said it was “an evolution of her [own] classic sound and as something which sounded very current”. If you consider 1982 “current”…</p>
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<p>That’s true. Look at the group The Drums, for instance – 60s surf music (think Beach Boys) resurfaced. Gaga was an original for a while (think “Poker Face”, “Bad Romance”), but now she’s become just about any other top 40 female singer.</p>
<p>The world is changing both culturally and morally. Look at the current economic situation – it’s looks to become worse than the Depression. People are hungry for the comfy, economically well-off past; a new hunger for conservatism is growing (think tea Party). To innovate, though, one must look at past greats, – be it through history, films, novels, etc – learn how they reached their level of mastery, and go from there. Many Russian classical authors, upon being introduced to Western literature, copied Westerner’s styles for decades before coming out with works like The Brothers Karamazov, Uncle Vanya, and Fathers and Sons.</p>
Going to show that things started to suck in the 70s.</p>
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Everyone has inspiration and sources they draw from. Melodies were recycled back in the 60s, too. Hell, even Bob Dylan lifted the tune off an Irish rebel song, to use in his music.</p>
<p>But hey, each generation is always worse than the one immediately before it. Even though we’re always way better than the ones before that.</p>
<p>Toxic is absolutely right. We’re already gnawing away at ourselves. Think for a minute of all the people you know that ‘check in’ to places on Facebook, that have smart-phones with an integrated chip that can pinpoint their exact location, that post their lives on Facebook and Twitter. ‘At the gym! Chilling w/the boyfriend! LOL!’ Search for a familiar name, and you can come up with anything about anyone.</p>
<p>Think about the SSDI – the Social Security Death Index. Go and peruse the Social Security Numbers of anyone that died ca. 1960 or so! </p>
<p>Old newspapers and yearbooks, even current ones, are on the Internet. Anything you ever wanted to know, about anyone, ever, is on the Internet – some information is just bit harder to find than typing your search query into Google. And what about Google? You searched ‘baseball bats’ last week, and it gives you twenty related advertisements. What does Google care whether you like baseball bats in wood or in metal? Why does it – in addition to Facebook and other social networking sites – need so much information about us? Creepy, huh?</p>
<p>Things like YouTube, Facebook, Google, Apple, the video-game industry and more have and continue to shape our culture in the 00’s. The entire Western World is basically under one big culture now, and the USA is its Rome.</p>
<p>True, the culture has never been so licentious, but that has come about as a result if better birth-control (which carries implications all its own).</p>
<p>Our culture is changing, not dying. It would be horrible if our culture never changed. People say it’s bad, but they’ve always complained. Do you think everyone was happy when slavery was abolished or when all races became ‘equal’ (I use this term loosely because racism still exists and races are still discriminated against in some areas) or even when women gained the right to vote? No, and to say our culture is based off of the music we listen to is really ridiculous. I mean seriously, who cares? You can choose to listen or not listen to whatever you like, no need to complain about how much you hate it. Music is such a small part of culture.</p>
<p>If we keep going this route, our lives will be technology. Technology will have a life of its own. Our society has become obsessed with it, we want things now. With just a click of a button you will find information. Look at the print industry, its dying because of this. Less and less people are buying paper books, and are now buying e-books. Less people are buying CDs, and are buying a single song off of iTunes instead of the whole album. Less people are watching TV and going to the theaters. We get our instant fix via Netflix and YouTube. Everything has to be instant, right now. And technology does that, its turning into some addictive drug.</p>
<p>^Music is a big part of culture, it always been this way since our beginnings as human beings. It was how we told stories, how we communicate, how we forgot about our troubles. Music is vital to us, as much as water. Imagine a world with no music, just imagine how dry it would be.</p>
<p>And why is any of that a problem? You clearly have no problems using technology as you are clearly on a computer using the internet. Technology is a wonderful thing. Imagine how many people would die without the technology in modern medicine. Industries aren’t always meant to stay forever. At some point the industry of creating wooden ships died and turned to iron and steel. At some point the fossil fuel industry will die and another energy source (or many) will replace it.
I love music, but it is not that big of a part of our culture. How we communicate and interact is much bigger. How we eat and what we eat is bigger. How we live is bigger.
EDIT: Plenty of people get by without music.</p>
<p>This is just silly. The cycle of culture and counterculture has been happening for centuries. The difference is that the under-30 crowd has far more access to things that were happening before they were born, and they can use it as they wish. </p>
<p>Music stars that are stars for reasons other than musical talent are nothing new. The idea that culture is dying isn’t new.</p>
<p>Granted, our culture is dying, but from a different perspective. It’s dying from lack of our human-ness(for lack of better words). Technology has saturated our culture. Technology does have its benefits, but most of it is being used for a different reason. </p>
<p>But, I cannot say this without being a hypocrite. I’m on a computer now, typing this. Later on, I’m probably going to watch a movie on Netflix. Tech. has submerged itself into our culture, and frankly, it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop.</p>
<p>Wiscongene clearly stated what I wanted to say before.</p>
<p>The internet is our culture, its what our generation will be defined by. Yes, some may say its dying or “saturated” because of that, but every generation goes through changes. Facebook has impacted America drastically, as it has the world. </p>
<p>The thing is that we are becoming a one-cultured world. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing because there is no right or wrong in evolution. Society has become less social in the sense that we rely on our devices too much, but that doesn’t mean soon technology will rule us. Its opened us open to even more than before, so we’re able to access anything.</p>
<p>As for movies, well that’s a bit different too. The film industry has really become monopolized by just a few studios. Most of us here on CC are only exposed to the mainstream movies straight from these studios. However, we still have independent film festivals and independent films making an impact.</p>
<p>The problem is that people are connecting socializing in general with a particular method of socializing. So when technology allows for more efficient socializing, they treat it as an end to socializing rather than what it really is.</p>