If he's gonna compare "now" with "back then," and the artists he picks from "now" are Bieber & Kardashian - two of the most vapid and heavily promoted mainstrea

If he's gonna compare "now" with "back then," and the artists he picks from "now" are Bieber & Kardashian - two of the most vapid and heavily promoted mainstream household names, available by glancing at the nearest tabloid headline - then he needs to pick similarly vapid, heavily promoted, mainstream household names from back then. And there were plenty. Doesn't he remember?