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You don't need to go as far forward as the 90s and grunge. Rush was skewering musical sellouts at the beginning of the 80s: "For the words of the PROFITS were
by wintermutestwin 4y ago
You don't need to go as far forward as the 90s and grunge. Rush was skewering musical sellouts at the beginning of the 80s:
"For the words of the PROFITS were written on the studio walls. Echoes with the sound of salesmen, of SALESMEN (sung with the highest levels of disdain)"
- ConceptJunkie 4y agoSo was XTC, although they were never anywhere as big as Rush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnvO6lrZSxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnvO6lrZSxo
- dasil003 4y agoZappa released "We're Only in It for the Money" in 1968.
- chubot 4y agoOh sure, I think it's cyclical ... Those sentiments were around in the 60's and earlier, probably millenia earlier. When I grew up in the 90's I assumed "selling out" was just "a fact", but it turned out to be more of a temporary meme. Maybe it was a reaction to the materialistic 80's. But it's almost guaranteed to come back in some form. A good word I learned from Graeber and Wengrow's "Dawn of Humanity" is "schismogenesis": the tendency of humans to define themselves by difference from their neighbors. It explains a lot about the left/right divide, why the most vicious wars are fought between neighbors like Iran/Iraq, etc. So eventually there will be some youth culture that defines itself against "hustle" culture, etc. BTW Klosterman has also written about Rush :)