Tangential but saw an interesting TikTok about how we experience music in the moment verses people discovering an artist in retrospect. In moment we evaluate music against previous works, coverage in the media, other contemporaneous stuff. But people who discover an “established” artist after the fact can just listen to a catalogue start to finish.
So for example, Radiohead most of us at the time judged albums in relationship to OK Computer. Which a lot of people view as their best, but a lot of younger people getting into them now think In Rainbows is best, since they’re free of those associations.
Obviously it’s all subjective but interesting to see how people’s perceptions of things change.
Tangentially - I never listened to Fall Out Boy when I was a teen. I was much more into metal at the time and sort of dismissed them until 2013 or so.
I listened to their newest album (at the time) in 2013 and found that I liked a lot of their songs. It wasn’t until like 2019 that I was like “Hey, didn’t they have a bunch of older songs I never paid attention to?” (Of course, I knew the hits… but nothing pre-2013 that wasn’t a single, basically.)
They recently released a new album that was inspired by their older albums (they basically said in an interview “this is the album we would’ve made if we didn’t go on hiatus”). I didn’t like it as much as I did their newer stuff, but that prompted me to actually listen to their entire discography. And yeah, I don’t like their older stuff as much as I do their newer stuff. They have a couple bops, but nothing that really grabbed my attention outside the singles I already knew about.
But I know my perspective is different from a lot of old-school fans, who love old-school Fall Out Boy.
how we experience music in the moment verses people discovering an artist in retrospect
Reminds me that one of my favorite kinds of youtube videos to binge on for a while there was reaction videos featuring African-American folk in their 20s and 30s watching/listening to rock artists I grew up hearing (especially Rage Against The Machine) for the first time.
Tangential but saw an interesting TikTok about how we experience music in the moment verses people discovering an artist in retrospect. In moment we evaluate music against previous works, coverage in the media, other contemporaneous stuff. But people who discover an “established” artist after the fact can just listen to a catalogue start to finish.
So for example, Radiohead most of us at the time judged albums in relationship to OK Computer. Which a lot of people view as their best, but a lot of younger people getting into them now think In Rainbows is best, since they’re free of those associations.
Obviously it’s all subjective but interesting to see how people’s perceptions of things change.
Or how younglings today love the SW Prequels so much when they’re shit.
I remember getting shushed in the theater cause we couldn’t stop laughing at the windu/palpatine unlimited power scene.
Ok, boomer.
Tangentially - I never listened to Fall Out Boy when I was a teen. I was much more into metal at the time and sort of dismissed them until 2013 or so.
I listened to their newest album (at the time) in 2013 and found that I liked a lot of their songs. It wasn’t until like 2019 that I was like “Hey, didn’t they have a bunch of older songs I never paid attention to?” (Of course, I knew the hits… but nothing pre-2013 that wasn’t a single, basically.)
They recently released a new album that was inspired by their older albums (they basically said in an interview “this is the album we would’ve made if we didn’t go on hiatus”). I didn’t like it as much as I did their newer stuff, but that prompted me to actually listen to their entire discography. And yeah, I don’t like their older stuff as much as I do their newer stuff. They have a couple bops, but nothing that really grabbed my attention outside the singles I already knew about.
But I know my perspective is different from a lot of old-school fans, who love old-school Fall Out Boy.
Reminds me that one of my favorite kinds of youtube videos to binge on for a while there was reaction videos featuring African-American folk in their 20s and 30s watching/listening to rock artists I grew up hearing (especially Rage Against The Machine) for the first time.
The kids are all right
It’s happening right now with Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)