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Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social |
Saw a post describing a song as "dated", which is a totally fair comment (especially on said song!), but I think a big part of my outlook on music is that "dated" often means joyfully and powerfully speaking to its moment, and this can be as or more valuable than the "timeless"
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Nate Patrin
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Getting into that whole Dap-Tone soul revival wave did a lot to sort of recalibrate my ideas about that -- it is clearly identifiable as the aesthetic of a certain era, and yet why does that aesthetic persist where other contemporaneous ones recede?
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connect_icut
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When people describe something as "dated" I always suspect they mean: "comes from an era I do not currently think is cool." In any case, I tend to think the best music achieves timelessness while still being quintessentially of its time and place. But then, I'm an old man who likes The Beatles.
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Lee Rosevere
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nothing is "dated" to me. Just as there are no guilty pleasures.
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Erik Highter
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The magic of media is that it is time travel.
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UNCOOLTWO50
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Well... It still fills floors now. One measure of timelessness. It already includes 60s Herbie Hancock, Bootsy Collins and (bang up to date) Q-Tip. In the same year, 7 songs that were covers, old or used oldies got to no.1. Including the one that blocked GIITH. It's an incredible record.
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j-e-l
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Wouldn’t you say evocative or similar if you were being nice though, dated to me says old and rubbish (though I’d probably say old and rubbish rather than dated)
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